Dai Young

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Dai Young
Personal information
Full name	David Young
Date of birth	July 26, 1967 (1967-07-26) (age 40)
Place of birth	Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight	18 st 7 lb (117 kg)
Nickname	Live Fast
Rugby league career
Position	Prop
Professional clubs		Caps	(points)
1990-1991 1991-1996	Leeds Salford
National teams
1990-1996	Wales	14	(0)
Rugby union career
Current status
Position(s)	Coach
Current team	Cardiff Blues
Playing career
Position	Prop
Clubs
1985-1988 1987 1988-1990 1996-2002	Swansea Northern Suburbs Cardiff Cardiff
National team(s)		Caps	(points)
1987-2001 1989-2001	Wales British and Irish Lions	51 3	(4) (0)
Coaching career
2002-	Cardiff Blues

David "Dai" Young (born 26 July 1967) is a former Welsh rugby union and rugby league player. Born in Aberdare in 1967, Young lived in Penywaun for many years, and was regularly seen training with his father on the local sports field, now occupied by the Welsh-language school Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun.

Young played rugby union at club level for Swansea and Cardiff. Having not been selected to play for Wales in the 1987 Rugby World Cup, Young, then 19, travelled to Australia for the summer to play for Northern Suburbs. When Stuart Evans broke his foot playing against Tonga, Young was on the right side of the world at the right time and was called up to the Welsh squad. He made his debut for Wales against England in the quarter-finals. Young also played rugby league for Leeds and Salford. Young won 51 caps for the Wales national rugby union team, a record number for a prop, and three caps for the British Lions. He is currently head coach of the Cardiff Blues

[edit] Trivia

• He is the only man to have toured with the British Lions in three separate decades: 1989, 1997 and 2001.
• One of Young's nicknames was "Live Fast" (i.e. "Live Fast, Dai/Die Young")

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Wales profile

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