Dean Richards (born 11th July 1963), affectionately known as "Deano" is a former England rugby union union player. (Redirected from 11th July) July 11 is the 192nd day (193rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 173 days remaining. ... Template:C20YearInnTopic 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Image from a test-match between Ireland and the New Zealand All Blacks. ...

He was schooled at John Cleveland College, in Hinckley and played for Rouen in France for a year before coming to play for the Tigers. John Cleveland College (JCC) is a state comprehensive school in Hinckley, Leicestershire. ... Hinckley is a town in south-west Leicestershire, England. ... Leicester Football Club (nicknamed Leicester Tigers) is an English Rugby Union club that plays in the Guinness Premiership. ...

A big bear of a player he was one of the top number eights in the world, winning 48 England caps and six caps for the Lions on two tours. He captained the Tigers for four seasons in the early 90's. During his playing career he won the league twice and the cup three times, and was voted Whitbread's Rugby World player of the year in 1990/91. He played in the 1987, 1991 and 1995 World Cups. He led Leicester to their first Heineken Cup final against Brive, in the Old Arms Park, which they lost. A rugby union team is made up of 15 players: eight forwards, numbered from 1 to 8; and seven backs, numbered from 9 to 15. ... The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the rugby union governing body in England. ...

In 1988, after playing football with the Calcutta Cup along Princes Street in Edinburgh with Scotland's John Jeffrey, Richards received a one match ban from the Rugby Football Union. Jeffrey received a stiffer six month ban from the Scottish Rugby Union. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Calcutta Cup is a rotating trophy awarded to the winner of an annual rugby union match between the national teams of England and Scotland. ... Princes Street, as viewed facing west from the Scott Monument Princes Street and the Castle at twilight Princes Street is the main shopping street in Edinburgh city centre, although it was originally designed to be a residential street. ... For other uses, see Edinburgh (disambiguation). ... Rugby union in Scotland is administered by the Scottish Rugby Union, a founder member of the International Rugby Board in 1886 with fellow Celtic nations Ireland and Wales. ... Rugby union player. ... The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the rugby union governing body in England. ... Registered logo of Scottish Rugby Union - used with permission The Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) is the governing body of rugby union in Scotland. ...

He was dropped in favour of Irish back row forward Eric Miller, by Bob Dwyer, and is thought to be one of the contributing factors in Dwyer's sacking as coach of Tigers. Eric Miller (born on September 23, 1975 in Dublin, Republic of Ireland) was educated at Wesley College, Dublin and Loughborough University, and has played for the Leinster and Ireland rugby teams as number eight and flanker. ... Bob Dwyer (born 29 November 1940) coached Australia to victory at the 1991 Rugby Union World Cup. ...

Deano then took over and in his first full season as Director of Rugby won the Allied Dunbar Premeirship, the third time in club history. The Tigers successfully defended the title for four years in a row under him. However his crowning glory as a coach has to be the back-to-back Heineken Cups that Tigers won, defeating Stade Francais in the Parc des Princes 34-30 and beating Munster 15-9 in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium. The Heineken Cup sponsored by Heineken (known as the H Cup in France due to alcohol advertising laws) is an annual rugby union competition involving leading club, regional and provincial teams from England, France, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Italy. ... The Parc des Princes (translation: Princes Park) is a 48527 capacity stadium in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. ... Millennium Stadium The Millennium Stadium (Welsh: Stadiwm y Mileniwm) in Cardiff is the national stadium of Wales, used primarily for rugby union and football. ...

But after two trophyless seasons and a failure to get out of the pool in Europe Dean was sacked in 2004. This ended a twenty year association with the club. His former back-row team-mate and assistant coach John Wells was chosen as his successor. Dean was deeply unhappy about this and asked the club for all his memorabilia back and for the club to rename the bar which was named after him. He was later appointed coach at French club Grenoble [1], this started out well but whilst fighting relegation he suffered a players' revolt on the way to play Toulouse away as a result of claimed mismangement by the Grenoble owner. It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in... John Wells (born 12 May 1963) is a former rugby union player and captain of Leicester Tigers and presently coach for Leicester and England A. Wells was born in Driffield, Yorkshire. ... Location within France Grenoble (Occitan: Grasanòbol) is a city and commune in south-east France, situated at the foot of the Alps, at the confluence of the Drac into the Isère River. ...

He was appointed Director of Rugby for Harlequins Rugby Football Club in 2005 following their demotion from the Zurich Premiership in the 2004-05 season. The Harlequin Football Club (The Harlequins or Quins for short) is an English rugby union team who play in National Division One. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Zurich Premiership is the present name for the leading rugby union league competition for English clubs. ...

External link

• sporting-heroes.net - Dean Richards.