Nilfer Head Coach at Kingswood

By Shamseer Jaleel

Former Kingswood, Kandy SC and Navy SC player, Army SC, CR & FC, Sri Lanka Youth and Sri Lanka Sevens Head Coach, Nilfer Ibrahim will be back in his hometown when he takes over the Kingswood Rugby outfit as their Head Coach for 2019/2020 rugby season. Nilfer was in charge of Kingswood, Trinity, Isipathana and Joes rugby outfits at school level.

Nilfer took the Randles Hill School to a league win in 2008 and under Neil Footie’s consultancy and Nilfer Ibrahim’s coaching, Trinity won the President’s Trophy for the year 2011 under Murad Ramzeen and ended as the runner-up the following two years. At Isipathana he took them to three league titles and in 2014 they were triple champions under Nilfer. Moving on to his coaching career at Joes he took the Darley Road School to a President’s Trophy win which was the first time in their rugby history.