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Campo's birthday wish for Oz

Cape Town - Former Australia wing David Campese has a birthday wish for the Wallabies - a new coach.

Campese, who celebrates his 49th birthday today, took to Twitter to air his feelings about current Wallaby coach, Robbie Deans.

My birthday wish is for deans to leave and ewen to be coach of wallabies. Sometimes dreams come true, Campese wrote, before adding: Let's hope for a great end to the RWC. And that aussie rugby gets a coach who can teach passing the ball to the wings and run!!!

Campese was capped 101 times for Australia and scored 64 tries was voted Player of the Tournament at the 1991 Rugby World Cup.

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