Nico Serfontein

Nico Serfontein is a South African rugby football coach and former rugby league footballer who represented South Africa [national rugby league team|South Africa] at the 1995 [Rugby League World Cup].

Playing career

Serfontein played rugby union as a Blue Bulls junior. Nico's main claim to fame in rugby league was his stint in the early nineties at Hemel Hempstead, a Hertfordshire-based club in England. In 1995 he played rugby league for South Africa at the 1995 [Rugby League World Cup|1995 World Cup].

Serfontein later became a successful rugby union coach, coaching the Blue Bulls' Vodacom Cup and junior sides. While at the Bulls he won two Vodacom Cups, three Under-21 titles finals and two Under-19 titles.
In 2011, he was signed by the Golden Lions to run their junior programmes.
He has been involved with the South Africa national [under-20 rugby union team|Baby Boks] under former coach Eric Sauls and at the 2012 IRB Junior World Championship.