Winston Parks

Winston Parks

Personal information
Full name	Winston Parks Tifet
Date of birth	12 October 1981 (1981-10-12)
Place of birth	Limón, Costa Rica
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Second Striker
Club information
Current club	FK Baku
Number	36
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1999–2001	Limonense	49	(12)
2001–2002	Udinese
2002	→ Ascoli (loan)	3	(0)
2002–2006	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	FK Baku	18	(6)
National team‡
2001–	Costa Rica	28	(6)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21 December 2011 (UTC+1). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ 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 (soccer) striker who currently plays for FK Baku. He played in Europe before at Udinese, Ascoli, Slovan Liberec, Lokomotiv Moscow, FC Saturn Ramenskoe and Politehnica Timişoara.

Career

Winston made his debut in the Costa Rican Primera División in 1999 with only in 17 year-old, playing with his hometown team AD 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.

Parks gained recognition as an exceptional youth player, appearing in FIFA World Youth Championships U-17 in 1999 held in Nigeria and U-20 in 2001 held in Argentina, and leading Costa Rica during the 2001 U-20 tournament, with four goals. His high internationally performances led the Italian club Udinese to purchase the player for $2.1 million from AD Limonense. However, Parks was unable to earn a place in the club's first team, he was loaned 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.

After making his full national team debut in November 2001, he made the roster for the 2002 World Cup, where he appeared in two games as a substitute. Against Turkey he scored the equalizing goal, but failed to score on a second opportunity. he also had a great game against Brazil. His lack of playing time and injuries have, however, resulted in Parks seeing little time during 2006 World Cup qualifying.

After spending six years in Europe he decided to moved back to Costa Rica looking for more minutes on the field in other the get in shape and find again his game and ability. He signed with LD Alajuelense, but he has had a lot of injuries and only scored two goals in the Apertura's tournament.

Politehnica Timişoara

He signed in Summer 2008. Parks made his debut in an away match against FC Argeş where he played just one minute. He scored his first two goals against CS Otopeni in a 2–2 draw. In an away match at Gloria Bistriţa he made his worst match of his career and was criticized by the chairman Marian Iancu and put him on transfer list.

Khazar Lankaran

On 13 August 2010, he was loaned out to FK Khazar Lankaran with option to buy him at end of the season. He was the goalscorer of the team on 2010–11 season.

International goals

Scores and results list. Costa Rica's goal tally first.

Goal	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	17 April 2002	International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan	Japan	1 – 1	1–1	Friendly
2	9 June 2002	Incheon Munhak Stadium, Incheon, South Korea	Turkey	1 – 1	1–1	2002 FIFA World Cup
3	29 March 2003	Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela, Costa Rica	Paraguay	2 – 1	2–1	Friendly
4	4 June 2004	Estadio Ricardo Saprissa, Tibás, San José, Costa Rica	Nicaragua	2 – 0	5–1	Friendly
5	4 June 2004	Estadio Ricardo Saprissa, Tibás, San José, Costa Rica	Nicaragua	4 – 0	5–1	Friendly
6	1 June 2010	Stade Tourbillon, Sion, Switzerland	Switzerland	0 – 1	0–1	Friendly

Honours

Season	Club	Title
2004	Lokomotiv Moscow	Russian Premier League
2005	Lokomotiv Moscow	Russian Super Cup
2010–11	Khazar Lankaran	Azerbaijan Cup

External links

• Winston Parks at National-Football-Teams.com
• Soccerway Profile