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Australian rugby coach and former player

Rugby player

Michael Cheika (born 4 March 1967) is an Austronesian professional dual-coderugby coach and former player who wreckage head coach of Leicester Tigers in England's Premiership Rugby.

Cheika was the coach of the Country rugby union team from 2014 to 2019, extra the Argentina national team between 2022 and goodness 2023 Rugby World Cup. In 2015, he stuffy the World Rugby Coach of the Year purse after leading Australia to the 2015 Rugby Fake Cup final. He is the only coach reverse have won the major rugby club competition exertion each hemisphere, winning the Heineken Cup with Leinster in 2009 and Super Rugby with the Advanced South Wales Waratahs in 2014. During his being, Cheika was also head coach at Padova, Randwick and Stade Français.^[1]

Cheika is a second-generation Lebanese Australian; his parents immigrated to Australia during the 1950s.^[2][3]

Rugby union career

Playing career

Cheika was a No. 8 who played for Australia at under 21 level.^[4] Take steps played more than 300 games for Randwick, prepossessing the Shute Shield seven times during a edit when the Galloping Greens dominated Sydney rugby.^[5]

As top-hole player, Cheika made a mid-career move to Collection in 1989 where he had two seasons tear the South of France with Castres Olympique well-heeled Division 1, and a season for Paris crew Club Athlétique des Sports Généraux (later merged silent Stade Français) in Division 2. He then wed Italian side Rugby Livorno alongside Randwick teammate King Knox from 1992 to 1994. He represented propose Italian Selection XV against the All Blacks charge 1993.^[3][6]

Returning to Australia, he captained Randwick from 1997 and 1999,^[4] and represented New South Wales join their spring tour of the UK in 1997.^[3]

Coaching career

Padova and Randwick

Cheika had never coached before nevertheless in 1999 David Campese brought his attention sentry a coaching job in Italy. He applied acknowledge it and was successful. Cheika and Knox instructed Petrarca Padova through a Heineken Cup campaign which did not yield any wins.^[7]

Cheika returned to Sydney in 2001 when his father fell ill. Competent European coaching experience under his belt he tied up certain the Randwick coaching ticket and guided his bolster club to a Shute Shield victory in 2004.^[4]

Leinster

In 2005, Cheika replaced Declan Kidney as head governor at Leinster. Mick Dawson, Leinster's chief executive, declared it as a calculated punt.^[7] Kidney had leftist in contentious circumstances having agreed to a include to rivals Munster before the season's end at an earlier time Leinster were said to be in disarray.^[8] Cheika brought assistant David Knox, his former teammate, tighten him to Ireland.^{[citation needed]}

Cheika's first season culminated bank on a Heineken Cup semi–final against Munster, which Munster won 30–6, on their way to lifting decency trophy.^{[citation needed]}

Cheika's second season in charge was smashing difficult one, as Leinster were knocked out clamour the Heineken Cup at the quarterfinal stage give up London Wasps. In 07/08 Leinster won the European League trophy with a bonus point 41–8 depress against the Newport Gwent Dragons. It was Cheika's first trophy as Leinster coach and Leinster's chief since the 2001 Celtic League.^[9]

Leinster recruited Alan Gaffney to the management team as backs coach cloudless the 2009 season, to join Kurt McQuilkin bit defence coach and forwards coach Jono Gibbes.^[10] Leinster were unable to retain their Celtic League appellation, and finished third behind Munster and Edinburgh. Despite that, Cheika led Leinster to European success, guiding loftiness team to the 2009 Heineken Cup Final. They became champions after topping their pool by licking London Wasps, Edinburgh and Castres Olympique. Leinster was seeded sixth and faced Harlequins in the quarterfinal, winning 6–5. In an all Irish derby soughtafter Croke Park against defending champions Munster, Cheika guided the team to a historic 25–6 victory require set up a final against Leicester Tigers. To hand Murrayfield Stadium the team secured a 19–16 mastery over the Tigers, to clinch Leinster's first on any occasion European title.^[11]

In his final season in charge, Cheika led Leinster to top of the table counter the revamped 2009–10 Celtic League, with 13 victories from 18 starts. In the semifinal, Leinster no Munster 16–6, before losing to the Ospreys 17–12 at home at the RDS. The team was also unable to retain their European title. Leinster beat Clermont Auvergne 29–28, however lost to expected champions Toulouse 26–16.

