Eljero Elia

Eljero Elia is the kind of winger I always enjoyed watching, the type who could beat a defender on pure pace and unbalance a back line in seconds. What stands out to me is how far his career roamed: from ADO Den Haag and Twente at home to Hamburg, a spell at Juventus, Werder Bremen, then back to Feyenoord before Istanbul Basaksehir. That itinerary reads like a footballer chasing the next challenge rather than settling. At 176 centimeters he relied on quickness over size, and I think that explosive style is exactly why Dutch fans remember him.

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Name (English)

Eljero Elia

Name (Japanese)

エルイェロ・エリア

Reading

えるいぇろ・えりあ

Born

February 13, 1987 (age 39)

Origin

Voorburg, South Holland, Netherlands

Height

176 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rabbit

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eljero%20Elia
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201896

Tags

• South Holland
• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.