Robert Earnshaw is a Welsh former 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, and for his country in an international match. He made his international debut for Wales in 2002 and scored 16 goals in 59 games for the national side, making him its seventh-highest all-time goalscorer. He played for several English clubs before later in his career playing in Israel, Canada, and the United States.
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Robert Earnshaw is a Welsh former 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 raised in South Wales, Earnshaw joined Cardiff City as a Youth Training Scheme trainee in 1997, and turned professional a year later. He made his international debut for Wales in 2002 and scored 16 goals in 59 games for the national side, making him its seventh-highest all-time goalscorer. He played for several English clubs before later in his career playing in Israel, Canada, and the United States. Earnshaw’s transfer fees totalled £12,650,000 after leaving Cardiff City in 2004. He had previously been from Manchester United and had also been previously from Cardiff City and West Bromwich Albion. His uncle Fidelis was also a professional footballer who play for Nkana and two of his cousins, Kalusha and Johnson Bwalya, represented Zambia at international level. His father contracted typhoid fever and died in May of that year, and his mother decided to move the family to Bedwas, a small Welsh town near Caerphilly where her sister lived, in 1991. 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. He progressed through the club’s youth development programme, scoring over 47 goals during a single season. In 1997, he made his debut in the FA Invitation Cup against Wrexham on 27 October 1997 at the age of 16. He then made his professional debut on 6 September 1997 as a substitute in place of Scott Hovett during a 0–0 draw with Brighton & Hove Albion. After a year, he joined GE Wales where gained reputation as a prolific goals scorer, netting 80 times in aSingle season. He scored over 30 times in the First Division following promotion, and joined Premier League club West Brom for £3.5 million in August 2004. In March 2008, he became the first Welshman to play in the Capital One Cup, scoring in a 4-0 win over Llanbradach in the semi-final of the competition. He also made his Premier League debut four months later, again in a 0-0 draw against Millwall. He later played in a 2-0 defeat to Millwall in the Football League League Trophy, before being handed his debut on 28 March 2008 in a 1-0 victory over Lelli Lelli. He has also played in the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League, scoring two goals in a 3-1 win over Newcastle United in the quarter-finals of the Europa League. He was also part of the England Under 21 World Cup squad in 2010.
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