Coach to Coach

Former Richmond DoR Steve Hill puts the questions to Dimitri Basilaia, the Ukraine assistant coach 

Why did you get into coaching rugby and how did you arrive at your current position?
I played 38 times for my country Georgia, including against England in the 2011 World Cup. Subsequently I played professionally for Cler mont–Ferrand, Agen, Edinburgh and Perpignan. When I moved to Kyiv four years ago I had begun to miss rugby so I got involved coaching at Rugby Club Epoch-Polytechnic. We had a successful unbeaten first season and gained promotion. The year before the invasion...