Robbie Doyle (born 22 April 1982, Bray) is an Irish retired soccer player.

Career

The "journeyman" started his career with Blackburn Rovers spending 3 years at the club. He returned home to sign for his home town club

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in time for the 2001/02 season making his League of Ireland debut as a substitute at Tolka Park on 9 November. He made a handful of appearances at the club when

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offered him regular first team football at UCD and so Doyle was on his way again. He scored on his debut for UCD on the first day of the 2002/03 season against

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and his performances that season impressed Stephen Kenny enough to offer him a move to Bohemians at the end of the season. Doyle made a decent start to life at Dalymount and played in all of Bohs' four

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qualifiers but he fell out with Kenny and in mid-2004, he returned once again to

St Patrick's Athletic St Patrick's Athletic Football Club ( ga, Cumann Peile Lúthchleas Phádraig Naofa) is a professional Irish association football club based in Inchicore, Dublin, that plays in the Irish Premier Division. Founded in May 1929, they played origin ...

. He has since played for

(again) and

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. On 4 July 2007, Doyle agreed to sign for Dundalk from

. He was released at the end of the 2007 season by Dundalk and signed for Sporting Fingal F.C. at the start of the 2008 season and ended the season as First Division top scorer. Fingal achieved promotion to the Premier Division in 2009 and better was to come as Fingal and Doyle won the

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when beating

Sligo Rovers Sligo Rovers Football Club ( ga, Cumann Peile Ruagairí Shligigh) is an Irish professional football club playing in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland. The club is based in Sligo in the west of Ireland. The club was founded in 1928 ...

2–1 at Tallaght Stadium. On 4 March 2010 he re-signed for Bray Wanderers. In his three spells at his hometown club Doyle scored 5 goals in 59 total appearances.

International career

He has also represented Ireland at Under-15, Under-16, Under-17, Under-18 and Under-21 levels. He got his only U21 cap in Finland in 2002. Playing for Ardmore Rovers he was part of the team that won the Nordic Cup in August 1998 scoring the winner against Iceland and Norway. Then scoring the opening goal in the final win over England. He scored twice against France while playing for Ireland Under 17s.

Personal life

In April 2005 Doyle's older brother Richie died suddenly of

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. From 2011, he has been used in various advertising campaigns nationwide as a male model, featuring heavily in BMW's ad for Winter 2011. He currently resides in the seaside village of Greystones, County Wicklow, living with his wife Nikki and their daughter Nahla. Since his modelling and football days, he is now known as a very talente
singer songwriter

Honours

: **

Sporting Fingal Sporting Fingal Football Club ( ga, Cumann Peile Fine Gall Spórtúil) was an Irish association football club based in Fingal. Between 2008 and 2010, the club played three seasons in the League of Ireland. During their first two seasons they pl ...

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Doyle, Robbie 1982 births Living people Republic of Ireland men's association footballers Republic of Ireland men's under-21 international footballers Republic of Ireland men's youth international footballers League of Ireland players Blackburn Rovers F.C. players St Patrick's Athletic F.C. players Bray Wanderers F.C. players University College Dublin A.F.C. players Bohemian F.C. players Macclesfield Town F.C. players English Football League players Dundalk F.C. players Sporting Fingal F.C. players Expatriate men's footballers in England Irish expatriate sportspeople in England Republic of Ireland expatriate men's association footballers Men's association football forwards Sportspeople from Bray, County Wicklow Association footballers from County Wicklow