Robert Earnshaw

Robert " Robbie" Earnshaw ( born April 6, 1981 in Mufulira, Zambia ) is a Welsh footballer. His father is from Wales and his mother from Zambia. Since 2013 he is at the Toronto FC under contract.

Career

Association

Earnshaw's first professional team was the Welsh capital club Cardiff City. 1999 pushed the attacker into the professional squad of the club. Previously, he played in the youth department of the Bluebirds. In order to give him more playing time, Earnshaw 2000 was awarded to Greenock Morton. There, however, he made just three games. After his return, the then young players developed a key player of the team and played in the starting lineup. In the summer of 2004 he moved to West Bromwich Albion. On 11 September 2004, he gave his competitive debut for the new club. Until his first goal for West Brom Earnshaw had to wait seven more games. On 6 November 2004, he contributed two goals in the 2-2 draw against his team at the team at Southampton. He became the first player to score in all four English professional leagues such by a hat-trick on 19 March 2005. Although he at Bromwich usually held the Joker role in his first year, with 14 goals Earnshaw was the best attacker of the team. For his excellent performance, he was awarded the Ronnie Allen Trophy. Due to the obligations of Diomansy Kamara and Nathan Ellington competition grew in the following year. For this reason, the Welsh decided in January 2006 to switch to Norwich City. There he played himself in the starting lineup and scored regular goals for Norwich.

On 29 June 2007 Earnshaw signed at Derby County. With a transfer fee of 3.5 million pounds, he became the most expensive at this time transfer the club's history. On 11 August 2007, he came to his debut in the dress of the new employer. After less than a year, players and club parted again. Unlike his previous stations, the striker at Derby County could not prevail and scored only one league goal. In May 2008, Nottingham Forest secured the little dribbling player's services for 2.65 million pounds. There Earnshaw was back to its former strength. In his first season with the new club he scored 12 goals in 32 games and thus was the top scorer of his team in the Football League Championship 2008 /09. At the end of the season Forest almost reaching relegation under new coach Billy Davies, who replaced during the year Colin Calderwood. The season 2009/10 was significantly positive for the club with a third place in the regular season. The promotion to the Premier League was missed by two defeats in the first play-off round against FC Blackpool however. Earnshaw scored 17 goals in 34 league games and was once again the best scorer of his team. On 5 December 2009, he 's 5-1 home win over Leicester City his first hat-trick for his new club succeeded. After again just missing out on promotion to the Football League Championship 2010/ 11 of the Treaty of Earnshaw (34 games / 8 goals) ran out. The reduced supply of the Association for a contract extension he refused and joined free transfer to Cardiff City.

On September 20, 2012 Earnshaw moved on loan to Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv. Since 2013 he is at the Toronto FC under contract.

National

Earnshaw heard since 2002 on a regular basis to the Executive of the Welsh national team. He made his debut in 2002 in a friendly match. On 14 May 2002 Earnshaw stood by his debut game for the senior team in the starting of the Welsh. In the 1-0 win over Germany he scored the winning goal for his team.

Achievements

• Winning the Football League Second Division with Cardiff City: 2003