Former Wales boss Warren Gatland takes advisory role with Uruguayan club
Former Wales head coach Warren Gatland is to work in a short-term advisory role with Uruguayan professional club Penarol.
Gatland left his Wales job in February after presiding over 14 successive Test defeats.
It was the New Zealander’s second spell in charge, having led Wales between 2008 and 2019 and overseen Six Nations title successes, Grand Slams and two World Cup semi-final appearances.
Gatland has linked up with Montevideo-based Penarol ahead of the Super Rugby Americas play-off finals, and will advise their coaching staff.
‘Proud’
“It was an idea that came from the Uruguayan Rugby Union, who thought big, and Penarol Rugby immediately said yes,” Penarol president Gustavo Guerra told the club’s website.
“We jumped on the bandwagon of including Warren Gatland with a view to the Super Rugby Americas finals, and it is something we are proud of.
“We will also try to make his arrival productive for all of Uruguayan rugby, and that is why we are going to organise exchange opportunities with club rugby coaches, so they can benefit from the arrival of a coach of this calibre.”
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Warren Garland isn’t a bad coach. It was the decision-makers at WRU and the certain players that failed Wales not him.
And it’s amazing to think that Uruguayan rugby is probably in a better state than Welsh rugby at the moment, a once tier-1 nation. Sobering fact. Depressing.
Gatland is still the most successful coach ever to lead Wales. I wish him well. Really I do.
He should have been brought back in a director of rugby role for a long term strategy. We’ve had Golden Era’s and then low times before, due to wars, economic depressions, pandemics etc. We still live off massive success in rugby that others will never achieve, despite being a small impoverished country. Unfortunately the 2023 Quention – Alphonsi scandal kicked the legs from under us when we were already on our knees after Covid. For this the English and others involved must have built up intense envy during the 2005-2019 era, but that is the bitter and twisted world we… Read more »