Johan Diergaardt is a Namibian rugby union coach. He was coach of Western Suburbs Premier League Namibian team and chairman of the national selectors committee. He was nominated head coach of

Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...

, in February 2008. Diergaardt achieved the third qualification in a row of Namibia for the

2011 Rugby World Cup The 2011 Rugby World Cup was the seventh Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. The International Rugby Board (IRB) selected New Zealand as the host country in preference to Japan and South Af ...

. He also won for the first time the

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of 2010, in

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. Namibia disappointed at the 2011 Rugby World Cup finals, losing once again all the four matches.

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John Diergaardt Nomination as Head Coach of Namibia (February 2008)
Year of birth missing (living people) Namibian rugby union coaches White Namibian people Living people {{Namibia-rugbyunion-bio-stub