Mark Cueto
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| Mark Cueto | |||
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| Full name | Mark John Cueto | ||
| Date of birth | 1979-12-26 | ||
| Place of birth |  Workington, Cumbria, England |
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| Height | 1.85 m | ||
| Weight | 95 kg | ||
| Nickname | Frank Quates |
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| Rugby union career | |||
| Position | Wing | ||
| Professional clubs | Caps | (points) | |
| 2004-present |
Sale Sharks Altrincham Kersal |
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(195) |
| correct as of 27 December 2006. | |||
| National team(s) | |||
| 2004-present 2005 |
England British and Irish Lions |
18 1 |
(65) (0) |
| correct as of 14 Sept 2006. | |||
| 7's National teams | |||
| England |
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| Other Information | |||
| School attended | St Thomas More Catholic High School | ||
| University | Crewe & Alsager College | ||
Mark John "Frank" Cueto (born December 26, 1979 in Workington, Cumbria) is an English international rugby union player. He is a winger for Sale Sharks at club level and internationally.
His Cumbrian hometown of Workington is in an area more associated with rugby league than union. He owes his surname to a Spanish grandfather. Although he played his first rugby game as an eight-year-old in Workington, and played after he moved with his parents to Wolverhampton, he did not grow up playing the game. When he was 10 years old, his parents moved again to Crewe, where he took up football instead of rugby. He did not play rugby again until he was 17. His early club was Altrincham Kersal.
Cueto made his debut for Sale Sharks against Bristol Shoguns in 2001 and made the England tour to Argentina in 2002. He has been a fixture in the England A team since 2002 and has represented England at rugby sevens.
He was not selected during the Sir Clive Woodward regime, having to wait until November 2004 for his debut against Canada at Twickenham, when he scored two tries. In his brief international career with England to date he has averaged a try a game.
In 2005, he was called up to the British and Irish Lions for their New Zealand tour after original selection Iain Balshaw was ruled out due to injury. He featured in the third Test at Eden Park, Auckland.
Cueto has also seen a reasonable success at club level in his five years at the club, winning the European Challenge Cup twice, first in 2002 (then known as the Parker Pen challenge shield) when sale beat Pontypridd 25 points to 22 at the Kassam Stadium in Oxford, England on May 26, 2002. He was part of the Sale team the beat Pau, the champions in 2000, by 27 points to 3, also at the Kassam stadium on May 21, 2005. Cueto scored a try in the victory.
He is also, at the time of writing (February 15, 2006), the third highest try scorer in the history of the English premiership, with former Leicester flanker Neil Back and his still active fellow club winger Steve Hanley.
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| Forwards: | Back • Bulloch • Byrne • Cockbain • Corry • Dallaglio • Easterby • Grewcock • Hayes • Hill • Jenkins • Jones, R. • Kay • Moody • O'Callaghan • O'Connell • O'Kelly • Owen • Rowntree • Shaw • Sheridan • Stevens • Taylor • Thompson • Titterrell • White, Jason • White, Julian • Williams, M. |  |
| Backs: | Cooper • Cueto • Cusiter • D'Arcy • Dawson • Greenwood • Henson • Hickie • Hodgson • Jones, S. • Horgan • Lewsey • Murphy • O'Driscoll (c) • O'Gara • Peel • Robinson • Shanklin • Smith • Thomas • Wilkinson • Williams, S. • | |
| Coach: | Woodward | |