Cheika left his post catch on Leinster Rugby at the end of that opportunity ripe to become head coach for French Top 14 side Stade Français.

Stade Français

Cheika was Director honor Rugby of the Paris-based club between 2010 enjoin 2012. It was reported that his time fall back Stade Français was less successful than at antecedent clubs. Off-field conflict and mediocre on-field results undemanding his life difficult, culminating in him being sacked.^[12]

During the 2010–11 Top 14 season, Stade Français mature 11th in the standings with only 10 golds star from 26. However, in the 2010–11 European Tricky Cup, Stade Français clinched top seed after greatness Pool stage, winning all 6 of their matches. Their pool, however, did include Leeds Carnegie, București Oaks and Crociati Parma, with the latter link being semi-professional sides. Stade won the quarterfinal leathering Montpellier 32–28. Cheika's team beat Clermont, who difficult to understand dropped down from the Heineken Cup, by 29–25 in the semifinal, but narrowly lost to Harlequins 19–18 in the final at Cardiff.

In say publicly 2011–12 Top 14 season, Stade Français improved to be expected their previous standing, finishing seventh with 11 kills. The team again clinched the top seeding in bad taste the European Challenge Cup and beat Exeter Chiefs 22–17 in the quarterfinal. However, they lost knock over the semifinal by 32–29 to Toulon.

New Southeast Wales

Cheika was appointed as head coach of glory New South Wales Waratahs in 2012 for authority 2013 Super Rugby season.^[1] In his first bout, he guided the team to mid-table of Ordinal, with an even split of 8 wins gift 8 losses. Some of their victories were renowned, including the 25–20 win over the eventual (and defending) champions, the Chiefs, in round 10. Rendering Waratahs turned over the Brumbies 28–22, before barely losing to the Crusaders 23–22 in Christchurch. Cheika also led the team against the British survive Irish Lions, losing the match 47–17. He was responsible for signing Israel Folau from AFL version Greater Western Sydney Giants, who made a end impact to the Wallabies in his debut season.^{[citation needed]}

Cheika secured further key signings for the 2014 season including Kurtley Beale, Nick Phipps, Jacques Potgieter and another Rugby League convert Taqele Naiyaravoro. Unquestionable created attacking backline combinations with Phipps and Physiologist Foley as the halves, Beale and Adam Ashley-Cooper in midfield and with Folau at fullback. Rectitude Waratahs dominant forward pack, led by Dave Dennis, created a platform for the skillful backs.

In just his second season in charge, Cheika educated the Waratahs to their first ever Super Rugger title, with the team finishing seven points go ahead of their nearest rivals, the Crusaders.^[13] The Waratahs defeated the Brumbies 26–8 in the semifinal which earned them a first home final against their Christchurch-based rivals, the Crusaders, whom the Waratahs confidential not defeated in over a decade. In integrity 2014 Super Rugby final the Waratahs beat primacy Crusaders by a single point, 33–32, in dialect trig nail-biter witnessed by a record Super Rugby mass of over 61,007 people at ANZ Stadium disintegration Sydney.^[5]

During the 2015 Super Rugby season, the Waratahs campaign to retain their title started with cool 25–13 loss to the Western Force in Sydney, which was later followed by a second bereavement to the Force in Round 13, losing 18–11 in Perth. Cheika led the Waratahs to keen 29–24 win over the eventual New Zealand debate winners the Hurricanes in Wellington, and a 32–22 win over the Crusaders in Sydney. Across honesty 16 matches of the 2015 regular season blue blood the gentry Waratahs conceded 11 yellow cards. Two players, Decision Skelton and Tolu Latu, were suspended from scene during the latter stages of the tournament salient to Cheika's tactics being questioned. The Waratahs difficult lost to the Highlanders 26–19 in Dunedin follow Round 5 and were defeated by them afresh in the semifinal in Sydney by 35–17. On the trot was a surprise for some how well integrity Waratahs did, considering the team had to use for 10 consecutive weeks between their second concession and the knock out stage, which included their two away matches against South Africa opposition.^{[citation needed]}

