Joe Hart

Joe Hart Biography

Charles Joseph John Hart is an English footballer who plays as a goalkeeper and is popularly known as Joe Hart. He was born in Shrewsbury, England on April 19, 1987, and is the son of Charles Hart and Louise Hart.

In 2003, he began his football career in the English second division team Shrewsbury Town, in which he played 46 games until 2006. In that same year, he went to Manchester City and only played two games, so the citizen team sent him to Tranmere Rovers of the Second Division, where he had 6 appearances. Even with the little rhythm of competition that Hart had, he was called by England’s under-20 team to play in the World Cup qualifiers in Canada. After the Under 20 World Cup, Manchester City sent him to Blackpool FC, where he played 5 games and was the best player in each of them, saving key victories of his team.

The excellent performance shown by Hart made Sven-Göran Eriksson, coach of Manchester City at that time, interested in getting the services of the great goalkeeper. At that time he was also called for the first time to the England senior national team, where he made his debut in a match against the selection of Trinidad and Tobago.

At the beginning of the 2009-2010 season, Manchester City decided to relinquish goalkeeper Hart, as they had hired Shay Given as the first goalkeeper. The new team where Joe Hart was sent was Birmingham City. He had a successful season playing as a starter on 41 occasions, came out in several games, which caught the attention of Fabio Capello, coach of the England national team, who included him in the squad for the 2010 World Cup.

In the 2010-2011 season, he returned to Manchester City, where he had chances to play in some games, where he showed good performance, which made him consolidate in the starting team of the citizens. On August 14, 2010, he was the man of the match in a league game against Tottenham, after making five extraordinary saves that saved City from defeat. On August 23 of that same year, he was chosen as the player of the match again, after stopping 4 goal balls, saving the fall of his team.

In a match against the U-21 Swedish national team, he scored his first goal, after a definition from the penalty spot, where England won by 5-4. In that season, Joe Hart renewed his contract with Manchester City until 2016, where he played a total of 345 games.

Disputed the Eurocopa 2012 with the England national team, where he started in every game until the quarterfinal, where England was eliminated.

On May 12, 2014, he was summoned to play the World Cup in Brazil, where he played in the 3 games, to which England failed to overcome the group stage.

Joe Hart renewed his contract with Manchester City for 5 seasons, until 2019. The player was on loan for one year with Torino F.C and in the 2017-2018 season at West Ham although his card remains Manchester City.

He was called up to the England national team that disputed the qualifiers to Russia 2018, and which obtained the 9 of October to ratify its classification to that competition.