David Campese - The Wizard of Oz 

The hands, the step, the pace, the positional play, the party tricks and the derring do. A player who looked like he enjoyed the game and the possibilities it presented. One of a kind.

I'm a Kiwi and I love Campo. Such a fluid runner and a great sidestep.

Before Jonah Lomu came onto the scene. This guy was my Idol as a 12 year old. The Zinadine Zidane of rugby. Just beautifully balanced runner and imaginative player

I was a French kid in the 80's and had only eyes for Blanco, Sella, Charvet and Lagisquet (the best backs France ever had) but I can remember how amazing Campese was. He had it all and was my one and only foreign hero.

What a great set of backs Oz had back then. Campo the icing, but Horan and Little outstanding also.

My favourite rugby player of all times, despite the fact that he is not a Springbok. Had the honour of meeting him on a domestic flight while he was part of the coaching staff for the Sharks. I actually mentioned the fact that as a youngster I used to idolise him. Pleasantly surprised by the great man's humility, honesty and humble demeanor, not to mention his frank opinions and deep knowledge of the game without ever coming across as arrogant. Respect!

David Campese. My goodness with time how they are forgotten. Better than anything around today. As with the league players of yesteryear the Rugby Union players also much better than today. They were Dead set skillfully footballers. Not just athletes. Much better sport back then.

That back line for Oz. Has there ever been better?

I went to see leinster play Australia when the Aussies toured ireland and Wales in 1992,the leinster game was their first match of the tour and they played 13 of their world cup winning team from the year before,I remember sitting in the old West stand in Landowne Rd and I remember a high ball been kicked towards campos wing,he backed peddled and caught the ball over his head and I thought wow and it had rained earlier so it was a greasy ball,and then he side stepped the oncoming defender and threw a twenty five metre pass straight into the bread basket of Jason Little,I was witnessing a truely talented guy,he possessed everything you'd want in a rugby player,a once in a generation player,it was a privilege to see him play,greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪.

He is my hero. I used to watch his play of VHS video tape hundred times with my teammates in Janaese university.

He broke my heart when they demolished the All Blacks but his brilliance was undeniable and along with their backline they brought something beautiful to the game.

Loved watching this guy.. freakishly good

What a privilege watching him play club rugby at Randwick oval. He would serve his hips, the defence would edge the wrong way ever so slightly and suddenly a gap appeared and he would turn on the afterburners. Whoosh! The entire grandstand would rise. He seemed to skim over the ground. Opposing fullbacks were like traffic cones at training. And people forget how far he could kick a ball. Dare not kick to his wing because he would swoop it up and kick it back 20 metres over your head and then be racing after it like a thoroughbred. Just an amazing athlete.

Campo, the Ella brothers, Moon and Papworth. Backline play sublime. Our schoolboy First IX strategy was modelled on the Aussies. From an All Black fan.

What a talent one of the greats of rugby

Kirwan and Campese, two of my favorite non-Polynesian wings.

Very special player! Loved watching him play when i was a kid.

The best Wallaby winger I have ever seen. Been here 50 years.

Simply can't beat class. Arrogant cocky but was able to back it up always a sign of quality 👏

The other day this guy came and coached my footy team and it was the best time ever

David campese was a good player man he pretty much made the goose step popular as a kiwi kid he reeked havoc against the All Blacks

Love or hate the guy when he burst onto the scene in the early 80s he revolutionised the wingers role,genuine pace,slight of hand with the ball,great sidestep and of course the “goose step” Only problem was he could be a turnstile in defence a little too much.

Best rugby back I saw as a youngster along with Danie Gerber.

One of the best Wallaby teams of all time, if I may say so as a Kiwi...

What a rugby legend.

Easily, by a long chalk & a side-step, my favourite player of all-time. Campo = Magician.

Tim Horan deserves a video too!

Australia could use a player like Campese now.....

A Ferrari of a man....great memories of when rugby was a must watch,to help get us through this lockdown.

Super Campese and super Wallabies of this years ! Greatings from France !

One of my all time heroes (Englishman)

Imagine celebrating a try by just shaking hands these days.

Love the way he just jogs on back to halfway after scoring, none of this carrying on like a pork chop business. He is right up there with the greatest wingers the game has seen… Imho.

Real Rugby, great tributes and compiations, pleeeeze keep them coming!

I met him in the 80s, a nice guy

Favourite player

Campese is Italian for 'shut the gate'. He was the first Australian sportsman to become a millionaire

I'm not sure his physicality would hold up today but his innovation, intensity and influence are mighty.

Back when the Wallabies played for the jumper and not lucrative contracts.

