Winston Antonio Parks Tifet (born 12 October 1981) is a Costa Rican former professional

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who played as a striker. He previously played in Europe for

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, FC Saturn Ramenskoe, Politehnica Timişoara and

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Club career

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

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, 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. His high internationally performances led the Italian club

to purchase the player for $2.1 million from Limonense. However, due to injuries Parks was unable to earn a place in the club's first team, he was loaned for six months to

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, he was again loaned to FC Saturn Ramenskoe and then he was sold to

. 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

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in summer 2007, 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. Parks made his debut in an away match against

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where he played just one minute. He scored his first two goals against

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in a 2–2 draw. In an away match at

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he made his worst match of his career and was criticized by the chairman

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and put him on transfer list.

Khazar Lankaran

On 13 August 2010, he was loaned out to

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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.

Uruguay Coronado

In September 2013, Parks joined

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side Uruguay Coronado. Ahead of the 2014 Verano season, Parks moved to second division side Siquirreña and in summer 2014 he returned to his hometown to play for

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. He joined

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in January 2015.

International career

Parks gained recognition as an exceptional youth player, appearing in

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s 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. After making his full national team debut in a November 2001 FIFA World Cup qualification match against

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, he made the roster for the

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, 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. He earned a total of 27 caps, scoring 6 goals and represented his country at the

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- RSSSF His final international was a November 2011

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against

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International goals

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

Personal life

Parks married Josefina Adriana Rivera on 19 June 2002.

Honours

References

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Parks, Winston 1981 births Living people People from Limón Province Association football forwards Costa Rican footballers Costa Rica under-20 international footballers Costa Rica international footballers 2002 FIFA World Cup players 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup players Udinese Calcio players Ascoli Calcio 1898 F.C. players FC Lokomotiv Moscow players FC Saturn Ramenskoye players FC Slovan Liberec players L.D. Alajuelense footballers FC Politehnica Timișoara players Khazar Lankaran FK players FC Baku players Santos de Guápiles footballers Liga FPD players Russian Premier League players Czech First League players Liga I players Serie B players Costa Rican expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Italy Expatriate footballers in Russia Expatriate footballers in the Czech Republic Expatriate footballers in Romania Expatriate footballers in Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Premier League players