Leon MacDonald

As of June 30, 2007 National: June 21, 2008

Leon Raymond MacDonald ( born December 21, 1977 in Blenheim ) is a New Zealand rugby union player. He plays as a goalkeeper, compound semiconductor and sometimes as an outer three-quarters.

He made his debut in 1994 in the New Zealand provincial rugby for Marlborough against Buller. He currently plays for the Crusaders in the Super 14 and for Canterbury in the Air New Zealand Cup. In addition, he has also played for Yamaha Jubilo in Japan.

Career

MacDonald went to the Marlborough Boys' College. He played in the Christchurch premier competition for Burnside and debuted in 2000 as a 22 -year-old at the All Blacks in a game against Scotland. He has achieved to date 131 points (12 attempts, 25 increases, 7 penalty kicks ) in 43 internationals. He also has not played in three games for the New Zealand Māori, in which he scored 10 points. He scored the trial for the New Zealand Māori, the victory over the British and Irish Lions brought in Hamilton in 2005.

Aufstellungs controversies

At the World Championship 2003 MacDonald was instead proposed as a goalkeeper as an internal three-quarters by the former assistant coach of the team behind the All Blacks, Robbie Deans. This experiment failed, however, and it was the last time that he played as an inner three-quarters. In 2005 he was proposed by the assistant coach of the team behind the All Blacks, Wayne Smith as linking half against the Lions. This failed again and he did not play well at this position.