Robert Cornthwaite (footballer)

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Robert Cornthwaite
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Cornthwaite playing for Adelaide United in 2009
Personal information
Full name Robert Richard Cornthwaite
Date of birth (1985-10-24) 24 October 1985 (age 39)
Place of birth Blackburn, England
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Position(s) Centre back / Right Back
Team information
Current team
 Selangor FA
Number 2
Youth career
Adelaide City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003 Adelaide City 21 (0)
2004 Enfield City Falcons 19 (1)
2005 White City Woodville 3 (2)
2005–2011 Adelaide United 103 (4)
2006 → Adelaide Olympic (loan) 8 (0)
2011–2014 Jeonnam Dragons 91 (7)
2015- Selangor FA 22 (4)
International career‡
2007 Australia U-23 6 (1)
2009– Australia 8 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of January 02, 2016
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of January 02, 2016

Robert Richard Cornthwaite (born 24 October 1985 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England) is an English-Australian footballer who plays for Selangor FA in the Malaysia Super League.

Club career

Adelaide United

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Cornthwaite warming up in 2008.

Cornthwaite signed for United for the inaugural A-League season and spent the majority of his first two seasons starting on the bench. In the 2007–08 he started all of his 19 league appearances; he scored the opening goal in just the third minute against Pohang Steelers in Adelaide United's opening game of the 2008 Asian Champion League.[2]

As of half time of Adelaide United's away game against J League 5 time champions Kashima Antlers in the quarter finals of the 2008 AFC Champions League, Robert scored an accidental own goal to put Kashima level with Adelaide 1–1 after a spectacular goal from Adelaide captain Travis Dodd which came after a cross from vice-captain Lucas Pantelis in the 38th minute. The match being the first leg of the 2 teams Quarter finals match dated on Wednesday 17 September in Japan. He redeemed himself though in the second leg where he scored the winner in the 73rd minute with the game locked at 0–0. Adelaide went on to win 2–1 on aggregate and advance to the semi-finals.[3]

Robert Cornthwaite made his 50th A-League appearance in the 1–0 win over Perth Glory on 27 December 2008.[4][5] Cornthwaite signed a new three-year contract with Adelaide United in October 2009.[6]

Jeonnam Dragons

On 8 March 2011, Cornthwaite announced that he had signed for Jeonnam Dragons in the Korean K-League on a 2-year contract.[7][8]

Selangor

Robert joined the Malaysian Super League outfit in early 2015 and have scored a few goals for the club. He has a wage of RM 80,000 per month. He is also selected to play for Malaysian XI in a friendly match against Tottenham Hotspurs in July 2015.

In January 2016 his contract with Selangor FA was continued after Selangor fans forced the Football Association of Selangor to continue his contract by using the social media.

International career

Cornthwaite made his first senior international debut for the Socceroos on 4 March 2009 in an AFC Asian Cup qualifying match versus Kuwait. He scored his first international goal in against South Korea in a 2012 friendly.[9]

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 14 November 2012 Hwaseong Stadium, Hwaseong, South Korea  South Korea
1–2
1–2
 International Friendly
2. 9 December 2012 Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong, Hong Kong  Chinese Taipei
2–0
8–0
 2013 EAFF East Asian Cup
3. 6 February 2013 Estadio Municipal de Marbella, Marbella, Spain  Romania
2–1
2–3
 Friendly

Career statistics

(Correct as of 22 March 2010)

Club Season League1 Cup International2 Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Adelaide United 2005–06 12 – – – – – 12 –
2006–07 8 1 6 – – – 14 1
2007–08 19 – 5 – 1 – 25 –
2008–09 20 2 3 – 13 2 36 4
2009–10 19 – – – – – 19 –
2010–11 25 1 – – 6 2 31 3
Total 103 4 14 0 20 4 137 8
2015 Selangor FA 20 2 12 0 0 0 34 2
2016 - - - - - - - -

1 – includes A-League final series statistics
 2 – includes FIFA Club World Cup statistics; AFC Champions League statistics are included in season commencing after group stages (i.e. 2008 ACL in 2008–09 A-League season etc.)

Honours

Club

Adelaide United

Selangor

References

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External links

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