Former Wales captain Kingsley Jones named Canadian men’s rugby coach
TORONTO — Kingsley Jones remembers taking Russia to Tbilisi to play Georgia in 2012, the first time the Russian rugby team had been there since the invasion of South Ossettia in 2008.
“To go to a ground with 60,000 people (inside), 20,000 people outside. Rockets, flares. I thought Australia-New Zealand was rivalry and England-Wales was rivalry,” said the 48-year-old Welsh coach, whose team lost 46-0 that day.
The former Welsh international flanker, who won 10 caps between 1996 and 1998 and captained his country once, finds himself facing another daunting task in his new role as head coach of Canada’s men’s 15s rugby program.
“I’m all about challenges and different experiences,” he told a media conference call Thursday.