Michael Maguire (rugby league), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Australian rugby league footballer and coach
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Place of Birth: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
About Michael Maguire (rugby league)
- Michael "Madge" Maguire (born 5 February 1974) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach who is the Head coach of the Wests Tigers in the NRL, the Head Coach of New Zealand, and a former professional who played as a fullback, winger or centre in the 1990s.
- After a playing career spent mostly at the Canberra Raiders, with a brief stint with the Adelaide Rams, he became assistant coach of Melbourne Storm under Craig Bellamy and in 2009 became a head coach in the Super League with English club the Wigan Warriors.
- He was previously the head coach for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the National Rugby League. In his first year as Wigan Warriors' coach Maguire won the 2010 Super League Grand Final.
- In his second year he won the 2011 Challenge Cup and was then signed by the Rabbitohs.
- In his first year as an NRL head coach he took South Sydney deep into the 2012 finals series.
- In 2013, Souths finished the regular season in second place and in 2014 they won their first premiership in 43 years.
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