GARY GOLD

In 2017, Gold was appointed to be the USA Rugby Men's XV Head Coach, an appointment that will lead the team into the participation in the Rugby World Cup in 2019 to be staged in Japan. In his first competition, Gold’s USA Men's XV team won America’s Rugby Championship, by beating all 5 other teams in the competition and being the first team since the inauguration of the competition to win the ARC Championship by attaining a clean sweep of victories in the championship.

 

Gold lives by his mantra of getting the best out of his players, both on and off the field as a Coach and mentor. He has been successful in discussing and presenting his philosophy of “Sport and business” and draws the analogy between these two. “As South Africans, our mood is dictated by our teams winning over the weekend and lifting the nation.” His years of Managing and Coaching Rugby at the highest level have made Gold an inspirational leader and an accomplished motivational speaker.