Kevin Doyle (soccer player)

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Kevin Doyle
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Kevin Doyle at Reading FC (2008)
Personnel
Surname Kevin Edward Doyle
birthday September 18, 1983
place of birth Adamstown ,  Ireland
size 180 cm
position Storm
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2001-2003 St Patrick's Athletic 10 0(0)
2003-2005 Cork City 75 (25)
2007-2009 Reading FC 155 (55)
2009-2015 Wolverhampton Wanderers 164 (30)
2014 →  Queens Park Rangers  (loan) 9 0(2)
2014-2015 →  Crystal Palace  (loan) 3 0(0)
2015-2017 Colorado Rapids 71 0(16)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2002-2005 Ireland U-21 11 0(6)
2006-2017 Ireland 63 (14)
1 Only league games are given.

Kevin Edward Doyle (born September 18, 1983 in Adamstown , County Wexford ) is a retired Irish football player.

Career

society

The Irish striker began his career at local Adamstown FC and his first professional club was St Patrick's Athletic , which he joined in September 2001. He first played there for the U-18 team, but quickly qualified for the first team and from then on played in the national league. In February 2003, Doyle moved to Cork City . There he scored 25 goals before moving to Reading FC in June 2005 for 117,000 euros . With Reading FC, Doyle was promoted to the English Premier League in 2006 . For the 2009/10 season he moved to Wolverhampton Wanderers for just under 6.7 million pounds .

On January 31, 2014 Doyle was loaned to the second division side Queens Park Rangers for the remainder of the 2013-14 season. On his first appearance for Rangers on February 1, 2014, he scored the 1-0 opening goal against Burnley FC (3: 3) in the seventh minute of the game. From 2015 Doyle ended his career with the Colorado Rapids in the American Major League Soccer and ended his active career in September 2017.

National team

Doyle began his international career for the Irish U-21 team on February 2, 2004 against Portugal. On March 1, 2006, he made his debut for the national team of Ireland on the occasion of a friendly against Sweden . He scored his first goal for Ireland against San Marino in November 2006. He was nominated for the European Championship in 2012 , which was used in two games, but was eliminated with his team after the preliminary round. In the following qualification for the 2014 World Cup , which Ireland missed, he only came to three appearances. He scored the 2-1 winner in the 90th minute in the first qualifying game against Kazakhstan on September 7, 2012 . After the missed World Cup qualification, he was only used in friendly games apart from a European Championship qualifier in November 2014 against Gibraltar. Although he had only played one international match since the match against Gibraltar in March 2016, in which he had to be substituted after 27 minutes due to an injury, he was joined by national coach Martin O'Neill on May 12, 2016 in the provisional 35 players Called for the EM 2016 . But he still played during the EM preparations until two days before the final squad nomination in the USA and was ultimately not considered for the EM finals. Among the players not included, he is the player with the most international matches and goals.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.transfermarkt.de/kevin-doyle/transfers/player/35193 Transfermarkt
  2. ↑ BBC Sport Football: QPR sign Kevin Doyle from Wolves (English; article from January 31, 2014)
  3. ↑ BBC Sport Football: QPR 3-3 Burnley (English; match report from February 1, 2014)
  4. ↑ After 16 years as a professional: Doyle ends his career on transfermarkt.de, accessed on September 30, 2017.
  5. ↑ bbc.com: Republic of Ireland 1-0 Switzerland
  6. ^ Republic of Ireland - Provisional squad
personal data
SURNAME Doyle, Kevin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doyle, Kevin Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Adamstown , Ireland