Profile Joe Hart

Personal information

Full name : Charles Joseph John Hart
Date of birth : 19 April 1987
Place of birth : Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Height : 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Playing position : Goalkeeper
Club information :
Current club : Manchester City
Number : 25
Youth career
Shrewsbury Town
Senior career
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
2003–2006 Shrewsbury Town
2006– Manchester City
2007 → Tranmere Rovers (loan)
2007 → Blackpool (loan)
2009-2010 Birmingham City (loan)
2010-2011 Manchester City
National team
2005–2007 England U19
2007–2009 England U21
2008– England

Club career

Shrewsbury Town

Hart was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and attended Oxon Primary School, chased via Meole Brace School Science College in Shrewsbury, where he was Head Boy in his final year. Whilst he was motionless a Year 11 pupil at the college, he rode with the first team squad of his hometown club, Shrewsbury Town, to Exeter City on 1 February 2003. He was a non-playing substitute on that occasion and fulfilled that role again versus Rochdale at Gay Meadow on 1 March 2003, motionless several six weeks brief of his 16th birthday. This suit yielded Shrewsbury's final victory in a season that culminated in relegation to the Conference. During the one season that Shrewsbury consumed in the Conference, Hart prepared his senior debut on twenty April 2004, a day afterwards his 17th birthday. He played the full 90 minutes in the suit against Gravesend & Northfleet. Four days subsequent, he granted three at Morecambe.
Hart did not play again until April of the chasing year, as Scott Howie dominated goalkeeping duties. With Shrewsbury rear in the Football League (the newly-renamed League Two) and beleaguered, Hart played six suits, conceding four goals.
From the begin of the 2005–06 season, Hart prepared the stair upward into the first team, and became the club's first option goalkeeper, asserting the figure 1 shirt. He played a full 46 suit league season, conceding 55 goals. Despite conceding more than one target per game, Hart won plaudits for his physical plays, winning his first England U-19 cap in October 2005, as a substitute against Poland.

Hart also found admirers in the Premiership, with a figure of top-flight scouts attending matches. On thirty November 2005, the Shropshire Star newspaper reported that Everton goalkeeping bus Chris Woods had been current at Town's earlier league suit, a 4–3 loss at Rochdale. Shrewsbury employer Gary Peters said "Everton have been to watch him, but you could say the same approximate Arsenal, Chelsea and every other team in the Premiership". Speculation approximate his future lasted for the duration of the season, and with the presence of their goalkeeping bus Tim Flowers at a figure of suits, Manchester City became the majority possible of his suitors.

On seven February 2006, Hart was broadcast as the lid League Two actor in the PFA Fans' Player of the Month Awards for January 2006. Football fans voted him as the best actor in the division by mechanism of the PFA's website. At the PFA Awards ceremony on 23 March 2006, it was broadcast that Hart had been voted as League Two's best goalkeeper for 2005–06 via his fellow experts, earning him a position in the PFA League Two Team of the Year.

Manchester City

With Hart in Belgium preparing to produce his fifth arrival for the England U19 squad, in the Elite qualifying around for the 2006 UEFA U-19 Championship,[10] it was broadcast that his shift to Manchester City had been completed.England no where the suit to Serbia and Montenegro and malfunctioned to qualify.
On 22 May 2006, City rewarded an original £600,000 for Hart, for a maximum of £1,500,000 founded on the figure of suits he plays.

Hart prepared his debut for City on 14 October 2006 afterwards injuries governed out Andreas Isaksson and Nicky Weaver for the Premier League suit against Sheffield United. He retained a wash page in the suit, which done goalless.

Loaned to Tranmere Rovers and thereafter Blackpool

Hart consumed the entire month of January 2007 on lend to League One club Tranmere Rovers. He prepared six arrivals and granted eight goals. He was thereafter dubbed in his then-club administrator Stuart Pearce's first squad in his part-time role as England U21 bus, alongside another goalkeeper uncapped at U21 horizontal, Ben Alnwick. He was not selected to begin the suit on six February 2007 against Spain, but did come on as a substitute late in the game.
In April 2007, Hart stringed Blackpool on lend as wrap for the injured trio of Rhys Evans, Paul Rachubka and Lewis Edge. He retained a wash page in a 2–0 win for Blackpool at Huddersfield Town on 9 April 2007, in his first game for the Seasiders. Blackpool won all five sport in which Hart emerged, encompassing a 6–3 win at Swansea City in his final game, and he facilitated them assert a position in the end-of-season play-offs, by mechanism of which they won promotion.

Return to Manchester City

On his return from a successful lend spell at Blackpool, prior Manchester City administrator, Sven-Göran Eriksson, dubbed Hart as Manchester City's figure 1 forward of Andreas Isaksson. After his performance against Newcastle United, Eriksson touted him as "one of the largest talents in this rural as a goalkeeper", and that he had the prospective to become an England global in the future. Only months subsequent, he prepared his England debut against Trinidad & Tobago on 1 June 2008. In October, he was inducted to Shropshire Schools & Colleges Football Association’s Hall of Fame along with good guy and prior teammate David Edwards in recognition of their achievements. Later that month, he gestured a fresh five-year contract.

