Former Dharmaraja College, Kandy SC, CH and FC, CR & FC, Upcountry Lions captain, Sri Lanka national sevens and fifteen a side captain cum Dharmaraja College Kandy unbeaten league rugby winning head coach Radhika Hettiarachchi has been appointed as the head coach of Nepal National men’s and the women’s rugby teams for the upcoming season by the Nepal Rugby Association (NRA) and left the island to Nepal yesterday.
This will be the second time after veteran coach Ronny Ibrahim (Head Coach of the Indian national rugby team) that a Sri Lankan coach has been assigned for an international task when most of the nations are opting for coaches from New Zealand, Australia, England and South Africa.
Radhika, one of the most esteemed coaches in the Island has been in the forefront of Dharmaraja College and mercantile teams during the recent past and has been instrumental in moulding some of Sri Lanka’s finest ruggerites.
Speaking hours before he left from the BIA Katunayake he said: “I am eternally great full to Sri Lanka Rugby president Asanga Seneviratne for getting me this job and if not for him I would have never got this opportunity in my life, so I am ones again thank full to him".
“I will do my very best for the Nepal national men’s and women’s teams in return to get them to a highest possible ranking in the Asian circuit. My first major tournament is in coming August, preparing them for the Asian seven-a-side tournament,” concluded Hettiarachchi.
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