Joe Hart
Hard at Euro 2012
Charles Joseph John "Joe" Hart ( born April 19, 1987 in Shrewsbury, England) is an English football goalkeeper. He is currently the goalkeeper of the English Premier League club Manchester City and the England national team.
Club career
Training (up to 2006)
His football career began when Joe Hart hometown club Shrewsbury Town. Even as a eleven year old schoolboy, he went with the first team in the team bus to away games of the club. His debut in the first team was hard on 20 April 2004 at the age of 17 years with a championship game in the Football Conference against FC Gravesend & Northfleet. He was, however, only the second goalkeeper and played until April 2005, no other league encounter. At the end of the season 2004/ 05 he came in six games of the Football League Two, had risen in the Shrewsbury Town meanwhile, used and cashed it four goals. In the coming season, Hart went as goalkeeper for Shrewsbury and ran in all 46 league games for the club, where he suffered 55 goals.
For his achievements Hart received widespread recognition and above the fourth English league, especially since he had been in October 2005 already in the U-19 selection his country against Poland. During the season 2005 /06, there were increasing speculation about an imminent transfer to a top English club, most notably the goalkeeper coach Chris Woods Everton and Tim Flowers of Manchester City is convinced capabilities locally by Harts.
Manchester City and hire stations (since 2006)
On May 22, 2006 Joe Hart has signed a contract with the "Citizens" of Manchester. The transfer fee was originally £ 600,000 plus an additional fee of £ 500,000 when Hart denies his first competitive match for the English national team, as well as additional amounts depending on the application number to a total of £ 1.5 million.
His first Premier League game for Manchester City, he played on 14 October 2006 was a goalless draw against Sheffield United, after the first two goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson and Nicky Weaver had failed due to an injury. In January 2007, his club loaned him for six league games of the third division Tranmere Rovers, where Hart suffered eight goals. In early February, he finally returned to Manchester City.
When the FC Blackpool in April 2007 after injury-related loss of three regular goalkeeper Rhys Evans, Paul Rachubka and Lewis Edge goalkeeper had worries, hard switched on loan in the English coastal town. His first game for Blackpool he played on 9 April 2007 in a 2-0 win over Huddersfield Town. Overall, Blackpool won all five games with hard and secure a place in the play-offs for promotion to the second-rate Football League Championship.
In the 2007 /08 season Hart pushed the Swedish goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson as goalkeeper of Manchester City. From the eight games he came regularly used and denied in the season a total of 26 Erstligapartien. For the season 2008/ 09 he took over the jersey number 1 of Isaksson after it was changed to the Dutch champions PSV Eindhoven. With two held penalty kicks in the penalty shootout against FC Midtjylland Hart also secured his club a place in the main round of the UEFA Cup. But when it was committed experienced Shay Given from Newcastle United for winter break this season, this hard- repressed directly back to the bench. To this being able to give more playing time again, Hart was awarded in the summer of 2009 to the league rivals Birmingham City, where he was the Northern Ireland goalkeeper Maik Taylor to compete. City in turn secured to hedge with Stuart Taylor from Aston Villa a suitable replacement for Hart.
Hart's debut in Birmingham was bumpy, as he started with a 0-1 defeat against Manchester United and made some mistakes early in the season. Moreover, since competitor Maik Taylor did not concede against Manchester City to coach Alex McLeish was in a difficult situation. McLeish decided on for Hart, who then had a big part in making the team a series of twelve games succeeded without defeat, which was in turn a club record in the English top flight. With his performance to Hartman also played into the circle of the English national team and impressed the world a 0-0 draw against Chelsea in December 2009, not only by " sharp judgment and reflexes, three extraordinary acts of salvation (...) but also with a fearlessness " during a defensive action against the out stretched foot of Salomon Kalou. Hart is one of the best goalkeepers in the Premier League. He was awarded for most games without goals conceded twice in a row (2010/11 and 2011 /12) with the Premier League Golden Glove.
He was with Manchester City in the 2011/12 season for the first time in 44 years after a 3-2 win over Queens Park Rangers English champion.
After shaky performance under new coach Manuel Pellegrini, he was banished to the bench until it stabilized again.
England national team
During his time at Shrewsbury Town Hart was appointed U -19 national team in the English, for whom he played his first international match against Poland in October 2005. Overall, Hart ran five times for this team, but failed to qualify for the U-19 European Championship 2006 in Poland.
In 2007, Hart completed his first game for the English U-21 national team in a 5-0 win over Slovakia. Once at the U- 21 Championship 2007 was Scott Carson had guarded the gate and Hart had not been used, he played a regular basis thereafter for the English U- 21 team and was their first-choice goalkeeper at the Euro 2009. Englishman attracted breaking into finals of the competition. Hart was doing the " tragic hero " by the extension penalty shoot a penalty scored in the semifinal against Sweden to a 3-3 draw itself, and another held the yellow card received, the imprisoned him for the final.
Finally, Hart was also appointed by the national coach Fabio Capello for the friendly matches against USA and Trinidad & Tobago in the English national team. After he had sat against the United States for another 90 minutes on the bench, he came on 1 June 2008 against Trinidad & Tobago in Port of Spain at his international debut at senior level. Hart was doing on in the half-time for David James and stayed with the 3-0 win without conceding a goal. In the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he was part of the English squad, came as the third goalkeeper but to no use. During the qualifying stage for the 2012 European Championship Hart was named as the goalkeeper of the national team for the European Championship. Alex Ferguson, manager of Manchester United, praised Hart: "He is probably the best English goalkeeper in the last 20 years."
Achievements
- English Championship: 2012
- FA Cup winner: FA Cup 2010/11
- FA Community Shield Winners: 2012
- Premier League Golden Glove ( 3): 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13