{"id":501343,"date":"2026-02-24T16:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501343\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:59:11","slug":"urc-cardiff-coach-van-zyl-holds-talks-with-benetton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501343\/","title":{"rendered":"URC: Cardiff coach Van Zyl holds talks with Benetton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff coach Corniel van Zyl has confirmed he has held talks with Benetton about a return to Treviso &#8211; but stresses he would like to stay at the Arms Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The South African has been calling the shots for Cardiff in 2025-26 after Matt Sherratt left on the eve of the season for a job with Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">United Rugby Championship (URC) rivals Benetton are in the market for a new head coach for next season because Calum MacRae is leaving for family reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is reported Van Zyl, who played for the Italians, has been interviewed for the top job along with former Springboks boss Jake White.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s probably not true that I have had an interview with them but I have had conversations with people at the club,&#8221; said Van Zyl, who is under contract for another season in his official Cardiff role as forwards coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not my decision to stay on in the future and ultimately you need to look after yourself and your family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I love Cardiff, I don&#8217;t want to move anywhere else at this moment in time so we will see what happens. Hopefully I will have more clarity soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardiff coach Corniel van Zyl has confirmed he has held talks with Benetton about a return to Treviso&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-501343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}