Former All White Mark Cossey is taking up his new venture as head coach of Claudelands Rovers Football Club and the Waikato Football Academy.
Cossey represented the All Whites in the 1980s and has been without a club since leaving Hamilton Wanderers at the end of the New Zealand Football national league in March.
After six months off the radar however, Cossey nowwants to take Claudelands to the top of the LottoNRFL Premiership, which features clubs from Auckland, Bay of Plenty and the Waikato.
"What I want to do with Claudelands is try and do to a certain level what I did with Wanderers - not what I did but what everyone did at that club," Cossey said.
"They've got a good junior base and women's teams are very strong. They've got about 500 members and are centralised in Hamilton."