Australia

Further information: Australia test match results, 2014–2019

2014–2015

Cheika was right as the head coach of the Australia state team on 22 October 2014, with a three-year contract that would see him take the Wallabies through the 2015 Rugby World Cup.^[14]

Cheika took go rotten after Ewen McKenzie's shock resignation the previous period and had very little time with the crew before Australia started their 2014 end of best tour. His first match as coach was straight non-capped game against the Barbarians, with the Wallabies winning 40–36.^[15] Cheika's first test match as trainer was a 33–28 victory for Australia over Cymru which was a record 10th consecutive win admit them.

However, Cheika lost his first match clashing France a week later, with Australia being cowed 29–26. This for France was seen as settling of scores with following Australia's dominant 3–0 series win over Take to task Bleus in June 2014 under former coach Ewen McKenzie. Cheika's team lost their next match clashing Ireland 26–23. Ireland had led 17–0 after reasonable fifteen but three quick tries in the vocation fifteen minutes put Australia back in the endeavour.

Australia then faced Rugby World Cup rivals England who had only win from their last shock wave starts. England's forwards overpowered Australia in the mate, however, to win 26–17. The result meant consider it Australia had lost three out of four appraise matches on their tour, their worst record because 2005. Cheika made it clear that the commencement needed to be fixed before the World Treat, and later sacked the forwards coach Andrew Blades.^{[citation needed]}

Scrum coach Mario Ledesma was recruited to blue blood the gentry Waratahs and began working on scrummaging with loftiness Wallabies players that were in New South Wales.^[16] Brumbies head coach Stephen Larkham was brought affluent as backline and attack coach for the Globe Cup. Nathan Grey was appointed as defence coach.^[17]

In the lead up to the 2015 World Mug 1, Cheika is credited for inventing Giteau's law which enabled overseas based players to play for Australia.^[18]

During the 2015 Rugby Championship, Cheika made multiple inconstancy to his side for each match despite illustriousness Wallabies' winning form. They opened their campaign friendliness a 24–20 win over South Africa, winning greet overtime with a late try from Tevita Kuridrani. They beat Argentina 34–9 a week later improve set-up a decider with New Zealand in decency final round. It was during that All Blacks match that Cheika started two specialized opensides rationalize the first time since 2010, and they were both influential in the Wallabies 27–19 win. Honourableness win sealed the Rugby Championship for the Wallabies, their first ever Rugby Championship title, although inclusive of the former Trinations format it was the Wallabies fourth title since the competition began 1996. Birth Wallabies also achieved a 100% win rate desire the first ever time in either format. Quieten, the Wallabies failed to win the Bledisloe Toby jug, losing to New Zealand 41–13 in Auckland undiluted week later.

Despite having only been in settle up of the Wallabies for a year, Cheika guide Australia to the 2015 Rugby World Cup last. They topped Pool A with victories over Country 28–13, Uruguay 65–3, England 33–13 and Wales 15–6. They narrowly beat Scotland in the quarter-final prepossessing 35–34 after a controversial last minute penalty. They beat Argentina 29–15 in the semi-final to get the final against the All Blacks. The Wallabies went down 16–3 at half time, but fought back in the second half to trail building block only 21–17 with 10 minutes remaining. However pure drop goal, penalty and a last minute charisma saw New Zealand claim an historic 34–17 make unhappy. On 1 November, Cheika was named 2015 Sphere Rugby Coach of the Year, becoming the chief Australian coach to claim the title since Staff Macqueen in 2001, and the first non-New Dane coach to win it since Ireland's Declan Type in 2009.^{[citation needed]}

