Bertrand Fourcade

Bertrand Fourcade (born Laloubère, 27 December 1942) is a former French rugby union player, a current coach and a sports director. He played as a fullback.

Fourcade has an average career as a player for FC Lourdes, where he won the French Championship, in 1967/68, and Stade Toulousain, never being capped for France.

He was more successful as a coach. He was in charge of FC Lourdes, when he was invited to become the coach of Italy, in 1989. He would be the coach of the Italian squad until 1993. During the 1991 Rugby World Cup, he achieved a win over the United States (30-9), but was eliminated after the 1st round.

He was the coach of the France Universities national team, from 1996 to 2000.

Fourcade moved once more to Italy, where he would coach Unione Rugby Capitolina, from 2003/04 to 2004/05. He returned then to France, where he coached FC Lourdes, in 2008/09.

References

External links

Bertrand Fourcade Player Statistics

Sporting positions
Preceded by Loreto Cucchiarelli	Italy National Rugby Union Coach 1989–1993	Succeeded by Georges Coste

Italy squad – 1991 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Bottacchiari Checchinato Colella Croci Mas. Cuttitta Favaro Giovanelli Grespan Orlandi Pivetta Properzi Rossi Saetti Zanon (c)

Backs	Barba Bonomi Bordon Mar. Cuttitta Domínguez Francescato Gaetaniello Pietrosanti Tebaldi Troiani Vaccari Venturi

Coach	Fourcade

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, January 19, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.