The Algarve University Rugby Club is in need of head coach and assistants for next season
– August 20, 2024
Based in Lagoa, the Algarve University Rugby Club (CRUAL) is looking for a new head coach and assistant coaches for its kids’ rugby team for the coming season.
The team, composed of boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 18, is looking for a new head coach who knows the game well. According to Dave Alger, the former head coach, some of the traits valued would include “patience, player skills recognition and development, development of team ethics, ability to use strength of being a trainer/coach more sympathetically and … more patience”.
Alger has been the head coach at CRUAL since 2018 and has decided to step back to focus more on club administration and player and team development. “It has been a wonderful and greatly rewarding experience to coach the boys and girls at CRUAL Lagoa, but I feel that the time is right for someone to step in with some new ideas and fresh legs and help to move CRUAL Lagoa Kids Rugby to the next level,” shared Dave Alger in a statement to the press.
Developing a fun ethic is one of the most important things, in Dave’s opinion, where kids will really enjoy learning and playing a game they’ve never seen before. This, in turn, will become the most rewarding experience for the coach, seeing the “personal development” of the kids, as well as bringing people of different nationalities together with a common ground.
As Dave shared, the ideal coach in his view will probably have played rugby at some level, but not necessarily continually, as “experience is great, but enthusiasm is just as good”.
There is also an introductory course – ‘Level One Trainers’ – that the new trainer can attend, which will provide a formal qualification.
The club has been growing over the years and has been informed that the redevelopment of the area near the Alagoas Brancas wetland will include a rugby pitch with posts, which the club hopes will spark greater local interest in the sport.
Over the last three years, Dave and the club have also participated in the government’s Summer School initiative, which has given around 700 local children a “brief introduction to rugby”, which has built momentum for the club.
For anyone interested in applying for the position of head or assistant coach, contact Dave directly at +351 962315256 or [email protected]
To learn more about CRUAL, read our feature from earlier this year on this fantastic club.
Article originally published by Michael Bruxo on Portugal Resident.
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