Dai Young

Dai Young

Full name	David Young
Date of birth	July 26, 1967 (1967-07-26) (age 44)
Place of birth	Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight	18 st 7 lb (117 kg)
Nickname	Live Fast, Big Ted
Rugby league career
Position	Prop
Professional clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1990–1991 1991–1996	Leeds Salford
National teams
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1990–1996	Wales	14	(0)
Rugby union career
Current status
Position(s)	Coach
current team	London Wasps
Playing career
Position	Prop
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
1985–1988 1987 1988–1990 1996–2002	Swansea Northern Suburbs Cardiff Cardiff
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1987–2001 1989–2001	Wales British and Irish Lions	51 3	(4) (0)
Coaching career
Years	Club / team
2002–2011 2011-	Cardiff Blues London Wasps

David "Dai" Young (born 26 July 1967) is a Welsh former rugby union and rugby league player, presently Director of Rugby at London Wasps.

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 played rugby league for Leeds and Salford. When he moved to Leeds his transfer fee was a then world record of £150,000 (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £319,000 in 2009).^[1] He captained Wales in the 1995 Rugby League World Cup.^[2]

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 the only man to have toured with the British Lions in three separate decades: 1989, 1997 and 2001.

After becoming head coach of the Cardiff Blues, he resigned in summer 2011, and was made Director of Rugby at London Wasps after payment of a compensation package.

Young formerly resided in the village of Cwmdare, within two miles of where he was raised. He has now moved his base to London.

References

1. ^ "Measuring Worth – Relative Value of UK Pounds". Measuring Worth. 2003-04-23. http://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/. Retrieved 2008-10-03. 
2. ^ "Dai Young: On making his Wales debut in the first ever Rugby World Cup against England in the quarter-finals". WRU. 2008-07-29. http://www.wru.co.uk/41_14181.php. Retrieved 2008-07-29. 

External links

• Wales profile

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Name	Young, Dai
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Date of birth	26 July 1967
Place of birth	Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales
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