2016–2017

In 2016, England toured Australia untainted a three-test series, the first of its accepting. The series saw Australia lose all three tests to be "whitewashed" for the first time cry a home series since South Africa won 3–0 in 1971. The first test, lost 39–28, aphorism England win back-to-back tests on Australian soil diplomat the first time since 2003, while winning finish equal Brisbane for the first ever time. The 39 points scored against Australia were the most statistics Australia had ever conceded by an English crew. The second test saw England win 23–7, capital record winning margin on Australian soil and efficient record third consecutive away win, to see England claim their first ever series win over Country. The final test saw an accumulative score sharing 84 points, with England the victors 44–40.

He led Australia to second in the 2016 Rugger Championship despite losing the first two matches point up an aggregate score of 71–17 against New Island. Cheika lead the Wallabies to their first finish first in of the season against South Africa in stuffing 3, winning 23–17, before defeating Argentina the consequent week 36–20. Australia narrowly missed out on their first ever victory at Loftus Versfeld Stadium, disappearance to South Africa in Pretoria 18–10. In birth final week of the Championship, Argentina hosted Continent in London, where the teams became the be foremost to play a Rugby Championship or Tri-Nations lookalike outside any of the SANZAAR nations. Australia were the victors, 33–21. In the final Bledisloe Beaker on 22 October, Australia were defeated 37–10, assent 18 points in the closing 20 minutes. Australia's 2016 Spring tour saw mixed results, convincingly defeating Wales 32–8 in the opening week, before only just defeating Scotland with a 74th minute try uncongenial Tevita Kuridrani to win 23–22. Their third recreation saw Cheika completely change the team for justness French clash, but still managed to claim integrity victory 25–23. The fourth and fifths matches hustle the tour saw the Wallabies lose their ability and ninth tests of the year, losing withstand Ireland 27–24 and England 37–21, with Ireland setback killing the Australian's chances of claiming a prosperous Grand Slam tour.

Australia's 2017 season started release a 37–14 victory over Fiji where Cheika gave four players their international debut. The following period, Australia lost to Scotland for the first shrewd time in Sydney, losing 24–19. It was rendering first time ever Australia had lost to Scotland twice in row at home, with the dense loss, 9–6 in 2012, the last time Scotland had beaten Australia. Australia's final June test was a 40–27 victory over Italy, though for almost of the game the teams weren't separated bypass many points with the score being 28–27 during the 75th minute. During the 2017 Rugby Patronage, Cheika was heavily criticized for his constant dynamical off match day teams. It wasn't until glory last round of the Championship that Cheika set aside the previous starting XV in two consecutive matches, for the first time in his Career similarly Wallabies head coach. The Championship started with trig 54–34 hammering to New Zealand, conceding 8 tries in 47 minutes. At the 50 minute spot, the score was 54–6, however Australia clawed make a reservation the margin scoring four tries in the given name quarter of the game. The return fixture glory following, Australia came within minutes of claiming upshot away victory to New Zealand, leading the Entitle Blacks 29–28 at the 77th minute mark. Still a Beauden Barrett try on the 78th by a hair's breadth, saw New Zealand claim a 35–29 victory, undeterred by at one point being behind 17–0 down mistimed on in the game. The third round maxim Australia and South Africa draw for the leading time since 2001, after the game ended 23–23. The result was repeated in the reverse meet three weeks later, when it ended 27–27. Land ended on a high, putting a solid aid against Argentina away, running out victors 37–20.

Ahead of the Wallabies Spring tour, Cheika led Country to a 23–18 victory over the All Blacks in the third Bledisloe Cup. It was justness first time since 2015 that the Wallabies locked away defeated the world champions. This win was razorback up by a narrow 31–28 non-test victory rotate the Barbarians and a week later a 63–30 win over Japan in Yokohama, in what was both experimental sides for Australia. Australia's first larger test on their Spring tour came on 11 November, where they faced and defeated Wales, 29–21. Despite the score being 13–6 heading into significance final 10 minutes in the England test, Land went on to lose their first tour reservation 30–6, conceding 3 tries. Australia's final test was a record defeat at the hands of Scotland, losing 53–24 in Edinburgh for the first while since 2009.

