Alex Wyllie died, the coach who reached with the Pumas the quarterfinals of the 1999 World Cup

ByDavid Mitchell
Alex Wyllie died, the coach who reached with the Pumas the quarterfinals of the 1999 World Cup

Alex Wyllie, The New Zealander who was coach of Los Pumas In the 1999 World Cup, he died this Sunday at 80 years. All rugby, in Disney+.

In his stage as a player, Wyllie played 11 tests with the All Blacks T -shirt between 1970 and 1973. Then, already as a coach, he directed Canterbury between 1982 and 1986, for in 1988 to take care of being the Head Coach of the All Blacks, a position he had until 1991.

Already in 1999, the New Zealand was selected as the coach of Los Pumas 15 days from the World Cup, after a series of disintelligence, and brought to the albiceleste team to arrive for the first time in history to the quarterfinals of a World Cup.

In that World Cup, Los Pumas reached access to the crossings by the title after three victories (against Samoa, Japan and Ireland) and a defeat in the debut against Wales, the host. Already in the quarterfinals, the Argentine team fell to France.

“For me it was a great, always a sparing, rustic guy who generated us all a great commitment. It was a rugby of another era clearly for how we trained and lived the rugby. He had a lot of the imprint that he had lived in his entire career. He was a great coach who marked us a lot at that crucial moment as the World Cup was. With his hard, direct and parco -style, he really loved the sport and transmitted us all of that.said Santiago Phelan a time ago about the Neozyle.

For Manuel Contepomi, Wyllie was the one who gave life to a generation that would later make history: “It was very important as a generation: the litter 76, 77 and 78 we had it in the tournaments of the southern hemisphere M21. We had a link in that tournament and then several took us to the major selected. We were very young and there were those who had more filming in the pumas but for us it was a bit of the continuity of the M21 at that time. A guy who wanted it very much Hosco, but he was a person who learned to understand the Argentine culture, very different from the Neo Zealand.

David Mitchell
David Mitchell

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