Will Greenwood (born October 20 1972 in Blackburn, Lancashire) is an English rugby union player. He plays his club rugby for the Zurich Premiership side Harlequins, having also played for Leicester Tigers.

Born in Blackburn, his father Dick Greenwood played at flanker for and later coached the England Rugby team. He left Harlequins and moved to Leicester Tigers in 1996 because the presence of England centre Will Carling meant he could not get first team rugby.

Despite some impressive performances for Leicester in 1997, he was overlooked by the England coach Jack Rowell, but was selected for the 1997 British Lions tour to South Africa still uncapped, and ahead of then England captain Phil de Glanville. During the tour, in a accident he stopped breathing for several minutes after hitting his head on the hard ground, and did not play in any of the tests.

Subsequently picked by new England coach and ex-Tigers centre Clive Woodward he became an important part of that team, notably establishing a centre partnership with Jeremy Guscott. He moved back from Tigers to 'Quins after succumbing to poor form, not helped by the arrival of Australian Pat Howard that prevented him from getting first team rugby. He rebounded and became an integral part of England's 2003 World Cup Victory.

In 2005 Greenwood was injured for the Six Nations, but was selected 2005 British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand, his third Lions tour.

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