Dai Young

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Dai Young
Rugby league career
Full name	David Young
Date of birth	(1967-07-26) July 26, 1967
Place of birth	Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight	18 st 7 lb (117 kg)
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
2003–2011 2011- 2013	Cardiff Blues London Wasps Barbarian F.C.

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. His son Thomas Young is a professional rugby union player.

In 2013 he was chosen to manage the Barbarians, in matches against England and the British and Irish Lions, both of which the Barbarians lost 40-12 and 59-8 respectively. It was noted that he picked 4 London Wasps players, the team he managed at the time.

References

↑ "Measuring Worth – Relative Value of UK Pounds". Measuring Worth. 2003-04-23. Retrieved 2008-10-03.
↑ "Dai Young: On making his Wales debut in the first ever Rugby World Cup against England in the quarter-finals". WRU. 2008-07-29. Retrieved 2008-07-29.

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v t e Wales squad – 1987 Rugby World Cup Third Place

Forwards	Blackmore Buchanan Collins Ph. Davies S. Evans James P. Moriarty R. Moriarty Norster A. Phillips K. Phillips Rawlins Richards Roberts Sutton Webster Whitefoot Young

Backs	Bowen Dacey J. Davies Devereux I. Evans Giles Hadley Hopkins Jones Ring Thorburn Titley Webbe

Coach	Gray

v t e Wales squad – 1995 Rugby League World Cup

Davies (c) Atcheson Bateman Busby Cowie Cunningham Devereux Ellis Eyres Ford Gibbs Griffiths Hadley Hall Harris Jones Moriarty Perrett Phillips Quinnell Skerrett Stephens Sullivan Webster Young Coach: Griffiths

v t e Wales squad – 1999 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Charvis Evans Humphreys Jenkins A. Lewis G. Lewis G. Llewellyn Moore C. Quinnell S. Quinnell Rogers Sinkinson Voyle Williams Wyatt Young

Backs	Bateman Davies Gibbs Howarth Howley James Jenkins Jones Jones-Hughes D. Llewellyn Morgan Taylor Thomas Walne

Coach	Henry

v t e British and Irish Lions – 1989 Australia tour

Forwards	Ackford Calder Chilcott Dooley Griffiths Jeffrey Lenihan Moore Norster Richards Robinson Smith Sole Teague White Young

Backs	Andrew Armstrong Chalmers Clement Dean Devereux Dods Evans Guscott Hall G. Hastings S. Hastings Jones Mullin Oti Underwood Carling (withdrew - injury)

Coach	McGeechan

v t e British and Irish Lions – 1997 South Africa tour

Forwards	Back Dallaglio Davidson Hill Johnson(c) Leonard Miller Quinnell Regan Rodber Rowntree Shaw Smith Wainwright Wallace Weir Williams Wood Young Redman (injury replacement) Diprose (injury replacement)

Backs	Bateman Beal Bentley Dawson Evans Healey Howley Jenkins Gibbs Greenwood Guscott Grayson Stimpson Tait Townsend T. Underwood Catt (injury replacement) Bracken (injury replacement)

Coach	McGeechan & Telfer

v t e British and Irish Lions – 2001 Australia tour

Forwards	Back Bulloch Charvis Corry Dallaglio Davidson Greening Grewcock Hill Johnson (c) Leonard McBryde Morris Murray O'Kelly Quinnell Smith Taylor Wallace West Williams Wood Vickery Young

Backs	Balshaw Catt Cohen Dawson Gibbs Greenwood Healey Henderson Howe Howley James Jenkins Luger Nicol O'Driscoll O'Gara Perry Robinson Taylor Wilkinson

Coach	Henry

v t e London Wasps squad

Forwards	Cannon Cochrane Cooper-Wooley du Plessis Everard Haskell Hughes Jackson Johnson Jones Launchbury Lindsay McIntyre Mullan Myall Palmer Pitman Poff Reeves Swainston Taylor Thompson

Backs	Bailey Bassett T Bell C Bell Carlisle Commins Daly Davies Goode Hayter Masi Mayor Moates Simpson Southwell Varndell Wade

Coach	Young

Persondata
Name	Young, Dai
Alternative names
Short description	Welsh dual-code rugby player
Date of birth	26 July 1967
Place of birth	Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales
Date of death
Place of death

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