Daniel Hourcade
| Full name | Daniel Hourcade | ||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname | The Egg | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 7 June 1958 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Head Coach | ||||||||||||||||
| Current team | Argentina | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Scrum-half | ||||||||||||||||
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| 1993-2001 2001 2001-2004 2002-2003 2004-2008 2004-2006 2006-2007 2008 2008-2009 2010-2013 2010-Present 2013-Present |
Uni Tucumán Argentina U21 Argentina Sevens Huirapuca Grupo Desportivo Direito Portugal Sevens Portugal (Asst.) Portugal Women's Stade Rouennais Argentina Jaguars Pampas XV Argentina |
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Daniel Hourcade (born San Miguel de Tucumán, 1958) is an Argentine rugby union coach and former player. He is the head coach of the Argentina national rugby union team. He used to be the head coach of the Argentina Jaguars side, Argentina's A team.
He had a brief player career at the Universitario Rugby Club de Tucumán. He began his coaching career in 1993 where he worked up the coaching ranks in the Universitario Rugby Club de Tucumán side. This included a three-year tenure as the head coach of the Senior side. He left the Tucumán side to become head coach of the Argentina Under-21 side before being named head coach of the Argentina sevens side between 2001 and 2004.
Hourcade left the Argentine Rugby Union (UAR) in 2004 to take up the role of head coach of Portuguese domestic club Grupo Desportivo Direito. This role was on a par with his duties as head coach of Portugal sevens side and assistant head coach of the Portugal national side - which was his role through Portugal's first appearance in the 2007 Rugby World Cup. He finished his stint in Portugal in 2008 following his stint as head coach for the Portugal women's national rugby union team. Hourcade also had a brief stint in France when he coached Stade Rouennais in the Fédérale 2 league.
Hourcade returned to the UAR in 2010 when he became the head coach of the Argentina Jaguars, where he led the Jaguars to four consecutive championships in the Americas Rugby Championship and led the team to second in the IRB Nations Cup. He also led the team to numerous victories over test sides including a 2-0 test series win over Russia in 2010.
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