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http://www.foxsports.com.au/rugby/su...73761c1d6e4e4e
A LITTLE known 33-year-old from South Africa is the new Force head coach.
Sam Worthington chats with Dave Wessels, a man on a Super Rugby mission.
Foxsports.com.au: You are not particularly well known to the casual Australian rugby fan. What is your background and what made you decide to become a career coach at such a young age?
Wessels: I guess the decision was made for me because I was actually terrible as a player.
I was no chance of making it as a player.
I played in the back-row, I liked to think of myself as a good openside flanker but I was pretty terrible to be fair.
But there was something special about the game, even though I wasn’t special as a player.
There’s something that I’ve always loved about rugby and certainly in my family, rugby is a pretty big deal.
The best way for me to stay involved with it, to realise some of the dreams that I had, to be in rugby professionally, was to start coaching.
So I started coaching early on.
I started with under-9s which is more like herding cats than it was coaching.
And from there I’ve just been incredibly lucky with the people that I’ve met along the way and the people that have helped me.
I certainly wouldn’t be anywhere near where I am now without all those people’s help.