Robert John Page (born 3 September 1974) is a Welsh football manager and former professional footballer, who is currently the manager of the Wales national team. In an 18-year career in the Premier League and the English Football League, he made 550 competitive appearances for six different clubs. He both captained a team and scored a goal in each of the top four divisions of English football. He also gained 41 caps for Wales in a ten-year international career, captaining the side once, before he retired from international football in September 2006.
A defender, he began his career with Watford in 1993, whom he would captain to two promotions, winning the Second Division title in 1997–98 and the First Division play-off final in 1999. He went on to be voted the club's Player of the Season in their 1999–2000 Premier League campaign. He was sold to Sheffield United for a £350,000 fee in September 2001 and helped the club to reach the First Division play-off final in 2003, as well the semi-finals of the FA Cup and League Cup. He signed with Cardiff City in July 2004, before moving on to Coventry City in February 2005. He joined Huddersfield Town in January 2008, before moving on to Chesterfield in May 2008 and announcing his retirement in March 2011.
He worked as a coach at Port Vale for three years before he was appointed as manager, initially on a caretaker basis, in September 2014. In May 2016, he was appointed manager of Northampton Town on a three-year contract, but was sacked in January 2017. He was appointed Wales under-21 manager two months later, before becoming assistant manager for the senior team, led by Ryan Giggs, in August 2019. He became the team's caretaker manager in November 2020, when Giggs was suspended from duty, and oversaw two victories in the UEFA Nations League that secured Wales promotion into League A. He coached Wales at UEFA Euro 2020, where they would reach the Round of 16. In June 2022, he led Wales to qualification for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the country's first World Cup appearance since 1958.<\/P>","160343B2F56DD1006D4E7F061757C207":"33,280","3316B2DB0B85B0BE":"Wales","0FD504EDD8B1D3841B8B3A87EB81E7E9":"Wales","DF1F83E13127F6C1":"Robert Page","9AF366BFF83B51E6BE6603E9444757A4":"
FIFA World Cup<\/STRONG> UEFA European Championship<\/STRONG> UEFA Nations League CLUB<\/U><\/STRONG> First international:<\/STRONG> Top scorer: Biggest win Biggest defeat World Cup European Championship The Wales national football team (Welsh: Tîm pêl-droed cenedlaethol Cymru) represents Wales in international football. It is controlled by the Football Association of Wales (FAW), the governing body for football in Wales and the third-oldest national football association in the world, founded in 1876 (146 years ago).
Quarter-finals (1): 1958<\/P>
Semi-finals (1): 2016
British Home Championship
<\/STRONG>Winners (12): 1906–07, 1919–20, 1923–24, 1927–28, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1936–37, 1938–39 (shared), 1951–52 (shared), 1955–56 (shared), 1959–60 (shared), 1969–70 (shared)<\/P>
<\/STRONG>League B: 2020<\/P>","2CED97379BA5D88CE40611752FB01FA2":"
Watford<\/STRONG>
Football League Second Division: 1997–98
Football League First Division play-offs: 1999
INDIVIDUAL<\/U><\/STRONG>
Watford Player of the Season:<\/STRONG>
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Scotland 4-0 Wales
(Glasgow, Scotland; 26 March 1876)
Most caps:<\/STRONG>
Chris Gunter (100)<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Gareth Bale (33)<\/P>
<\/STRONG> Wales 11–0 Ireland
(Wrexham, Wales; 3 March 1888)<\/P>
<\/STRONG> Scotland 9–0 Wales
(Glasgow, Scotland; 23 March 1878)<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Appearances: 1 (first in 1958)
Best result: Quarter-finals, 1958<\/P>
<\/STRONG>Appearances: 2 (first in 2016)
Best result : Semi-finals, 2016<\/P>","AFC96B2FF8428221":"Cardiff","906FE566EA5D5A060738EC206CB55DB7":"Plymouth Chambers 3 Westgate Street","7316390EDD0778189C728D1A7D275848":"Wales","480882DFDB04CD6B51949E56E163439C":"0","C0FE8DFCAA690E72":"http:\/\/www.faw.cymru\/en\/","E7D2F501BA5F9F82CBF994866126F3A8":"
The team has qualified for the FIFA World Cup twice, in 1958 and 2022. In 1958, they reached the quarter-finals before losing to eventual champions Brazil. They then went 58 years before reaching their second major tournament, when – following a rise of 109 places from an all-time low of 117th to a peak of 8th in the FIFA World Rankings between August 2011 and October 2015– they qualified for UEFA Euro 2016, where they reached the semi-finals before again losing to the eventual champions, Portugal. A second successive UEFA European Championship followed when Wales reached the round of 16 of UEFA Euro 2020. They also progressed through UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying to the quarter-finals, though this was played on a two-legged, home-and-away basis and is not considered part of the finals tournament.
Historically, the Welsh team has featured a number of players from Wales' top club teams, Cardiff City and Swansea City. These two Welsh clubs play in the English league system alongside fellow Welsh clubs Newport County, Wrexham and Merthyr Town. However, the majority of Welsh football clubs play in the Welsh football league system. Wales, as a country of the United Kingdom, is not a member of the International Olympic Committee and therefore the national team does not compete in the Olympic Games.<\/P>","e_index":4};