Winston Parks

Winston Parks
Personal information
Full name	Winston Antonio Parks Tifet
Date of birth	12 October 1981 (age 42)
Place of birth	Limón, Costa Rica
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Second Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team
1999–2001	Limonense
2001–2002	Udinese
2002	→ Ascoli (loan)
2003–2006	Lokomotiv Moscow
2005	→ Saturn Moscow (loan)
2006–2007	Slovan Liberec
2007–2008	Alajuelense
2008–2011	Politehnica Timişoara
2010–2011	→ Khazar Lankaran (loan)
2011–2012	FC Baku
2013	Uruguay Coronado
2014	Limón
2015–2016	Santos de Guápiles
Total
International career
1999–2001	Costa Rica U20
2001–2011	Costa Rica
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Winston Antonio Parks Tifet (born 12 October 1981) is a Costa Rican former professional footballer who played as a striker.

He previously played in Europe for

FC Saturn Ramenskoe, Politehnica Timişoara and FC Baku

.

Club career

Winston made his debut in the Costa Rican

Victor Núñez and Andy Herron

.

His high internationally performances led the Italian club

Slovan Liberec.^[5]

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

Alajuelense in summer 2007,^[6]

but he has had a lot of injuries and only scored two goals in the Apertura's tournament.

Politehnica Timișoara

He returned to Europa and signed for the Romanian club in summer 2008.

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.

FK Baku

Parks joined

Baku from at the start of the 2011–12 season. After 9 goals in 36 appearances in all competitions for Baku, he left the club at the end of the 2012/13 season.^[8]

Uruguay Coronado

In September 2013, Parks joined

Uruguay Coronado.^[9]

Ahead of the 2014 Verano season, Parks moved to second division side

Santos de Guápiles in January 2015.^[12]

International career

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.^[13]

After making his full national team debut in a November 2001

2002 World Cup, where he appeared in two games as a substitute.^[13]

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.

He earned a total of 27 caps, scoring 6 goals and represented his country at the 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup.^[14]

His final international was a November 2011

friendly match against Spain.^[15]

International goals

Scores and results list. Costa Rica's goal tally first.[15]

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