# Vunipola exploring life after rugby with coaching role

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/vunipola-exploring-life-after-rugby-with-coaching-role/
- Published: 2026-11-13T15:59:06+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-13T18:54:57+00:00
- Original publisher: BBC Sport (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/cj7526lz35x9o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
- Topics: Sport, UK, World

## Key points

- Vunipola is exploring coaching while still playing for Leicester.
- He has made six appearances this season.
- His experience is already helping the club’s women players.

## Summary

Mako Vunipola is combining his playing role at Leicester Tigers with coaching the club’s women’s side as he prepares for life after rugby. The 35-year-old says the short span of a playing career prompted him to explore coaching when Leicester recruited him, and the experience is helping him learn what the job involves.

Vunipola had planned to retire before returning to English rugby after two years with French club Vannes. He has made six appearances for Leicester this season, with the men’s team top of the early Premiership table, while also assisting the women’s staff ahead of their season. His playing career includes four Premiership titles, three European Champions Cup winners’ medals and 79 England caps; Leicester prop Ellie Smith says his coaching has improved her scrummaging.

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