It’s nice to see some footage of him not looking like a mid 30s man

I choke up when I see these vidoes, REAL RUGBY and Wallabies glory days Not like now, its a pity such a great Rugby culture has almost been destroyed in Australia

Saw him absolutely destroy a club level grand final once. Never seen anything like it since.

One of the all time great out side backs, we loved to hate him in NZ.

That Australian commentator has been in the job a Loooonnnnggg time. Legend

Great seeing footage when touring international teams would play what we would now call provincial teams. Timeless to say

This is what real quality basic rugby is all about, Campese the man.🏉🏉🏉🏉🏉👍... NZ fan

Pure class he was 👍👍👍

One of the greats 👍 and entertaining with it!!

As an Englishman, it hurts me to say, absolute legend

What a great Team Player!

man was that guy fast...

David Campese is impact!!

Awesome Campo 😀

Brilliant to watch..nothing like today....glory days. The game destroyed at the grass roots. Never to win another world cup in my life time!

A legend of the game.

Abesolute legend . if he was a kiwi ..we would have made him, Sir David Campese...

Legend 💪🏽

One of the greatest ever people these days don't realise how good he was, top 3 winger ever some may argue the greatest.Wasn't renounced for his defence but made up for every miss tackle with a try or an assist.

Aussies u need to bring back that classic strip!

9:05 Dani Gerber and Tim Horan!!!!

4:12 "The green of New South Wales" LOL!!! That's the green of Randwick!

Hard to say who was the best winger of all time, but Campo is right up there with the top.

Shiiiit that dude was fast

One of the best of the best

Being a rugby fan growing up in western australia being an afl heartland he gained huge recognition and heard capmpsie talked about,which was unbelievable if youve been to afl dominated states in australia. Also johan got the same as,aussies just love champions of any game

The 'running rugby' style has its origins with the club that included the Ella Brothers and Campese - Randwick, whose nickname is the Galloping Greens as well as the Wicks.

Brilliant and sheer genius.

Bring back the glory days.

Campo, my favourite Australian Rugby Union player, apparently Australian Coach Bob Dwyer did not like David Campese play wearing his wrist bands. I don't know why, he still got the job done.

Please make a tribute of Tim Horan he was the best 12 the game has ever seen

A true dangerman. What an athlete.

Fantastic Wallaby. Superb try-scoring attacking genius of his generation. True great of World Rugby.

I'm a kiwi and I enjoyed watching campo play! Glad he retired back then lol

Campo was on a different level altogether. If he played today, Australia would have had to break the bank for him.

Held the international try scoring record for a very long time - a wopping 64 tries! Only because of the frequency of test matches did another play just pass his record. Remarkable record, remarkable player.

I worked with one of Campo's Randwick & Tah team mates and he would describe Campo as being quite aloof, not one of the boy's when it came to celebrating and partying.......he stressed that this wasn't a bad thing, this was just how Campo was and part of what made him great

Great player of all time

I miss the rugby, too. X

The man who had it all, except tackling ability

David is my hero🎉

Im surprised that the league code did not lure him in the 80 s when union was an amateur sport. He would of been a big hit in Rugby league with his speed.

Bella Bravo!

that was Australia at is best back then a very top team exellent

02:16 1986 Rugby World Cup game. Referee Keith Lawrence got *that* call badly wrong!

Forget how great this guy was.

3:52 is where you can really see that electric turn of pace.

この時のワラビーズが大好きなんですよ。 この、ライナー、キャンピージー、ニックファージョーンズのいたワラビーズが。 今のオールブラックスもフォックスとカーワン、マイケルジョーンズいたオールブラックスもすごいですけど。

Un grand joueur de rugby.

Campo was a genius - far more than just winger for many years. Saw the writing was on the wall when he faced Lomu though......

この頃のワラビーズはファンタスティックだった。キャンピージに代表されるバックスのセンス抜群のアタック。絶妙の間合いでスペースにボールが投げだされ、そこにどこからでもプレーヤーが顔を出してくる。美しいトライがたくさんあった。

1:13 What a magnificent try.

ライナー、ニックファージョーンズ、ティムホラン、そしてキャンピージーがいたワラビーズが自分のワラビーズの好きな理由であり、今尚ラグビーの全てです。

i miss the way the backlines where passing the ball

He was good enough to play for the All Blacks. He was that good.

The Myth, The Legend!

So many forward passes from Australia

5:39 I'm speechless. My God!

When Australia produced genius rugby players....

Lol at the amount of forward final passes to Campo

1991 at eden park my first rugby game. The All blacks have the wallabies on the line and campese is less than 3 meters away from me