Robert Page (footballer)

Robert Page (footballer)

Robert Page (born 3 September 1974) is a Welsh former international football defender, who is now a youth team coach at Port Vale. In an eighteen-year career in the Premier League and the Football League he made 475 league appearances for six different clubs. He both captained a team and scored a goal in all top four divisions of English football.

He began his career with Watford in 1993, who he would captain to two successive promotions in 1998 and 1999, thereby winning the club a place in the top-flight of English football. Two years later he transferred to Sheffield United, where he would play over 100 games in a three-year stay. He signed with Cardiff City in 2004, before moving on to Coventry City the following year. In 2008 he moved on to Chesterfield via Huddersfield Town, before retiring in 2011.

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.