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Daniel Carter

Personal information
Full name	Daniel William Carter
Date of birth	5 March 1982 (1982-03-05) (age 28)
Place of birth	Southbridge, Canterbury, New Zealand
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Weight	91 kg (14 st 5 lb)
Nickname	DC Dan Dezzy[1]
School	Ellesmere College Christchurch Boys High School
Occupation(s)	Professional Rugby Union Player
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	First Five-Eighth Inside centre Fullback
New Zealand No.	1034
Amateur clubs
	Southbridge RFC
Clubs played for
Years	Club / team	Caps	Points
Professional / senior clubs
2008-2009	Perpignan	5	(45)
correct as of 2009-02-01.
Provincial/State sides
2002–	Canterbury	27	(191)
correct as of 10 March 2010.
Super Rugby
2003-2008, 2010-	Crusaders	74	(996)
correct as of 2010-03-13.
National team(s)
2003–present	New Zealand	66	(994)
correct as of November 29, 2009 (2009-11-29).

Daniel William "Dan" Carter (born March 5, 1982(1982-03-05) in Southbridge, near Christchurch^[2]) is a New Zealand professional Rugby union footballer. In the 2009 northern hemisphere winter he played for USA Perpignan in the French Top 14 competition. In the 2nd half of 2009 he returned to New Zealand to play provincial rugby for Canterbury and the Crusaders in the 2010 Super 14 season. He is currently 4th on the all time List of leading Rugby union Test point scorers and 3rd on the list of top Super rugby point scorers.

Provincial

Carter made his provincial debut for Canterbury in 2002, and in 2003 was selected to play in the Super 12 (now Super 14) franchise the Crusaders. Initially playing mainly at second five-eighth Carter reached the final of the competition with the Crusaders in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Although they lost the 2003 and 2004 finals, by 2005 Carter had moved to first five-eighth. He regularly played with Andrew Mehrtens before Mehrtens left the team following their 2004 season. In 2005 and 2006 the Crusaders won the competition, and in the 2006 season Carter scored the most individual points for a player in one season with 221. In April 2008, Carter was linked with a possible move to the Welsh Magners League region the Cardiff Blues along with Guinness Premiership returnees Northampton Saints until being linked to play next season with French teams RC Toulonnais as well as Stade Toulousain who in April 2008 offered Carter "the biggest rugby contract in world rugby", at £750,000 per year to play for them.^[3] In June 2008, Carter made the decision to sign a six-month contract with French club side Perpignan, who will be paying Carter the equivalent of £30,000 per game, during his sabbatical season.^[4] Carter will most likely return to the All Blacks in time for next year's Tri Nations competition as well as the 2011 Rugby World Cup. On 31 January 2009 Carter ruptured his achilles tendon playing for Perpignan against Stade Francais. It is estimated he will be out of action for 6 months. He won the Top 14 with Perpignan in 2009. Dan Carter recovered earlier than expected; he played for his province, Canterbury, in the opening game of the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup and is selected to play for the All Blacks to play against Australia's Wallabies in 22 August 2009 after a fews months out recovering.

International

In 2003, Carter made his All Blacks debut at age 21 in Hamilton, New Zealand, scoring 20 points. He was then capped against France in Christchurch, which the All Blacks won 31–23. He was also a substitute in a match against the Australia (the Wallabies) in Sydney, which the All Blacks won 50–21. Carter was then included in New Zealand's 2003 Rugby World Cup squad, where he first gained serious international attention. Carter spent much of the latter stages of the tournament on the bench leaving New Zealand without a specialist goal-kicker. However, he did play in the games against Italy in Melbourne, which the All Blacks won 70–7, and the wins over Canada and Tonga. Although he has been an All Black since 2003 he only secured a permanent position as the first five-eighth in the team during the 2004 tour to the United Kingdom and France displacing Carlos Spencer. He had been playing as a second five-eighths up until the end of the 2004 Tri-Nations. After Carter's performance in the second All Blacks Test against the British and Irish Lions in 2005, he was hailed as the next big thing in world rugby. He scored two tries, five penalties, and four conversions. He ended the match with 33 points, passing the previous All Blacks record of 18 points in a Lions Test (Carter's second-half total of 22 points by itself was sufficient to top this). He has currently scored a total of 994 test points (25 tries, 169 conversions, 175 penalties, and 2 drop goals) in 66 tests, with an average of 15.0 points a game (the highest average for players who have scored more than 500 Test points). The All Blacks have only lost eight games that Carter has featured in since his debut in June 2003.^[5] Carter has since returned to the Super 14 , re-signing with the Crusaders

