Andreas Ivanschitz

When I think of Andreas Ivanschitz, I picture the Austrian captain's armband he wore so young. The 184cm attacking midfielder from Eisenstadt built an 18-year career as a footballing nomad, moving from Rapid Wien and Red Bull Salzburg to Panathinaikos, Mainz, Levante, the Seattle Sounders and beyond. He carried home-nation pressure at Euro 2008. What I respect about this Croatian-rooted playmaker isn't any single trophy, but the quiet resilience of repeatedly arriving in a new country, a new language, a new dressing room, and earning trust from scratch. That kind of adaptable persistence is its own underrated form of talent.

Name (English)

Andreas Ivanschitz

Name (Japanese)

アンドレアス・イヴァンシッツ

Reading

あんどれあす・いゔぁんしっつ

Born

October 15, 1983 (age 42)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Boar

Origin

Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria

Height

184 cm

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.andreasivanschitz.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/andivan.23/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%83%E3%83%84

Tags

• Burgenland
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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