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Full name | Nicolas Serfontein | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born | South Africa | 16 October 1968|||||||||||||||||||||
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Nico Serfontein is a South African rugby football coach and former rugby league footballer who represented South Africa at the 1995 Rugby League World Cup.
Serfontein played rugby union as a Blue Bulls junior. Nico's main claim to fame in rugby league was his stint in the early nineties at Hemel Hempstead, a Hertfordshire-based club in England. In 1995 he played rugby league for South Africa at the 1995 World Cup.[1]
Serfontein later became a successful rugby union coach, coaching the Blue Bulls' Vodacom Cup and junior sides.[2] While at the Bulls he won two Vodacom Cups, three Under-21 titles finals and two Under-19 titles.[3]
In 2011, he was signed by the Golden Lions to run their junior programmes.[4]
He has been involved with the Baby Boks under former coach Eric Sauls and at the 2012 IRB Junior World Championship.[5]