Personal information | |||
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Full name | Winston Antonio Parks Tifet | ||
Date of birth | 12 October 1981 | ||
Place of birth | Limón, Costa Rica | ||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | ||
Playing position | Second Striker | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Santos de Guápiles | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1999–2001 | Limonense | 49 | (12) |
2001–2002 | Udinese | 15 | (4) |
2002 | → Ascoli (loan) | 3 | (0) |
2003–2006 | Lokomotiv Moscow | 53 | (10) |
2005 | → Saturn Moscow (loan) | 11 | (3) |
2006–2007 | Slovan Liberec | 17 | (2) |
2007–2008 | Alajuelense | 28 | (9) |
2008–2011 | Politehnica Timişoara | 59 | (7) |
2010–2011 | → Khazar Lankaran (loan) | 25 | (8) |
2011–2012 | FC Baku | 30 | (9) |
2013 | Uruguay Coronado | 5 | (1) |
2014 | Limón | 14 | (2) |
2015– | Santos de Guápiles | 10 | (1) |
National team‡ | |||
2001–2011 | Costa Rica | 27 | (6) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 09:46, 11 September 2014 (UTC+1). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17:41, 5 June 2010 (UTC+1) |
Winston Antonio Parks Tifet (born 12 October 1981) is a Costa Rican football striker playing for Santos de Guápiles in the Costa Rican Primera División.
He previously played in Europe for Udinese, Ascoli, Slovan Liberec, Lokomotiv Moscow, FC Saturn Ramenskoe, Politehnica Timişoara and FC BakuHe also played in Italy and Germany.
Winston made his debut in the Costa Rican Primera División in 1999 with only in 17-year-old, playing with his hometown team Limonense and scored his first goal back on 28 November of the same year, he played this season mostly as a substitute, because he was competing at that moment against some players that succeeded during the next few years, like Kurt Bernard, Andy Herron, Rayner Robinson and Ricardo Douglas for a place in the starting line-up. The following season and after the sale of most of the players mentioned before, it was usual to see him in the starting line-up making a dangerous offensive triplet with Victor Núñez and Andy Herron.
His high internationally performances led the Italian club Udinese to purchase the player for $2.1 million from Limonense. However, due to injuries Parks was unable to earn a place in the club's first team, he was loaned for six months to Ascoli and eventually moved on to Lokomotiv Moscow, he was again loaned to FC Saturn Ramenskoe and then he was sold to Slovan Liberec.