Lutz Pfannenstiel

Lutz Pfannenstiel might be the most adventurous footballer I have ever read about. Born in 1973 in Zwiesel, this 186 cm goalkeeper became the first player to compete on all six continental confederations, a feat that reads more like a travel diary than a CV. Survived jail abroad, clinically died on the pitch, and kept going. Now a sporting director at Aberdeen, he has clearly converted that globe-trotting curiosity into a scout's eye. I love characters who treat a career as exploration rather than a ladder, and Pfannenstiel is exactly that kind of restless, fearless original.

Name (English)

Lutz Pfannenstiel

Name (Japanese)

ルッツ・ファンネンシュティール

Reading

るっつ・ふぁんねんしゅてぃーる

Born

May 12, 1973 (age 53)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Ox

Origin

Zwiesel, Lower Bavaria, Germany

Height

186 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/pfannenstiel/
• Xhttps://x.com/1_LPfannenstiel
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%83%83%E3%83%84%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8D%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB

Tags

• Lower Bavaria
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.