From footballer to rugby coach extraordinaire

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The Panthers Rugby team coached by Laurie Adonis is coming off back-to-back title wins after winning the GRFU and Trophy Stalls Sevens tournaments.
The Panthers Rugby team coached by Laurie Adonis is coming off back-to-back title wins after winning the GRFU and Trophy Stalls Sevens tournaments.

By Noelle Smith

 

Laurie Adonis is a top notch rugby coach, one of the bets in the country.

But had it not been for the influence of his brother, Noel, Adonis’s talents might have been lost to rugby.

You see Laurie Adonis started out like so many youths, playing football, or soccer as it is otherwise known.

Then his brother Noel, a former national rugby player himself, past president of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) and a former Vice President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), stepped in.