Gareth Edwards
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Sir Gareth Owen Edwards, CBE (born 12 July 1947) is a Welsh former rugby union player who played scrum-half and has been described by the BBC as "arguably the greatest player ever to don a Welsh jersey".In 2003, in a poll of international rugby players conducted by Rugby World magazine, Edwards was declared the greatest player of all time.
In 2007, former England captain Will Carling published his list of the '50 Greatest Rugby players' in The Daily Telegraph, and ranked Edwards the greatest player ever, stating; "He was a supreme athlete with supreme skills, the complete package.
He played in the 1970s, but, if he played now, he would still be the best.
He was outstanding at running, passing, kicking and reading the game.
He sits astride the whole of rugby as the ultimate athlete on the pitch".Edwards was prominent in the Welsh national team that was to the fore in European rugby in the '60s and '70s.
He is one of a small group of Welsh players to have won three Grand Slams including Alun Wyn Jones, Ryan Jones, Adam Jones, Gethin Jenkins, Gerald Davies and J. P.
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Williams.In the 2007 New Year Honours, Edwards became a CBE for services to sport. He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 2015, for services to sport and for charitable services.
Early life
Edwards was born a miner's son in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Glamorgan, Wales. He attended Pontardawe Technical School for Boys (now Cwmtawe Community School), where he was taken under the wing of sports teacher Bill Samuels.
He won a scholarship to the elite Millfield Public School in Somerset. Apart from rugby, Edwards showed promise in a wide range of sports, playing for West Wales Youth soccer team, and signing for Swansea Town at the age of 16. He also showed prowess in gymnastics and athletics.
Playing career
Edwards gained his first international cap for Wales against France in Paris on April 1, 1967 at the age of 19. Wales lost 20-14 to eventual champions France, who took the trophies. Edwards earned 53 caps for Wales, with 13 of them as captain between 1967 and 1978, including 13 as captain. Both his caps were won in succession; he never had a dip in form or an injury that would cause him to play for another. In internationals, he had scored twenty times.
Edwards is Wales' youngest ever captain, first taking the captaincy against Scotland at the age of 20 in February 1968 – a game in which the Welsh side defeated 5–0. Edwards was very fortunate to work with two of the best outside halves the game has ever seen: Barry John and Phil Bennett. Edwards and his clubmate Barry John Johnston were inseparable in the early stages of his career, with each knowing what the other was doing. During his time as king of Wales, the Welsh side dominated the Five Nations Championship, winning the title seven times, with three grand slams in between. Edwards was named Player of the Year in Wales in 1969.
Edwards was named Sports Personality of the Year in 1974. He continued his success by receiving an MBE in 1975.
In 1976, when Eamonn Andrews surprised him, he was the subject of This Is Your Life.
Edwards' long-serving international career came to an end on March 18th, 1978, in the same way he had begun – against France in the Five Nations Championship. Edwards finished 16–7 on his debut at Arms Park in Cardiff in front of a home crowd. Wales also won the Grand Slam and a third straight crown, a record, considering that no team had ever won it more than twice in a row. He was named Player of the Year 1978 in honor of his contributions.
Edwards appeared ten times for the British and Irish Lions, as the only such team to win a series in New Zealand, as well as the unbeaten 1974 side in South Africa.
He made his Cardiff RFC debut against Coventry on September 17th, 1966, and he spent 12 seasons for Cardiff, scoring 69 goals in 195 games.
Edwards worked for Cardiff College, Wales Secondary Schools, East Wales, Barbarians, Wolfhounds, and India's President XV, who was first Wales and Wales on tour in Cyprus 1972, first Wales Sevens team SRU centenary, 1972, and the RAF (though not in the Services) in Zimbabwe.
Post-playing career
He was branded a "professional" in his autobiography and was temporarily banned from teaching or being involved in any way with the rugby union.
Edwards, a footballer and England footballer, appeared on A Question of Sport from 1978 to 1982, alongside Liverpool and England footballer Emlyn Hughes.
Edwards was one of the first fifteen players inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame in 1997, alongside (among others) former playing partners Barry John and JPR Williams. He is also the subject of a plaque in the Rugby Pathway of Fame in Warwickshire, which is regarded as the home of the sport.
Edwards was named the "Best Welsh Player of all time" at a rugby dinner hosted by the 'Welsh Rugby Former International Players' Association' and First Press Events corporation on November 21, 2001. On Sunday, voting took place via the Western Mail, South Wales Echo, Wales, and Wales, as well as the nine Celtic Press titles. A team of experts and a 'crowd' of nearly 1,000 people packed into the CIA to find who had the 'Greatest' votes, and the public votes were then sifted to reveal who were the 'Greatest'.
Edwards was named the greatest player of all time in a survey of international rugby players conducted in 2003 by Rugby World magazine. Edwards has admitted that All Black scrum-half Sid Going most likely got the better of him over their seven encounters, "as I said, he was the best I ever played against and he certainly had the edge on me in the games we played." Edwards claims that Going behind may have helped, "I wouldn't have minded playing with the back row the All Blacks had...then Sid may not have come out on top." He now speaks out for the BBC and S4C, focusing on the latter's Welsh, his mother tongue, and being one of many people to have appeared in the S4C game Rygbi a Mwy. He is also a director of the Cardiff Blues region, as the head of Mercedes dealership Euro Commercials Ltd., and President of Cardiff Institute for the Blind. Gareth Edwards' sculpture in Cardiff's St David' Centre stands.
He set a new British angling record when he landed a pike weighing 45 lb 6oz at Llandegfed Reservoir near Pontypool in 1990. Edwards held the record for two years. He also enjoys shooting game-birds. Edwards was patron of The Richard Hunt Foundation and was named a Patron of The Jaguar Academy of Sport in 2010.
Edwards was one of 200 public figures in August 2014 who had signed up to a letter from The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to the referendum in September.
He appeared in the BBC Series Gareth Edwards' Great Welsh Adventure in 2019. He and his wife Maureen appeared in the BBC Series Great Welsh Adventure in 2019. In 2021, the program returned for its second series.