20 Facts About Carlos Spencer

Carlos James Spencer was born on 14 October 1975 and is a former New Zealand rugby union player and previously the head coach of the Eastern Province Kings and the Munakata Sanix Blues.

Carlos Spencer is currently an assistant coach for the New Orleans Gold of Major League Rugby.

Carlos Spencer generally specialised in the position of fly-half, known as "first five-eighth" or "number 10", although he played fullback at national and international levels.

Carlos Spencer played for the Blues Super 12 team from the inception of the competition in 1996 until 2005, and for the Auckland NPC side.

In 1996, Carlos Spencer played for the Blues in the first ever Super 12-match, kicking off the professional era of rugby union.

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Carlos Spencer went on to score 608 points for the Blues in the Super Rugby competition.

In January 2010 Carlos Spencer signed with the Johannesburg-based Golden Lions, to play for the team in the 2010 and 2011 Super Rugby seasons.

Carlos Spencer subsequently took up a coaching role with the team, before being released following the 2012 season.

Carlos Spencer moved to the Durban-based Sharks for the 2013 season.

Carlos Spencer was appointed as their head coach on 20 February 2014.

Carlos Spencer was in charge for just one Currie Cup season, 2014, where they achieved just one victory in ten matches.

Carlos Spencer first played for the All Blacks in a non-test tour match on 4 November 1995, but did not play his first test match until 1997.

Carlos Spencer was selected for the 1999 All Blacks World Cup squad but became injured in training at London, so did not play a match in that tournament.

However, following an exceptional season for the Blues in Super 12, Carlos Spencer became first-choice first five-eighth for the All Blacks in 2003, and was a part of the squad for the Rugby World Cup that year.

In 2004, Carlos Spencer struggled to find the same form he had displayed the previous year, and Mehrtens replaced him for the final game of that year's Tri Nations.

Carlos Spencer was then ruled out of the final All Black tour of the year through injury.

In 2005 Carlos Spencer lost form early in the Super 12 competition and then suffered a fractured cheekbone in training.

Carlos Spencer agreed to play for the New Zealand Maori against the touring Lions, but made himself unavailable for the All Blacks so that he would not miss training for his new English club, Northampton Saints.

Carlos Spencer was a handy, if not entirely reliable, goal kicker.

On 3 December 2011, Carlos Spencer stepped into the boxing ring against Rugby league's Awen Guttenbeil in Fight for Life 2011 in Auckland, New Zealand.