Robert Green

Robert Paul Green is a retired goalkeeper who was born on 18 January 1980 in Chertsey, Surrey, England. In his professional career, which lasted nearly twenty years, he guarded the goals of Norwich City, West Ham United and Queens Park Rangers, and played 12 matches for the England national team.

Club career

Green began his professional career at Norwich City and played over 220 league matches for the club between 1999–2006. He kept goal as Norwich won the First Division title and promotion to the Premier League in the 2003–04 season; He was selected to the league's team of the year in the same season. He moved to West Ham United in 2006, and became the club's player of the year as voted by the fans in the 2007–08 season.

After being in the West Ham squad that won the Championship play-off final in 2012, he went to Queens Park Rangers as a free agent and in 2014, this time he lifted the play-off cup with QPR.

He joined Leeds United in 2016 and played for one season. He spent the next two seasons as a reserve goalkeeper at Huddersfield Town and Chelsea; He did not play an official match for Chelsea. In May 2019, after Chelsea won the Europa League final, he announced his retirement from football at the age of 39.

national team

He played for England 12 times between 2005 and 2012. In the opening match against the USA in the 2010 World Cup, he could not control Clint Dempsey's long shot and could not prevent the ball from going into the net; The match ended 1-1 and Green was not included in the squad for the remaining matches of the tournament.

This moment remains one of the most remembered moments of his career, but it did not overshadow his long and consistent career at club level.