Eddie Jones is about to be reappointed as the pinnacle coach of Japan’s nationwide rugby staff pending approval from the union’s board, native media reported Sunday, lower than two months after he walked out on the Wallabies.
The 63-year-old Australian has been strongly linked with a return to the Japanese staff that he led to a historic win over South Africa on the 2015 World Cup in England.
Local media reported that Jones was efficiently interviewed by the Japan Rugby Football Union on Thursday in Tokyo.
His reappointment is about to develop into official pending approval from the union’s board on Wednesday, sports activities newspapers together with Sponichi stated.
The position Jones performed in steering Japan to the beautiful 2015 victory over South Africa — in a match remembered as “Miracle of Brighton — made him the perennial favorite on the JRFU record of candidates.
Jones’s spouse is Japanese and lives within the nation. His mom is Japanese-American.
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Other names beforehand floated as Japan’s potential subsequent head coach included South African Frans Ludeke, who coached Kubota Spears to final season’s Japanese membership title.
Jones’s success with Japan from 2012 to 2015 helped land him the job as coach of England, who he took to the 2019 World Cup closing and eventual defeat by South Africa.
Jones was fired by England final December having gained simply 5 of 13 Tests in 2022.
He was employed by Australia in January however stop in October after two wins from 9 Tests, together with a worst-ever World Cup efficiency the place the Wallabies did not make it out of the pool section.
Jones repeatedly denied hyperlinks with the Japan position, each throughout and after his time answerable for the Wallabies.
Source web site: www.foxsports.com.au
