{"id":185982,"date":"2025-12-16T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/185982\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T05:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:30:07","slug":"rugby-warren-gatland-linked-with-vacant-georgia-coaching-role-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/185982\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby: Warren Gatland linked with vacant Georgia coaching role \u2013 reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cockerill cited a difference of opinion with Georgia Rugby Union (GRU) president Davit Kacharava as an underlying factor behind him stepping down.<\/p>\n

Gatland isn\u2019t the only coach in consideration with Midi Olympique reporting the GRU is pursuing former Perpignan coach Franck Az\u00e9ma, although it adds a \u201cNew Zealand coach is also under consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since leaving Wales<\/a>, Gatland has worked in an advisory role with Uruguay\u2019s professional club side Penarol for the Super Rugby Americas.<\/p>\n

Last month, The Rugby Paper reported Gatland was considering taking up a similar role with Los Teros through to the World Cup.<\/p>\n

He was one of Wales\u2019 most successful and longest-serving coaches during his first 12-year spell in charge, when he recorded 70 wins in 125 games and led them to two grand slams and two World Cup semi-finals between 2007 and 2019.<\/p>\n

He also coached the British & Irish Lions in 2013 and 2017<\/a> during this time, the latter ending in a drawn series against the All Blacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gatland then coached the Chiefs before moving into a director of rugby role and then being recruited back to Wales, where he recorded six wins and 20 defeats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cockerill cited a difference of opinion with Georgia Rugby Union (GRU) president Davit Kacharava as an underlying factor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1558,49722,117261,13742,1019,7055,111,139,69,766,1527,205,6327,213,38533,6656,102],"class_list":["post-185982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-been","tag-coaching","tag-gatland","tag-georgia","tag-international","tag-linked","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-reports","tag-return","tag-role","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-vacant","tag-warren","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}