Darryl van der Velde, Date of Birth
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Australian rugby league footballer, coach and administrator
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About Darryl van der Velde
- Darryl van de Velde (born 3 October 1951) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, coach and administrator.
- He played club football in Queensland for Souths and represented his state on one occasion in 1977.
- After playing he coached the Brisbane Rugby League premiership's Redcliffe side in 1986 and 1987, taking his club to consecutive grand finals.
- He was then replaced by Graham Olling.Van de Velde was part of an unsuccessful syndicate to form the first New South Wales Rugby League premiership club in Queensland.
- He then embarked on a coaching career in England with Castleford in 1988, Darryl van der Velde was the coach in Castleford's 12-28 defeat by Wigan in the 1991–92 Challenge Cup Final during the 1991–92 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 2 May 1992, in front of a crowd of 77,386, before leaving in 1993.
- He moved to coach London Crusaders in 1993.
- Van de Velde then became the Chief Executive Officer of the new South Queensland Crushers club of the ARL premership.
- He later coached Huddersfield and then joined Warrington Wolves in March 1997, spending five years at the club, but he failed to win a trophy before leaving in 2001.
- He returned to Australia, and became a board member of the Queensland Rugby League in 2013.
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