Johan Diergaardt
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Johan Diergaardt is a Namibian rugby union coach.
He was coach of Western Suburbs Premier League Namibian team and chairman of the national selectors committee. He was nominated head coach of Namibia
, in February 2008.
Diergaardt achieved the third qualification in a row of Namibia for the 2011 Rugby World Cup
. He also won for the first time the IRB Nations Cup of 2010, in Romania
.
He was coach of Western Suburbs Premier League Namibian team and chairman of the national selectors committee. He was nominated head coach of Namibia
Namibia national rugby union team
The Namibian rugby union team, nicknamed the Welwitschias or Biltongboere, represents Namibia at rugby union. Although they are a tier-three nation in the International Rugby Board tier system, the team have participated in all three Rugby World Cup competitions since their first appearance in 1999...
, in February 2008.
Diergaardt achieved the third qualification in a row of Namibia for the 2011 Rugby World Cup
2011 Rugby World Cup
The 2011 Rugby World Cup was the seventh Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. The International Rugby Board selected New Zealand as the host country in preference to Japan and South Africa at a meeting in Dublin on 17 November 2005...
. He also won for the first time the IRB Nations Cup of 2010, in Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
.