Editing Mark Cueto (section)

==Biography==
Mark Cueto was born to Frank and Anne Cueto. He has a sister called Rachel. He owes his surname to his Spanish great-grandfather, Antonio, who sailed from [[Santander, Cantabria|Santander]] in the 1900s and settled in [[Maryport]], Cumbria, where he set up a fish-and-chip shop.<ref name="Rugby Union: Making his Mark">{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article404079.ece?token=null&offset=0&page=1|title=Rugby Union: Making his Mark|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=19 December 2004|access-date=5 August 2010 | location=London | first=David | last=Walsh}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> His Cumbrian home town of [[Workington]] is in an area more associated with [[rugby league]] than union. Although he played his first rugby game as an eight-year-old in [[Workington]], and played after he moved with his parents to [[Wolverhampton]], he did not grow up playing the game. When he was 10 years old, his parents moved again to [[Crewe]], where he took up [[association football|football]] instead of rugby, becoming a keen Manchester United fan.<ref name="Cueto eyes Old Trafford debut">{{cite news|url=http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid=%7B48C41513%2DA376%2D4D1F%2D981D%2D660FC5BB193E%7D&newsid=6633886|title=Cueto eyes Old Trafford debut|publisher=Manchester United official Website|date=4 June 2009|access-date=5 August 2010}}</ref> He did not play rugby again until he was 17. His early clubs were [[Crewe & Nantwich RUFC]],  [[Sandbach RUFC]] and [[Altrincham Kersal]], with the latter he won the [[Cheshire RFU Plate]] in 1998.

Then, when he was 17 and in his final A-level year at [[Alsager School|Alsager Comprehensive]], there was the annual rugby match against Holmes Chapel. It was an occasion of no great importance. Holmes Chapel had a reasonable team, but rugby players were thin on the ground at Alsager and there was not much debate about the likely result. To make up a team, Alsager teacher Lindsay Purcell recruited a number of footballers. Cueto was one of those press-ganged into service, though when it came to sport he was easily persuaded. Football was number one but he had also done athletics, basketball, volleyball and cricket.<ref name="Rugby Union: Making his Mark"/>

Cueto is married to Suzie (née Richards), originally from Corby in Northamptonshire, who works in the Manchester United FC hospitality department. She gave birth to a baby boy called Max, their first child, on 6 August 2010. The couple have two more sons called Louis (b. 2013) and Joshua (b. 2018). They live together in Altrincham. He is a graduate of [[Manchester Metropolitan University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mmu.ac.uk/alumni/notable.php?a=4 |title=Notable Alumni in Sport |publisher=Manchester Metropolitan University |access-date=24 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412132928/http://www.mmu.ac.uk/alumni/notable.php?a=4 |archive-date=12 April 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2009, Cueto was featured in a campaign of male underwear for [[Jockey International]]. He also appeared as a guest in two episodes of the quiz show ''[[A Question of Sport]]'' in 2005.