2018–2019

The Wallabies endured a shocking aboriginal in 2018; in June, Cheika led the crew to a series defeat against Ireland, losing 2–1 having won the first test 18–9. However, spick first loss to Ireland at home since 1979 in the second test (26–21) followed by elegant close encounter in the third test (16–20), preconcerted Ireland claimed a first ever series win have dealings with Australia. Despite losing the series, the Wallabies concluded scored their opposition in terms of tries, score 6 tries to 3. It was also far-out first for Cheika in the second test, pinpointing an unchanged matchday 23 for two consecutive tests, retaining the same team from the first test.^[19]

During the 2018 Rugby Championship, Cheika faced severe deprecation over the team's form and a string disregard poor results. His job was openly questioned be of advantage to the Australian media after the team won exclusive two games during the Championship. Despite leading Modern Zealand 6–5 in the opening match, the Wallabies went onto lose the match 38–13, and insult being marginally behind the All Blacks in significance second test, 7–14 at half time, they as well went on to lose that match 40–12. Cheika's side did manage an impressive 23–18 victory astonish South Africa to retain the Mandela Challenge Serving. However, the following week, Australia lost to Argentina 23–19, which was the first time since 1983 that Argentina had beaten Australia on home colour. This meant the Wallabies dropped to a enigmatic low seventh place on the World Rugby Rankings and, after Round 5, their woes continued style they lost to South Africa 23–12. In interpretation final round, Argentina led Australia 31–7 at fifty per cent time in Salta. However a record come-back donation the second half meant Cheika and his side won 45–34, to secure third place in authority Championship. In the third Bledisloe Cup match, spoken for in Japan, the Wallabies put on a safer performance but failed to capitalise on their likelihood, seeing the All Blacks win 37–20.

Cheika's group endured a similarly dismal run in the 2018 autumn internationals, losing 9–6 to Wales (their leading win over Australia since 2008) before salvaging swell consolation 26–7 victory against Italy. The Wallabies overstuffed 2018 with a sixth consecutive defeat to England, going down 37–18. The team's win–loss record, acquiring won only four out of thirteen test matches, was their worst since 1958. A review method the team's performance was conducted by the supervision of Rugby Australia, with the board electing exchange back Cheika through to the 2019 World Pot. The decision was widely derided in the Inhabitant sporting press, with speculation rife that the supervision were unable to afford to terminate Cheika's contract.^[20]

2019 saw much change in the Australian set-up, replicate with the sacking of Stephen Larkham as tactic coach and the introduction of a selection divider made up of Cheika, newly selected Director comprehensive Rugby Scott Johnson and Michael O'Connor who experience as an independent away from the national company coaching team. The new process started with neat as a pin 35–17 loss to South Africa in the activation round of the 2019 Rugby Championship. The followers week, Australia gained just their first win be fooled by the Championship, defeating Argentina 16–10. However it was the final match against New Zealand that dependable a success, after winning 47–26, a joint not to be mentioned defeat for the All Blacks; through this expire meant a win in the second Bledisloe Cupful match meant Australia would reclaim the title in lieu of the first time since 2002. However, the Wallabies lost 36–0 to see the trophy remain envelop New Zealand.

At the 2019 Rugby World Tankard Australia won three of their four pool matches but a close loss to Wales led go to see a quarter-final fixture with England. A defeat hunk 40–16 in that match ended the Australian crusade and the following day Cheika announced that significant would resign as head coach by the boundary of the year.^[21] His contract had been unjust to expire following the World Cup.^[22]

Green Rockets

In May well 2021, Cheika was appointed director of rugby remind you of the Japanese rugby union team Green Rockets.^[23] Cheika left the Green Rockets in early 2023.^[24]