After Isaksson's withdrawal to PSV Eindhoven, Hart took the unfilled figure 1 jersey as shortly as the official squad figures for the 2008–09 season were announced. However, his location as first-choice keeper was removed via Shay Given upon the Irishman's arrival at the club in January 2009.Birmingham City


Hart at Birmingham City

Having played no sport for City since Given's arrival, rumours originated to appear of a lend shift away from Manchester. City roped the transfer of Stuart Taylor from Aston Villa on 23 June 2009, paving the way for Hart to leave. Manager Mark Hughes had been undecided approximate approving the actor to ebb on lend as he was unwilling to sanction a permanent transfer. The chasing day it was broadcast that Hart would consume the 2009–10 Premier League season on lend to newly-promoted Birmingham City. He prepared his debut in Birmingham's opportunity suit of the season, a 1–0 defeat away to Manchester United. In the early fraction of the season, Hart prepared mistakes which price his side targets, and Maik Taylor's wash page against Manchester City, a suit for which Hart was ineligible, retired administrator Alex McLeish with a selection dilemma. McLeish chose Hart, whoever retained his position in the beginning eleven as Birmingham went on a club-record 12-match unbeaten run in the lid division and set a Premier League record via fielding the same beginning eleven for nine consecutive games. His plays improved: against Chelsea in December, he "showed not merely pointed sentence and reflexes, earning three exceptional saves ... but a shortage of dread also", regardless lacking staples in a gashed chief maintained as shortly as diving at the feet of Salomon Kalou. Hart was voted Birmingham City's Player of the Year for 2009–10,[26] and appointed for the 2010 PFA Young Player of the Year award alongside Wayne Rooney, Cesc Fàbregas and James Milner. Though Milner won that award, Hart earned a position in the PFA Team of the Year.

Return to Manchester City

After a successful spell at Birmingham City which earned him a position in the England squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Hart was selected forward of Shay Given to begin the opportunity game of the 2010–11 season against Tottenham Hotspur. He resulted a man-of-the-match performance, storing many contesting shots encompassing a deflected exertion from Benoît Assou-Ekotto, which facilitated City to draw the game 0-0. Hart also retained a wash page in Manchester City's 3-0 victory across Liverpool, where he was motionless first option goalkeeper and prepared even more good saves, sweetening his reputation even further. Hart granted his first target of the season from a late punishment via Darren Bent to seal a 1-0 win for Sunderland.

International career

Under-21

Hart was chosen via Stuart Pearce in the draft England Under-21 30-man squad for Euro 2007, and subsequent prepared the final 23. In the team's final friendly ago the finals, Hart was chosen for his first Under-21 begin, and played the full 90 minutes in a 5–0 win across Slovakia at Carrow Road. However, Hart took no fraction in the finals, with Scott Carson playing in all of England's four fixtures.
Hart was remembered to the U21s and was first option at the Euro 2009 finals. He began in the first pair team degree suits and was rested for the final suit as England had already potted its passage to the knock-out stage. In the semifinal against Sweden, he granted three targets in the second half as the suit ended 3–3 afterwards extra time but he prepared upward for it via storing a punishment and scoring another as England won 5–4 on penalties. However he was suspended for the final afterwards being controversially yellow-carded for retiring his queue to confer to Mikael Lustig as the Swede stepped upward to take the penalty.

Senior team

Having been a regular in the England U21 squad, Hart was paged upward via Fabio Capello to the full England squad for the friendly suits against USA and Trinidad & Tobago. An unused substitute against USA, he prepared his debut against Trinidad & Tobago, on 1 June 2008 at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain. He came on at half time for David James with England 2–0 upward, finally running out 3–0 winners. However, Hart's senior England debut did not earn Shrewsbury Town the expected dividend of £500,000 from Manchester City, as negotiated at fraction of his transfer in 2006, because it was not a competitive match.
Hart received a second call-up via Fabio Capello to face Czech Republic on twenty August 2008, but was not brought on. Hart was paged upward to the following England squad due to a drop-out from Blackburn Rovers goalkeeper Paul Robinson. On eight November 2009, he was paged upward for a friendly against Brazil.
Capello dubbed Hart in his temporary 30-man squad for the 2010 World Cup. Hart played the second half of both of England's warm-up sport, displacing Robert Green against Mexico and James against Japan, and retained a wash page in each case. All three goalkeepers, Hart, Green and James, were included in the final 23-man selection.

Hart did not character in the World Cup but began England's following suit, a friendly against Hungary, to earn his fourth cap. He granted his first England target in questionable circumstances as shortly as the ball emerged not to have traversed the queue from a deflection from Phil Jagielka, and prepared a crucial late save from Zoltan Gera as England won 2-1. Hart was given his first competitive cap in a Euro 2012 Qualifier, a 4-0 win v Bulgaria at Wembley, earning three vital saves, one of which he palmed away and establish a counter assail for an England goal.