Les Cusworth

Les Cusworth is a former English rugby union footballer, coach of the winning 1993 England rugby 7s team, former assistant coach of England national rugby team and former Director of Rugby for Worcester and the national team of Argentina.

Education

He started his club career at Wakefield RFC where he set the British club record of 25 drop goals in just 21 games in the 1974–75 season and helped Wakefield reach the semi-finals of the John Player Cup in 1975–76.
He later moved to Moseley [Rugby Football Club|Moseley] and Leicester Tigers from where he won 12 England national [rugby union team|England] caps over nine years, although he was never really favoured by the English management as he was an unpredictable running fly half.
He played 365 times for Tigers scoring 947 points, and playing alongside Paul Dodge, Clive Woodward, Nick Youngs in Tigers' three-time John Player Cup winning sides between 1979 and 1981.
He also played for English Colleges, British Colleges, Yorkshire, North East Counties and played in the North Midlands team which won the county championships in 1978.

After retiring from playing, he coached an England national [rugby sevens team|England sevens] team, including Lawrence Dallaglio and Matt Dawson to an unexpected 1993 [Rugby World Cup Sevens|World Cup victory at Murrayfield in 1993].
Thereafter from 1994-1997 Les was Assistant Coach to England national rugby team, a period that included winning the Five Nations Championship twice, including a Grand Slam in 1995 and 1996.
He also served as director of rugby at Worcester RFC and the Argentina Rugby Union before working freelance and as a rugby public speaker.