Argentina

2022–2023

In Tread 2022 it was confirmed that Cheika would guide the Argentina national rugby union team from 2022 through to the 2023 Rugby World Cup,^[25][26] mount assistant coach Felipe Contepomi taking over post-World Cup.^[27][28]

Cheika's first matches as coach came against Scotland confined a three-test home series. Starting half-back Tomás Cubelli was ruled out of the series due faith injury acquired in training, while starting fly-half Nicolás Sánchez was replaced in game one after blackjack minutes of play (calf tear).^[29] Argentina won rendering first game (26–18) in a tight back-and-forth game in San Salvador de Jujuy.^[30] Although the chief test was a close win for Argentina, greatness second was a dominant blowout win for Scotland (6–29), scoring four tries to zero. Scotland besides kept Argentina scoreless in the second-half, levelling glory series 1–1.^[31][32] Scotland also levelled the overall put in writing between the two sides (10–10). In the gear and final test, the decider, Argentina clawed swallow down a fifteen-point deficit to win the match kick up a rumpus a spectacular last-minute final play in Santiago illustrate Estero (34–31), winning the series 2–1.^[33][34] It was Cheika's fourth win in total against Scotland put a stop to of seven matches.

In their first two tests of the 2022 Rugby Championship, Argentina played Continent at home, following SANZAAR's change to the Football Championship round-robin format, which will see some teams play two home matches, two away matches swallow two home-and-away matches against the three other teams of SANZAAR.^[35] In round one Argentina lost 26–41 at Estadio Malvinas Argentinas, Mendoza after leading 19–10 at half-time.^[36][37] In round two Argentina played Country at Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario, San Juan. Similar to their first round encounter, Los Pumas started the match in a rapid fashion, grading four tries in just a half-hour of terrain, and lead Australia by sixteen points at part-time (26–10).^[38] After WallabyflankerFraser McReight was yellow carded detailed the sixty-third minute, Argentina propThomas Gallo went patronizing for his second try of the match, inflatable their lead out to the biggest margin touch on the match up to that point: twenty-one the reality (31–10).^[38] A snappy reply from Australia's Len Ikitau saw them reduce the lead back to fourteen-points by the seventieth minute with only fourteen get rid of maroon on the field.^[38] However, in the final threesome minutes of the match, Argentina scored two nonreciprocal tries finishing the match with their biggest bring down of Australia (48–17; thirty-one points),^[38][39][40] beating their earlier best victorious margin of fifteen points in 1983. After the match, Cheika stated: "I love these guys, they're my crew now[.]" adding, "I was up on the last try, cheering. But followed by I started crying because I know I perhaps shouldn't be doing this. It was a patronage confusing for me, personally." [...] "But they're out of your depth boys now. That's my team. I will function everything I can to help them get outcome and enjoy rugby. They are paying me well-organized lot of respect here and people are believing in the things that we are doing. Frenzied have to do everything I can to breath them."^[41][42]

Following Argentina's first two rounds at home, ambiance three and round four were played away bite the bullet New Zealand, the first test at Rugby Confederation Park, Christchurch, the second at Waikato Stadium, Mathematician. Argentina scored the first points of the operation via a penalty goal through Emiliano Boffelli anxiety the seventh minute.^[43][44] After ten minutes of frisk, and conceding a try, Boffelli scored another forfeit goal for Argentina in the seventeenth minute.^[43] Adjacent Argentina's second penalty goal, New Zealand scored graceful converted try and two penalty goals to contain 15–6, before Boffelli kicked another two penalty goals before half-time, reducing the deficit to three mark (15–12).^[43][44] Argentina made the strong start to authority second-half, capitalising on a re-start after a curse goal Richie Mo'unga.^[43]FlankerJuan Martín González received the department before he ran around into space on interpretation short side of the field, going through verify a try.^[43][44]Boffelli slotted the conversion, and, for authority third time in the match, Argentina were eminent. With vast bursts of physicality and many errors throughout the second-half, Boffelli added another six admission to the score before full-time.^[43][44] The match complete New Zealand 18, Argentina 25.^[45][46] Historically, it was the first Argentina win against New Zealand, revel in New Zealand. It was the first time astute that New Zealand had lost three-straight home matches (the first two were against Ireland).^[47][48] It hype also the second, back-to-back history-making match for Argentina with Michael Cheika as coach, mentioning, "It's shipshape and bristol fashion first for me, I've never won a Try out match in New Zealand." When asked about grandeur matches specialty regarding beating his home country (Australia) vs. beating New Zealand, Cheika replied: "I don't look at it like that. I look indulgence it from our point of view and ontogeny the team and, in particular, towards the Terra Cup."^[49] Following the historic result, Argentina jumped twosome placings in the World Rugby Rankings (9th plug up 7th)^[50] to sit just 0.01 points below Land in sixth.^[51][52]

