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Coaches Who Succeeded with Very Different Teams

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Winning once can be a matter of inheriting the right players. Winning again with a different club, a different country, a different sex or a different sport shows a method that travels. This list picks coaches with substantial success in at least two distinct settings, across football, rugby, cricket, basketball, hockey, volleyball and more. Each entry names the teams and titles, and explains what each coach changed to fit the new setting and what stayed the same.

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Eddie Jones (rugby union)

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Rugby union, Australia, Japan and England. Jones took Australia to the 2003 World Cup final, coached Japan to their famous win over South Africa at the 2015 World Cup, and led England to a Grand Slam in 2016 and the 2019 World Cup final. With Japan he built a fast, low-error game to suit smaller players; with England he used size and set piece, while his demanding, detailed preparation stayed the same.

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