Robert Earnshaw
Earnshaw playing for Wales in 2007
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Robert Earnshaw | ||
| Date of birth | 6 April 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Mufulira, Zambia | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1997–1998 | Cardiff City | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2004 | Cardiff City | 183 | (86) |
| 2000 | → Greenock Morton (loan) | 3 | (2) |
| 2004–2006 | West Bromwich Albion | 43 | (12) |
| 2006–2007 | Norwich City | 45 | (27) |
| 2007–2008 | Derby County | 22 | (1) |
| 2008–2011 | Nottingham Forest | 98 | (35) |
| 2011–2013 | Cardiff City | 19 | (3) |
| 2012–2013 | → Maccabi Tel Aviv (loan) | 10 | (2) |
| 2013 | Toronto FC | 26 | (8) |
| 2014 | Blackpool | 1 | (0) |
| 2014 | Chicago Fire | 5 | (3) |
| 2015 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC | 9 | (2) |
| 2015 | → Whitecaps FC 2 (loan) | 3 | (2) |
| Total | 466 | (183) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1998–2001 | Wales U21 | 10 | (1) |
| 2002–2012 | Wales | 59 | (16) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:54, 11 October 2015 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 August 2012 |
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Robert Earnshaw (born 6 April 1981) is a former Welsh international footballer who played as a forward. He is the only player to have scored a hat-trick in the Premier League, all three divisions of the English Football League, the League Cup, the FA Cup, and for his country in an international match.
Born in Zambia and settled in South Wales, Earnshaw joined Cardiff City as a Youth Training Scheme (YTS) trainee in 1997, and turned professional a year later. He played for several English clubs before later in his career playing in Israel, Canada, and the United States. After leaving Cardiff City in 2004, Earnshaw's transfer fees totalled £12,650,000. He made his international debut for Wales in 2002 and scored 16 goals in 59 games for the country, making him their seventh-highest goalscorer of all time
Earnshaw was born on the outskirts of the Zambian mining town of Mufulira on 6 April 1981. When he was five, his family moved to Malawi where his father, David Earnshaw, took charge of another coal mine and his youngest son began school. Again, the family's stay was to be a short one. In September 1990, following the death of her husband, Rita moved the Earnshaw family to Bedwas, a small Welsh town.
"It was the first time I had been away from Africa." he recalls. "It was just completely different, from one extreme to another. It was much colder as well, just every little thing was different, everyone spoke English over here and although I could speak a little bit I had to learn. But when you're a kid you just get on with it."
It was in Wales that he began playing football, kicking a ball around with friends between and after classes at Cardinal Newman RC School, Pontypridd, the school he moved on to after a spell at St. Helen's Primary. Cardinal Newman's was a rugby union-playing school so Earnshaw's first organised football match came at the age of 12 with local youth side Llanbradach. "We didn't win anything, we weren't the best," he says. "I only played one year and then I moved to GE Wales, which was a better team and we won a few local titles. I scored a lot of goals, 80 one season, 60 another when I was 14, 15, 16."
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