Dan Carter
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Daniel William Carter (born 5 March 1982) is a New Zealand rugby union player. Carter played for Kobelco Steelers in Japan and for the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks.
He is the highest point scorer in test match rugby and is widely regarded by many experts as the best first five-eighth (fly-half) in the game's history.
In 2005, 2012, and 2015 (equipping Richie McCaw's record three titles) and nine Tri-Nations and Rugby Championships with the All Blacks, he was named the International Rugby Board Player of the Year. Carter sustained himself during the 2011 Rugby World Cup, but he was a key player in the 2015 Rugby World Cup, becoming one of 20 players to have won multiple Rugby World Cups.
He kicked four penalties, two conversions, and a drop goal in the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final against Australia, and was dubbed the man of the match by Australia's coach.
Early life
Carter was born in a tiny town ten minutes drive from the Carter family's house in Leeston, New Zealand, to Neville and Bev Carter, with one older sister, Sarah. He played for Southbridge Rugby Club as a half back (scrum half) and then went on to make representative teams for Ellesmere & Canterbury Country from the age of 5. He attended Ellesmere College, where he participated in the first five-eighth and then transferred to Christchurch Boys' High School in his senior year to increase his hopes of making it big in rugby. Several people have suggested that he was a shy and quiet young man who held grand ambitions to himself. Bill Dalley, a member of the 1924-25 Invincibles and later a Canterbury rugby administrator, was his great uncle.
Personal life
In October 2010, Carter married former Black Sticks striker Honor Dillon while working at DB Breweries as a marketing manager. The couple married on December 9, 2011, and they have since had four children. Richie McCaw and All Blacks former coach Graham Henry were among the wedding guests.
Carter has been modelled for Jockey Underwear on billboards around the world since 2003. Carter's potential wife joined him in 2009 as he ran in a joint effort. Carter was voted sexiest New Zealand male in a poll in 2004 and 2005, earning 56.7 percent of the vote in 2005.In 2008, American Cable Channel E!
Carter was ranked 11th on the world's most sexiest men in 2010, and E! He was named the world's third sexiest male celebrity by the World's third sexiest male figure.Carter has also worked as a spokesmodel for Daikin heat pumps, and electric shavers since mid-2011.
Dan Carter's book Dan Carter: Skills & Performance was published in November 2006. It featured articles about his brief international rugby career as well as a section on younger players' skills.
Carter was caught driving in Paris with a blood alcohol level almost twice the legal limit in February 2017. Land Rover, his sponsor, had him eventually dismissed him.
After the Rugby World Cup in 2015, Dan Carter revealed in May 2018 that he turned to National Football League (NFL) as a kicker for the New England Patriots.
Domestic career
Carter made his provincial debut for Canterbury in 2002, and the Crusaders in 2003 signed him. Carter appeared in the final of the Super 12 tournament with the Crusaders in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. Although Carter failed in the 2003 and 2004 finals, they did a good job in 2005 in the first five-eighth. He played with first-five eighth Andrew Mehrtens before moving to the team after the 2004 season. The Crusaders defeated the competition in 2005 and 2006, and Carter scored the most individual points for a player in one season with 221.
Carter was linked to many European clubs in April 2008. Carter made the decision to sign a six-month deal with Persuan, who later paid Carter the equivalent of £30,000 per game during his sabbatical season. Carter tore his Achilles tendon against Perpetnan on January 31, 2009, but Perpetnan continued to win the Top 14 despite Carter being hospitalized for the remainder of the season.
In the first game of the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup, he returned to play for his home province, Canterbury. After a few months of recovery, he was selected to play for the All Blacks against Australia on August 22, 2009. Carter led to the highest scoring in Super Rugby history in May 2012, scoring 1301 points.
