Carl Robinson

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Carl ROBINSON
Personal information
Date of birth	13 October 1976
Place of birth	Llandrindod Wells, Wales
Playing position	Midfield
Club information
Current club	Toronto FC
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1995 - 2002 1996 2002 - 2004 2003 2003 2003 2004 2004 2004 - 2006 2005 - 2006 2006 - 2007 2007—	Wolves Shrewsbury Town (loan) Portsmouth Sheffield Wednesday (loan) Walsall (loan) Rotherham United (loan) Sheffield United (loan) Sunderland (loan) Sunderland Norwich City (loan) Norwich City Toronto FC	165 (19) 4 (0) 16 (0) 4 (1) 11 (1) 14 (0) 5 (0) 7 (1) 45 (4) 7 (0) 42 (2) 0 (0)
National team2
1999-	Wales U21 Wales	29 (1)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of August 27, 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

For the fictional character from "Highlander: The Series", see Carl Robinson (Highlander)

Carl Robinson (born 13 October 1976 in Llandrindod Wells) is a Welsh international football midfielder, currently with Major League Soccer new boys Toronto FC after being released by Norwich City on the 31 Jan 2007.

Contents 1 Club Career 2 International Career 3 Trivia 4 External links

[edit] Club Career

A combative player, he started his career as a trainee with Wolverhampton Wanderers, making his debut during the 1996-97 season. After over 180 appearances for Wolves over six seasons, he moved to Portsmouth in July 2002. He failed to establish himself at Portsmouth, and had loan spells at Sheffield Wednesday, Walsall, Rotherham, Sheffield United and Sunderland. After impressing at the latter, he signed a permanent deal with Sunderland in June 2004.

After a loan spell with Norwich City, he signed for The Canaries permanently for £50,000 on a 2½-year deal in January 2006. It was the first time in his career that a transfer fee had been paid for his services. Robinson scored his first goal for Norwich in the 5-1 win against Barnsley on 26 August 2006. He netted once more with a headed goal in the 3-1 victory over Leicester City on 28 November 2006. On January 31, Carl Robinson joined Toronto FC from Norwich after just over a year at Carrow Road.

[edit] International Career

A Wales international player, Robinson made his debut against Belarus in 1999 and has won 35 caps.

[edit] Trivia

He married Laura in the summer of 2003 and has a daughter.

[edit] External links

• Carl Robinson career stats at Soccerbase
• Biography at BBC Mid-Wales