Profile Kevin Edward Doyle

Personal information

Full name : Kevin Edward Doyle
Date of birth : 18 September 1983
Place of birth : Adamstown, County Wexford, Ireland
Height : 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Forward
Current club : Wolverhampton Wanderers
Number : 29
Senior career :
2002–2003 St Patrick's Athletic
2003–2005 Cork City
2005–2009 Reading
2009– Wolverhampton Wanderers
National team :
2002–2005 Republic of Ireland U21
2006– Republic of Ireland

Club career

Early career

Doyle noted for his first certified group St Patrick's Athletic in September 2001 on a free agent. Doyle at the start acted for the club's under 18 boundary but in months had made his League of Ireland début.

Cork City

He then had a winning curse with Cork City, who he united in February 2003, bonding up with his first St. Patrick's Athletic director Pat Dolan, who had freshly taken over at Turner's Cross. Doyle counted 25 goals for Cork City where he commenced playing on the right-wing but before long reverted to his natural location of striker. He in addition counted two goals from six appearances in the 2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup, embracing the champion in resistance to Dutch boundary NEC Nijmegen.

Reading

On 7 June 2005, Doyle noted for Reading on a two year deal from Cork City Ireland [1] for €117,000 (about £78,000). Despite having left Cork City, Doyle accepted a championship medal when they won the League of Ireland Premier Division in November 2005. Originally, he was noted as a back-up, but an damage to Dave Kitson granted him an possibility in the first assembly which he saved thanks to some valued goals along the way to 19 in total embracing the equalising objective at Leicester City that got the Royals endorsed to the Premier League for the first time in their past files on 25 March 2006. He became an intrinsic part of Reading's Championship-winning 2005–06 squad, and as showed by the Actim Index was one of the apex players in the Championship.[4] He was labelled the agent Reading FC competitor of the time of the year for 2005–06. In April 2006, he was in addition labelled as Championship Fans' Player Of The Year and one of the Championship Team of the Year[7] by the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA).
Doyle acted an valued job for Reading in the 2006–07 Premier League season. His first Premiership objective came in the Royals' 2–1 overcome at Aston Villa, when he overseen Reading in to a third-minute lead. Doyle commenced to present a many danger in the air, as long as the year 2007 he counted more headers than any other competitor in England's leagues.He was nominated for the youthful pfa competitor of the year but lost out to Cesc Fabregas. He closed the time of the year with 13 premier governing body goals after being curtailed with a frayed hamstring for two months.Reading were relegated in the 2007–08 time of the year, but they resolved to retain on Doyle and more of their apex players.

On 1 September 2008, he was bound with a progress to Aston Villa but in the end the striker waited at Reading. Doyle waited at Reading to a go and aid them recoil back to the apex plane tour in the 2008–09 season.He counted 18 governing body goals but the group failed to realise endorsement after closing fourth and suffer forfeit in the play-offs to Burnley.

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Doyle united newly-promoted Premier League boundary Wolverhampton Wanderers for an unidentified payment, stated to be a group record £6.5 million, in a four-year deal on 30 June 2009. Almost straight away he underwent an performance to get clear of a hernia which hindered his pre season. A farther less noteworthy damage chosen up while playing for the Republic of Ireland denoted Doyle was impelled to sit out the start of the 2009–10 Premier League operation before establishing his Wolves debut as a half-time replacement at Manchester City on 22 August. He counted his first objective for the group in a 2–1 household win in resistance to Fulham a month afterwards, the first of nine goals to date. As the time of the year has progressed, Doyle has been engaged in work as the spearhead in a 4–5–1 formation as the group fought and averted relegation, aiding the group close 15th and picking up the Players' Player of the Season Award.

International career

Doyle has acted for the Republic of Ireland U21 assembly, establishing his debut on 2 February 2004 in resistance to Portugal. With 11 caps, and counting six goals establishing him connection apex scorer at that level, he was in addition a component of the Irish FIFA World Youth Championship squad in 2003. Scored in resistance to Colombia He was called up to the major Republic of Ireland squad in October 2005, establishing his full global debut in resistance to Sweden at Lansdowne Road on 1 March 2006. His first start in a competent global was in resistance to Germany on 2 September 2006 in a Euro 2008 qualifier. With this facade, his family in addition won a €100 gamble at 100/1 they had left two years beforehand on Doyle playing competitively for Ireland.

Doyle counted his first objective for Ireland in resistance to San Marino in November 2006. He was then labelled the agent Football Association of Ireland Young Player of 2006 on 4 February 2007, in addition accepting a nomination for the major award.
His second objective came in a 1–0 win over Slovakia at Croke Park in March 2007. He in addition counted in resistance to Ecuador on 23 May 2007 sheltering a valiant 1–1 draw in resistance to the South Americans, and he counted his best objective for Ireland, with a long-range left-foot shot into the apex corner to the keeper's right, in a 2–2 draw in resistance to Slovakia on 9 September 2007 in the 2008 European Championships qualifying game in Bratislava. His fifth global objective and fourth in the Euro 2008 qualifying operation came away to Wales as Ireland drew 2–2.

During 2010 World Cup qualifying, Doyle established himself as Robbie Keane's faultless beat associate in the countrywide team's assaulting quartet that embraced Damien Duff and Aiden McGeady. He acted in 8 of the 10 recreational activities, counting two goals, embracing the first in a 2–1 win in the unclasping game in resistance to Georgia. He in addition counted in resistance to Cyprus, his seventh global objective, in a 2–1 win in Nicosia. In the nonexistence of Robbie Keane, Shay Given and other players who had been sanctioned to revisit to their groups, Doyle captained Ireland for the first time in a congenial in resistance to South Africa on the 8 September 2009. Doyle has been nominated as the Football Association of Ireland Player of the Year for 2007 and won the reward in 2009, as well as for Goal of the Year for his objective in resistance to Slovakia in September 2007. Doyle counted his ninth global objective, and first in 2012 European Championships condition, in resistance to Andorra at the Aviva Stadium on 7 September 2010