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'''Robert Earnshaw''' ([[6 April]], [[1981]]- ) is a [[Zambia]]n-born [[Wales national football team|Welsh international]] [[football (soccer)|football]] player. |
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Earnshaw, also known as "Earnie", was born on the outskirts of the north central Zambian mining town of Mufulira on 6 April 1981. His English father, David, managed a nearby [[coal mine]] while his mother, Rita, played [[semi-professional]] football and looked after Earnie's three sisters and elder brother. "I remember quite a bit, most of it," says Earnie. "They're good memories. My Mum used to play football and I remember going to watch her play a couple of times, watching her training. Just playing with my friends as you do when you're a kid." |
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When Earnie was five, the family moved to [[Malawi]] where 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 [[Caerphilly]], a small [[Wales|Welsh]] town to the north of [[Cardiff]], where they lived initially with her sister. Earnie still has a house there. |
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"It was the first time I had been away from [[Africa]]." he recalls. "It was just completely different, from one to 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." |
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It was in Wales that he began playing football, kicking a ball around with friends between and after classes at Cardinal Newman's, the school he moved on to after a spell at St. Helen's Primary. Cardinal Newman's was a [[rugby union|rugby]]-playing school so Earnie's first organised football match came at the age of 12 with local youth side [[Lanbrachdach]]. "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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Those goals grabbed the attention of [[Cardiff City F.C.|Cardiff City]] youth team coach [[Gavin Tait]], earning the youngster an invite to training, and, on the 1st August [[1997]], a one-year YTS contract at [[Ninian Park]]. |
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In 2004 Earnshaw was transferred from Cardiff to [[West Bromwich Albion]] for a fee of £3 million. |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.earnie.tv/ Robert Earnshaw's offical site.] |
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[[Category:1981 births|Earnshaw, Robert]] |
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[[Category:Welsh footballers|Earnshaw, Robert]] |
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[[Category:West Bromwich Albion F.C. players|Earnshaw, Robert]] |
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Revision as of 17:48, 8 July 2005
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