Nikolai Vladimirovich Nerush (born July 24, 1960 in Staraya Kupavna ) is a rugby player and rugby coach, honored coach of Russia [1] , and a mentor at the VVA-Moscow Region rugby club from 1991 to 2019. The first coach to lead the Russian national team to the Rugby World Cup .
 Nikolay Nerush | ||
| general information | ||
| Full name | Nikolai Vladimirovich Nerush | |
| Date of Birth | July 24, 1960 (59 years old) | |
| Place of Birth | Old Kupavna , Moscow Region , RSFSR , USSR | |
| Citizenship |  Russia | |
| Club Information | ||
| Club | VVA-Moscow region | |
| Position | Main coach | |
| Career | ||
| Club career * | ||
 VVA them. Yu. A. Gagarina | ||
| National team** | ||
| the USSR | ||
| Coaching career | ||
| 1991—2019 | VVA-Moscow region | |
| 1993-2005 | Russia (rugby 7) | |
| 2008—2011 | Russia | |
* The number of games and points for a professional club is considered for the national league, Heineken Cup and Super Rugby. ** The number of games and points for the national team in official matches. | ||
| Awards | ||
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Biography
In the USSR championship he played for the team “VVA im. Yu. A. Gagarin ”(Monino). He graduated in 1987 from the Moscow State Academy of Physical Culture (MGAFK) [2] .
Coaching career began in 1980 [3] . Since 1991, the permanent coach of VVA-Moscow Region, with whom he won the Russian Championship and the Cup of Russia 8 times. In 1993-2005, he was a coach of the Russian national rugby 7 team , which in 2001 played for the first time at the World Cup [3] (in particular, he led it in 2000 at a tournament in Hong Kong [4] ). In 1992, he also led the USSR national team in one of the matches against Belgium [5] .
Coaching Nerush in the team was offered even before the arrival of the Frenchman Claude Sorel [3] . However, he headed it only in 2008, and for the first time he qualified for the World Cup - the team debuted in 2011 at the largest international rugby tournament [6] . The team lost all 4 matches, bringing in at the same time 8 attempts (a record for a debutant), and Nerush resigned [7] .
Since February 3, 2016 he is the head of the coaching council of the Russian Rugby Federation [8] [9] .
Notes
- ↑ Broke off the horns about the VVA team (Russian)
- ↑ Profile on the website of the Rugby Federation of Russia (Russian)
- ↑ 1 2 3 Patriot // Big sport No. 6-8 (34) Summer 2009 (Russian)
- ↑ World Sevens Series Hong Kong Sevens 2001
- ↑ Nikolai Nerush: “Rugby is an ideal substitute for war” (Russian)
- ↑ Rugby. Russian national team debuts at the World Cup (rus.)
- ↑ Head coach of the Russian national team Nikolay Nerush resigned (Rus.)
- ↑ Nikolai Nerush: “The development of rugby in Russia is determined by the quality of the performance of the national teams” (inaccessible link) (Russian)
- ↑ Nikolai Nerush headed the coaching council of the Rugby Federation of Russia (Rus.)