Dan Parks

As of May 6, 2011 National February 7, 2012

Daniel Arthur Parks ( born May 26, 1978 in Hornsby, Australia) is a Scottish rugby union player. He plays as a connector for the Cardiff Blues and played from 2004 to 2012 for the Scottish national team.

Career

Parks played as a teenager for the Australian region of New South Wales until he moved to England to Leeds Tykes in 2001. He went to a few months back to Australia to play for the Eastern Suburbs RUFC. The Glasgow Warriors, he moved in 2003. His first game for Glasgow he graduated from the Celtic Warriors in September of this year.

Parks made ​​his debut for Scotland as a substitute against Wales in the Six Nations 2004. In his ninth match against Japan, he put his first attempt. After a poor performance in the first game of the Scottish national team in the 2012 Six Nations against England on February 4, 2012, he announced on 7 February 2012 on surprising his immediate resignation from international rugby known. He is entitled to due to the Scottish origins of his grandfather to play for Scotland.

Parks participated in the World Championships in 2007 and 2011. In 2007 he was employed in all five games of the Scots. At the end of the season 2007/ 08 he became the twelfth Scottish player who has scored more than 100 points for the national team.

In the 2010/11 season moved back to Wales to park the Cardiff Blues.