Michael Cheika will link up with Springbok flyhalf Handre Pollard next season after the former Australia and Argentina coach was unveiled as the new Leicester Tigers boss.
The English Premiership club on Thursday confirmed the appointment of Cheika from the 2024/25 campaign. He joins Tigers after a two-year stint as head coach of Los Pumas, who he led to fourth place at the 2023 Rugby World Cup.
“We are very pleased to be able to appoint someone of Michael’s experience and history with success to the role of head coach,” Leicester Tigers CEO Andrea Pinchen said. “We want that, we need that and believe Michael is the right person to take this team, this club back to where we know we should be.”On his appointment, Cheika added: “Honestly, I wasn’t looking at the Premiership and didn’t have the desire to coach in it until Leicester Tigers came to me. But, the opportunity to coach at Tigers and lead this group of players turned my head.”
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