Lives in Cricket No 12 - Ric Charlesworth

Chapter Six: 2002-2009 During his year in Tuscany in 2003 – accompanied by Carmen, Oscar and Hugo – Ric Charlesworth wrote a third book, Shakespeare the Coach , an expansion of one of his coaching ploys. He had used inspirational quotations from ‘sportsmen, from history, from politicians and from a range of characters’, including many from Shakespeare, ‘the first psychologist in English literature, the first one to really put meat on the bones of his characters’. It was released in August 2004 at much the same time as the staging of the Athens Olympics. Much as he’d enjoyed doing it, it did not foreshadow a permanent writing career at a time when he had hoped to coach the Australian men’s hockey team. But the plan he’d put on hold, when the job was offered after the Sydney Olympics, was thwarted when the Australian team won the gold at Athens, encouraging the incumbent coach to stay on. 78 Carmen, Hugo, Oscar and Ric in Perth in 2009.