Les Cusworth is a former English rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 footballer and current Argentine Director of Rugby.

Education

He was educated at Normanton Grammar School

Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...

 and the West Midlands Teacher Training college.

Playing career

He started his club career at Wakefield RFC

Wakefield RFC

Wakefield RFC was an English rugby union club, founded in 1901, and which dropped out of the English leagues in 2004 as a result of the effects of professionalism...

 where he set the British club record holder of 25 drop goals in just 21 games in 1974/75 and helped Wakefield reach the semi finals of the John Player Cup in 1975/76.

He later moved to Moseley

Moseley Rugby Football Club

Moseley Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union club, based at Billesley Common in Birmingham, that competes in the RFU Championship. The club was historically the premier rugby club in Birmingham, reaching the final of the John Player Cup three times in the late 1970s and early 1980s...

 and Leicester Tigers

Leicester Tigers

Leicester Tigers is an English rugby union club that plays in the Aviva Premiership.Leicester are the most successful English club since the introduction of league rugby in 1987, a record 9 times English champions - 3 more than either Bath or Wasps, the last of which was in 2010...

 from where he won 12 England caps over 9 years (1979–1988) although he was never really favoured by the English management as he was an unpredictable running fly half.

He played 365 times for Tigers

Leicester Tigers

Leicester Tigers is an English rugby union club that plays in the Aviva Premiership.Leicester are the most successful English club since the introduction of league rugby in 1987, a record 9 times English champions - 3 more than either Bath or Wasps, the last of which was in 2010...

 scoring 947 points, and playing alongside the likes of Paul Dodge

Paul Dodge

Paul William Dodge is a former English rugby union international footballer who gained 32 caps for his country between 1978 and 1985. His Leicester Tigers career earned him 436 appearances....

, Clive Woodward

Clive Woodward

Sir Clive Ronald Woodward OBE is an English former rugby union player and coach. He was coach of the team from 1997 to 2004, managing them to victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup. He is currently the British Olympic Association's Director of Elite Performance.-Early life:Woodward was born in Ely...

, Nick Youngs

Nick Youngs

Nicholas Gerald Youngs is a former English rugby union footballer who played for Leicester Tigers and England, at scrum-half, gaining six England caps in 1983-1984...

 in Tigers' three-time John Player cup winning side 1979-1981.

He also played for English Colleges, British Colleges, Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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, North East Counties and played in the North Midlands team which won the county championships in 1978.

After retirement

After retiring from playing, he coached an England sevens

England national rugby union team (sevens)

The English national rugby union sevens team compete in the World Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens and the Commonwealth Games.-Honours:* 1973 International Seven-A-Side Tournament - Winners* Rugby World Cup Sevens Winners 1993* Hong Kong Sevens Winners 2002* Hong Kong Sevens Winners 2003*...

 team including Lawrence Dallaglio

Lawrence Dallaglio

Lorenzo Bruno Nero "Lawrence" Dallaglio, OBE is a retired English rugby union player and former captain of the English national team. He played as a flanker or number eight for London Wasps and never played for another club, having arrived at Sudbury as a teenager...

 and Matt Dawson

Matt Dawson

Matthew James Sutherland "Daws" Dawson, MBE is a retired English rugby union player who played scrum half for Wasps and Northampton Saints. During his international career he toured with the British and Irish Lions three times and was part of England's 2003 Rugby World Cup winning side...

 to an unexpected World Cup victory at Murrayfield in 1993

1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens

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.

He was director of rugby at Worcester RFC

Worcester Rugby

The Worcester Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union club; the first team use the nickname Warriors. The club's first team will play the 2011–12 season in the Premiership, after being promoted from the RFU Championship. They have also competed in the Anglo-Welsh Cup, European Rugby...

 before working freelance and as a rugby Speaker

Public speaking

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  before taking over as Director of Rugby at the Argentina Rugby Union.