fullname years clubs caps goals birth_place nationalteam height position nationalcaps nationalyears birth_date article_title name nationalgoals
mark elrick 1996 2001 2001 -- 2002 2006 -- 1996 -- 1999 1999 -- 2000 2000 -- waitakere onehunga sports hawke 's bay united city f.c. central united football kingz central united 6 4 1 1 auckland , new zealand new zealand 1.68 m ftin on striker 30 1995 -- 2000 07 april 1967 mark elrick
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mark elrick

mark elrick -lrb- born 7 april 1967 in auckland -rrb- is a retired new zealand soccer player who last played as a striker for hawke 's bay united .
he is mostly being used as a substitute , due to his age .
he has played for several teams in his native country and came out of retirement in november 2006 to join struggling hawke 's bay .
he had been player-coach at onehunga sports in auckland for the last two years .
a spectator at hawke 's bay 's 2-1 loss to waitakere united elrick approached jonathan gould after the match and asked if the park island club would be interested in his services .
an agreement was immediately reached on the spot .
also , he works occasionally as a football commentator for sky tv .
elrick scored a hat-trick in the final of the 1999 new zealand national soccer league , a match which central united won 3-1 over dunedin technical .
he has played 40 times for the new zealand national soccer team , the all whites , including 30 a-internationals in which he scored 4 goals .
