Former Australia Coach Eddie Jones in Intensive Care After Suffering Stroke

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Published: October 16, 2013

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Japan head coach Eddie Jones is in intensive care in Tokyo after suffering a stroke, the Guardian reports.

Jones, who has previously coached Australia and assisted former South Africa head coach Jake White to a World Cup triumph in 2007, reportedly complained of a headache following a training camp on Tuesday night.



The Sydney Morning Herald reports that he was then accompanied to hospital in a taxi by the Japanese side's medical staff.

White told Keo.co.za:

He is in intensive care and he currently doesn't have movement on his left side but he is talking – and typical of Eddie – it's about the challenge of the All Blacks and the subsequent European tour. 

My understanding is he will be in intensive care for at least the next week.

My prayers and thoughts are with him, as I am sure will be the case with all those who know him and have had the privilege of working with him.

A spokeswoman for the Japan Rugby Football Union confirmed, per Sky Sports:

He was with the team's staff at the time and they went together to a hospital in Tokyo by taxi.

The doctors said he was showing signs of a light cerebral infarction and he was hospitalised for examination.

Jones had begun life as Japan coach in positive fashion, comfortably winning back-to-back Asian Five Nations titles and securing summer wins over Wales, USA and Canada.



Success over Wales, although the visitors were heavily depleted by the concurrent Lions tour, was seen as a major step for Japanese rugby in Jones' vision of entering the world's top 10 nations ahead of the 2015 World Cup, per Macau Daily Times.

Japan will host the World Cup in 2019 and Jones, himself half-Japanese per RugbyWorldCup.com, was the man identified to build a competitive side by the time of that tournament.



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