Carter will join Parisian club Racing Metro after the 2015 Rugby World Cup, earning him the world's highest paid rugby player, according to a three-year contract worth €1,500,000 a season. Carter revealed in November 2015 that he met with Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots of the National Football League, about joining the team as a kicker while recovering from an Achilles tendon tear in 2013. Despite being down to 14 men 18 minutes into the game after teammate Maxime Machenaud was dismissed for a dangerous foul against Australian international Matt Giteau on June 24, 2011, Carter helped Racing Metro win the 2016 Top 14 final with a 29-21 victory over Toulon at Camp Nou on June 24.
Carter departed Racing 92 in France on November 25, 2017 at the end of the season.
Carter joined Kobelco Steelers, a Japanese Top League club, on July 16, 2018.
After Patrick Lambie was forced to leave due to concussions, Dan Carter was back to Racing 92 as injury cover on February 17th.
Dan Carter was signed by the Blues for Super Rugby Aotearoa on June 4, 2020. However, he never made a formal appearance for the team.
Dan Carter revealed that he was retirmenting from professional rugby on Instagram on February 20, 2021.
International career
Carter made his All Blacks debut at age 21 in Hamilton, New Zealand, scoring 20 points against Wales in June 2003. He was then captained against France in Christchurch, which the All Blacks beat 31–23. In a match against Australia (the Wallabies) in Sydney, which the All Blacks lost 50–21. He was also a substitute. Carter was then selected in New Zealand's 2003 Rugby World Cup squad, where he first attracted serious international attention. Carter spent much of the tournament's later stages on the bench, leaving New Zealand without a specialist goal kicker. However, he did participate in the Melbourne games against Italy, which the All Blacks won 7–7, and the triumphs over Canada and Tonga. Despite being an All Black since 2003, he only obtained a permanent position as the first five-eighth in the team during the 2004 tour to the United Kingdom and France displacing Carlos Spencer. He was playing as a second five-eighths up until the 2004 Tri-Nations ended.
Carter appeared in the All Blacks' 48–18 triumph over the British & Irish Lions in 2005. He had two attempts, five goals, and four conversions. He finished the game with 33 points, surpassing the previous All Blacks record of 18 points in a Lions Test (Carter's second-half total of 22 points was sufficient to top this). The performance was later described by The Guardian as "the definitive fly-half display of the modern age."
In 2005, Carter was named IRB Player of the Year, becoming the first New Zealander to win the award.
Carter made the highest point scorer of all time on Friday, surpassing England's Jonny Wilkinson's previous record of 1,178, which was broken against France on Friday. Carter regained the lead on the first tri-nations match against South Africa on July 30, 2011. In 112 tests, he has scored a total of 1,598 test points (29 attempts, 293 conversions, 281 penalties, and 8 drop goals), with an average of 14.27 points per game (the highest average for players who have scored more than 500 Test points). Richie McCaw Carter and Nathan Woods earn 750,000 NZD a year as New Zealand's top-paid entertainer. As both players are regarded as integral to the 2011 Rugby World Cup, this high-paying union for the New Zealand Rugby Union is not subjected to form or fitness. Carter would captain the All Blacks against Canada for the first time against Canada on October 1st. However, Carter would miss the remainder of the 2011 Rugby World Cup after tearing a groin tendon during the final training session against Canada. Carter has agreed to re-sign with the NZRU until 2015.
In 2012, Carter was named IRB Player of the Year, but eyebrows were raised after he was not selected in the shortlist for New Zealand Player of the Year. When New Zealand defeated England by 30–22 at Twickenham on their end of year tour, Carter became the fifth All Black to play 100 caps.
After Carter agreed to play for Racing Metro in France on July 17, 2015, Carter and Richie McCaw played their last match in Christchurch together. Carter's last test in New Zealand in the Bledisloe Cup decider at Eden Park on August 15, a trophy he hasn't lost since his debut in the Bledisloe Cup. In a Men In Black themed safety film for Air New Zealand, McCaw appeared with McCaw later in a Men In Black themed safety video.
Carter kicked a drop goal that gave the All Blacks the winning moment in the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final against Australia, converted two tries, and converted two tries. He was named Man of the Match because of his appearances. For the third time since the All Blacks' victory, he was named IRB Player of the Year award.