Errol Brain

Errol Brain
Full name Errol Fraser Brain
Date of birth (1968-07-21) 21 July 1968
Height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight 107 kg (236 lb)
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position No. 8
Provincial/State sides
Years Club / team Caps (points)
Counties Manukau
Super Rugby
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1996
1997–98
Blues
Chiefs
4 (5)
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1989–98 New Zealand Māori
Coaching career
Years Club / team
2010–13 Portugal

Errol Fraser Brain (born 21 July 1968) is a former New Zealand rugby union player and a current coach. He played as back-row/number 8.

Brain had more than 100 caps for Counties Manukau. He played for Auckland Blues (1996) and Waikato Chiefs (1997/98), in New Zealand, and Valence d'Agen (1993), in France. He moved to Toyota Motor Company, in Japan, where he played from 1999 to 2002.

Brain played for New Zealand Māaori, from 1989 to 1998, and was also their captain.[1]

In September 2010, he took charge as coach of Portugal, with a contract for three years. He started well, performing strongly, but his results later disappointed. He left in late March 2013 when his contract expired, with a mixed legacy of results. After returning to New Zealand Brain was travelling back and forth on and off to Japan, where he coached. However, his family's final decision was to not move to Japan but to buy a business and settle down in Tauranga. Errol and his wife Tracy bought TDDA (the drug detection agency) and soon started buying businesses around the bay.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
Tomaz Morais
Portugal National Rugby Union Coach
2010–2013
Succeeded by
Frederico Sousa
Awards
Preceded by
Robin Brooke
Tom French Memorial
Māori rugby union player of the year

1996
Succeeded by
Mark Mayerhofler
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