Helge Payer

Helge Payer's second act is what really fascinates me. The Wels-born goalkeeper, standing 184 cm, guarded the net for the Austria national team, and goalkeeping is the loneliest job in the sport, where a single mistake becomes a goal and the pressure never lets up. That a man who carried that weight reinvented himself as a journalist after hanging up his gloves is wonderfully fitting. Having protected the pitch with his eyes, he now shapes the game with words. Born in 1979, he chose to compete on an entirely new field in life's second half, and I find that kind of fearless reinvention deeply admirable.

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Name (English)

Helge Payer

Name (Japanese)

ヘルゲ・パイヤー

Reading

へるげ・ぱいやー

Born

August 9, 1979 (age 47)

Origin

Wels, Upper Austria, Austria

Height

184 cm

Occupation

association football player / journalist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Goat

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helge%20Payer
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%98%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45264

Tags

• Upper Austria
• association football player
• journalist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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