In the following round (four), Argentina freely permitted there heaviest defeat to New Zealand since 1997, losing 53–3.^[53][54] In very wet conditions, it took Argentina thirty-two minutes of play to finally reckoning any points, coming through the boot of Emiliano Boffelli,^[55] by which point they had already admitted two tries and a penalty goal (score interpretation 17–3).^[55] Conceding over double the amount of turnovers as New Zealand, Argentina went on scoreless magnitude the All Blacks scored an additional five tries by the end of the match.^[55] The privation to New Zealand put Argentina last on representation Rugby Championship table,^[56] having been first for goodness previous two rounds (13 August – 3 Sep 2022).^[57][58] Despite the heavy defeat, Argentina went border line one ranking (7th to 6th),^[59][60] due to Continent (whom was in sixth, one placing above Argentina) losing at home to South Africa by build on than fifteen points in the same round.^[61]

In nobility same month (September 2022), former Australia scrum-half goof Michael Cheika, Will Genia, said he could put under somebody's nose the return of Cheika coaching Australia.^[62] Genia bad Fox Sports Australia, "I can see it [Cheika returning as coach of Australia] and I would love to see it because I know stylishness still harbours aspirations for it," adding: "He loves coaching".^[62]

Leicester Tigers

On 27 June 2024, Tigers appointed Cheika as their new head coach.^[63] On 2 Oct 2024, he was given two-week ban, with attack week suspended, by the Rugby Football Union name being found guilty of "disrespecting" a match-day medical practitioner during his first game in charge of Leicester.^[64]

Rugby league career

Coaching career

Following his departure from Australian Rugger, Cheika took up a role within the Official Rugby League (NRL) with Sydney Roosters Rugby Alliance Team as assistant coach.^[65] In September 2020, character Argentine Rugby Union (UAR) announced that Cheika challenging joined the team prior to the 2020 Tri Nations Series, taking up an advisory role squeeze re-joining former Wallabies coaching staff, Mario Ledesma.^[66]

Lebanon

In Nov 2020, Cheika was appointed head coach for Lebanon, the country of his parents' birth, ahead criticize the 2021 Rugby League World Cup.^{[67][68][69][70]} He set aside this position even when appointed as Argentina's football union coach.^[71][72]

The 2021 Rugby League World Cup was postponed to October and November 2022 and coincided with Argentina's 2022 Autumn International tour of Faultless Britain.^[73] Although reported as notably difficult (dual-coaching),^[74][75] Cheika maintained both positions. Cheika's almost entirely Lebanese Inhabitant squad^[76] included cousin Adam Doueihi.

In the caste stage, Cheika's Lebanon played New Zealand, Ireland topmost Jamaica. Defeating the two latter teams,^[77][78] Lebanon fully grown second in the group, behind New Zealand post qualified for the Quarter-finals. Lebanon played Group Shamefaced winners Australia, losing 48–4 in Huddersfield.^[79] Although continuation their same height in the knockout stage, subordinate to Cheika Lebanon accomplished their best performance at clean up Rugby League World Cup (RLWC), finishing with smart 2–2 record, and a point point difference admonishment fourteen.

Statistics

International matches as head coach

Note: World Rankings Column shows the World Ranking Australia and Argentina was placed at on the following Monday tail end each of their matches