International Tries

Dan Carter's International Tries[6]
Try	Opposing Team	City/Country	Venue	Competition	Year
[1]	Wales	Hamilton, New Zealand	Waikato Stadium	Test Match	2003
[2]	Australia	Sydney, Australia	Stadium Australia	Tri Nations	2003
[3]	Italy	Melbourne, Australia	Docklands Stadium	Rugby World Cup	2003
[4]	Tonga	Brisbane, Australia	Lang Park	Rugby World Cup	2003
[5]	England	Auckland, New Zealand	Eden Park	Test Match	2004
[6]	Italy	Rome, Italy	Stadio Flaminio	Test Match	2004
[7]	France	Paris, France	Stade de France	Test Match	2004
[8]	Fiji	North Shore City, New Zealand	North Harbour Stadium	Test Match	2005
[9-10]	British and Irish Lions	Wellington, New Zealand	Westpac Stadium	Test Match	2005
[11-12]	Wales	Cardiff, Wales	Millennium Stadium	Test Match	2005
[13]	Argentina	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Ferrocaril Oeste	Test Match	2006
[14]	South Africa	Rustenburg, South Africa	Olympia Park	Tri Nations	2006
[15]	England	London, England	Twickenham	Test Match	2006
[16]	France	Lyon, France	Stade de Gerland	Test Match	2006
[17-19]	Canada	Hamilton, New Zealand	Waikato Stadium	Test Match	2007
[20]	South Africa	Christchurch, New Zealand	Lancaster Park	Tri Nations	2007
[21]	Scotland	Edinburgh, Scotland	Murrayfield	Test Match	2007
[22]	England	Auckland, New Zealand	Eden Park	Test Match	2008
[23]	England	Christchurch, New Zealand	Lancaster Park	Test Match	2008
[24]	South Africa	Cape Town, South Africa	Newlands Stadium	Tri Nations	2008
[25]	Australia	Brisbane, Australia	Lang Park	Tri Nations	2008

Personal life

In November 2005, he released a book entitled Dan Carter: Skills & Performance. It included stories about his relatively brief international rugby career as well as section on skills for younger players.
In 2004 and 2005, Carter was voted sexiest New Zealand male in a survey, receiving 35.7% of the vote in 2005.^[7]

In 2008 American Cable Channel E! Entertainment judged Carter to be 11th on their list of Sexiest Men in The World.^[8]

Carter models for Jockey underwear on billboards worldwide.^[9] His girlfriend, Honor Dillon joined him in one campaign in 2009.^[10]

Daniel Carter was the first person in the world to purchase a PC shipped with Windows Vista.^[11]

Achievements

• 2004 - Kelvin Tremain Memorial Trophy for Player of the Year
• 2004 - Rebel Sport Super 14 Player of the Year
• 2005 - Kelvin Tremain Memorial Trophy for Player of the Year
• 2005 - IRB Player of the Year
• 2006 - Rebel Sport Super 14 Player of the Year

References

External links

• Crusaders profile
• The Official website of Dan Carter
• Daniel Carter at AllBlacks.com
• Dan Carter profile on itsrugby.co.uk
• Dan Carter Videos

Awards
Preceded by Schalk Burger	IRB International Player of the Year 2005	Succeeded by Richie McCaw