Georges Coste

Georges Coste (born 7 December 1943 in Corbère-les-Cabanes) is a French rugby union coach and former player.

Georges Coste

Birth name	7 December 1943 (1943-12-07) (age 81)
Place of birth	Corbère-les-Cabanes, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitania, France
Occupation(s)	P.E. teacher
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fly-half Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) USA Perpignan () Coaching career Years Team USA Perpignan 1993-1999 Italy

Biography

Coste debuted playing as fly half in the local club U.S.A. Perpignan, and scored several caps for French junior national teams before his career was halted by a serious injury.

As a coach, he trained U.S.A. Perpignan, Frotignan and BUC (from Barcelona) clubs, and, in 1993, he replaced Bertrand Fourcade as coach of Italian national team. Under his lead Italy obtained several historical victories against Ireland (three times in 1995-1997), Scotland (1997) and France at 1995–97 FIRA Trophy, by 40-32, the later Italy's first victory against that team. These victories helped Italy to gain admittance to the Six Nations tournament starting from 2000.

Coste was fired by the Italian Federation a few months before the 1999 World Cup. Later he was assistant coach at Stade Français Paris.^{[citation needed]}

Since 2006 he is supervisor of Italy's junior national teams.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Article About Georges Coste (In Italian)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Bertrand Fourcade	Italy National Rugby Union Coach 1993–1999	Succeeded by Massimo Mascioletti