Mark Cueto
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| Full name | Mark John Cueto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 26 December 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Workington, Cumbria, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 15 st 0 lb (95 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School |
St. Thomas More School Alsager Comprehensive |
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| University | Manchester Metropolitan University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Wing, Full-back | ||
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| Current team | Sale Sharks | ||
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| Crewe & Nantwich RUFC | |||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 2001–2015 | Sale Sharks | 303 | (590) |
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Correct as of 27 March 2015
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| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 2004-2012 2005 |
England British and Irish Lions |
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(100) (0) |
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Correct as of 31 March 2012
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| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Comps | |
| 2001 | England | Hong Kong | |
Mark John Cueto MBE (born 26 December 1979 in Workington, Cumbria) is a former English international rugby union player. He played on the wing for Sale Sharks and England. He is currently the joint leading try scorer in the Aviva Premiership.
On 28 January 2015, it was announced Cueto was to retire at the end of the 2014-15 season
He owes his surname to a Spaniard great-grandfather Antonio, who sailed from Santander in the 1900s and settled in Maryport, Cumbria, where he set up a fish-and-chip shop. His Cumbrian home town of Workington is in an area more associated with rugby league than union. 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, becoming a keen Manchester United fan. He did not play rugby again until he was 17. His early clubs were Sandbach and Altrincham Kersal.
Then, when he was 17 and in his final A-level year at Alsager Comprehensive, there was the annual rugby match against Holmes Chapel. It was an occasion of no great importance. Holmes Chapel had a reasonable team, but rugby players were thin on the ground at Alsager and there was not much debate about the likely result. To make up a team, Alsager teacher Lindsay Purcell recruited a number of footballers. Cueto was one of those press-ganged into service, though when it came to sport he was easily persuaded. Football was number one but he had also done athletics, basketball, volleyball and cricket.
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