Lawrence Dallaglio

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Lawrence Dallaglio
Lawrence Dallaglio 2006.jpg
Player information
Full name Lawrence Bruno Nero Dallaglio
birthday August 10, 1972
place of birth London , England
society
society Career ended
position Flanker , number eight
Clubs as active
Years society Games (points)
1990-2008 London Wasps 339 (248)
National team
Years National team Games (points)
1995-2007 England 85 (85)
1997, 2001, 2005 British and Irish Lions 3 (0)

Status: May 31, 2008
National team October 20, 2007

Lawrence Bruno Nero Dallaglio MBE (born August 10, 1972 in London ) is a former English rugby union player and was the captain of the English national team . He played in the positions of flanker and number eight . He was active for the London Wasps club for 18 years .

Dallaglio was one of the key players in the national team that won the 2003 World Cup title. He had already announced his resignation in 2004, but changed his mind after being nominated for the British and Irish Lions the following year and played actively until the end of the 2007-08 season. After his playing career, he set himself the goal of a coaching career.

Career

Dallaglio was born in 1972 in Shepherd's Bush, London, to an English mother and an Italian father. Dallaglio was part of the national team in rugby 7 , which won the title at the first world championships in 1993 . Although he was not part of the regular formation at his club, he was nominated in 1994 for the tour of the English to South Africa, but was not used. He played his first international match in November 1995 when he was substituted on for the Springboks . In the same year he was named captain of the Wasps after numerous departures of important players and led the team to win the English championship the following season. In 1997 he was also national team captain and nominated for the British and Irish Lions . Together with Neil Back and Richard Hill he made in the late 1990s, a strong trio, also known as Holy Trinity ( Holy Trinity ) was known.

The drug scandal

On May 24, 1999, Dallaglio resigned as captain of England's national team following a report in the News of the World tabloid accusing him of using and trafficking drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy . The incidents described are said to have taken place at the beginning of the 1990s. As the newspaper reported, Dallaglio is said to have spoken about his drug past on the Lions' 1997 tour to South Africa in a smaller community. Dallaglio himself subsequently denied all the allegations raised. Martin Johnson succeeded him as captain.

2000-2005

In 2000, Dallaglio led the London Wasps to win the Tetley's Bitter Cup . In the following year he was again part of the squad of the British and Irish Lions, but injured himself shortly before the end of the regular season and thus before the start of the Lions tour. Although he was able to travel to Australia , his injury broke up again in a test match, so that he did not make an official international match.

Dallaglio with the Webb Ellis Cup

Dallaglio was one of the most important players in the English national team, which dominated all competitions in 2003 and was able to win the Grand Slam at the Six Nations as well as the title at the World Cup for the first time. He was the only player in the squad who completed the full 80 minutes in all games. With Martin Johnson's retirement he was reappointed team captain. Without Johnson, however, the team played disappointingly after the World Cup. In the wake of this development, Dallaglio announced his retirement from international rugby in August 2004. Despite this decision, he was again considered for the tour of the British and Irish Lions in 2005. In the first game against a selection of New Zealand's Bay of Plenty region, however, he was injured and was canceled for the rest of the tour.

2006-2008

At the end of the year, Dallaglio announced that he was again available for the English national team and was promptly nominated for the Six Nations 2006 . During the tournament he came to four appearances as a substitute. The season with the Wasps was initially unsuccessful, because the Londoners missed the play-offs in the Premiership for the first time . However, they reached the final of the Heineken Cup , where they met the Leicester Tigers , who had already won the EDF Energy Cup and the English championship this season. However, the Wasps managed to forget the average performances of the year and win the final 25: 9.

Dallaglio was nominated for the England squad for the 2007 World Cup . In the first game, which England struggled to win 28:10 against the USA , he was on the starting line-up. In the 0:36 defeat against South Africa, he first had to go to the bench. Nick Easter replaced him and remained in the regular lineup until the end of the tournament. Dallaglio was often substituted on and played an important role for the team. In the end, England reached the final again, but had to admit defeat to the Springboks.

After the World Cup, like Mike Catt, he published an autobiography in which he criticized coach Brian Ashton for his leadership style:

"Head coach of the England team demands management skills that Brian does not have. We had a head coach who wanted one thing, other coaches who wanted other things. The players hadn't a clue what was going on. "
( "Being national coach for the English team requires managerial skills that Brian doesn't have. We had a head coach who wanted one thing and other coaches who wanted something else. The players had no idea what was going on.")

He later apologized for the badly chosen timing, but not for the content of his testimony. He continued to be one of Ashton's harshest critics. After the World Cup, he ended his international career and announced that he would remain active with the London Wasps until the end of the 2008 season. He played his last game on May 31, 2008, when the Wasps won the championship final against the Leicester Tigers .

Private life

In 1985, Dallaglio was a member of the King's House School choir. This choir was responsible for the backing vocals for Tina Turner's number 1 hit “ We Don't Need Another Hero ” . This only became known 20 years later, when a union went looking for the choir members at the time, as they had not received any royalties . It also became so well known that he had sung with the choir on a birthday of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber .

Since Dallaglio's father Vincenzo is Italian and his mother Irish, he had the opportunity at the beginning of his career to compete in rugby union for these two nations. However, he declined an offer from the Irish Association.

His sister Francesca died at the age of 19 after an accident between two ships on the Thames ( Marchioness disaster ). Dallaglio is involved in the charity "Wooden Spoon", which cares for disadvantaged children and young people in Great Britain and Ireland . He is a supporter of the London football club Chelsea FC .

successes

Wasps

England

Lions

  • 1997, 2001 and 2005

literature

  • Lawrence Dallaglio: It's in the Blood: My Life. Headline Book Publishing, ISBN 0-7553-1573-1 .
  • Lawrence Dallaglio: Dallaglio on Rugby: Know the Modern Game. Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 0-340-71839-0 .

Web links

Commons : Lawrence Dallaglio  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/lawrence-dallaglio-there-was-not-a-tremendous-amount-of-planning-into-what-to-do-once -wed-won-it-401329.html
  2. ^ Daily Telegraph: Dallaglio facing RFU showdown
  3. ↑ Daily Telegraph: Dallaglio quits over 'set-up'
  4. ^ Daily Telegraph: Dallaglio is front runner in England captaincy stakes
  5. ↑ BBC: Dallaglio slams Ashton's approach
  6. ↑ Planet Rugby: Dallaglio signs off in style
  7. ^ Daily Telegraph: Dallaglio: my secret life as Tina Turner's backing vocalist
  8. ^ The Independent: Lawrence Dallaglio: 'There was not a tremendous amount of planning into what to do once we'd won it'
personal data
SURNAME Dallaglio, Lawrence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dallaglio, Lorenzo Bruno Nero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English rugby union player
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England