So far he is the face of the season and in general the face of FC St. Pauli: it was already clear when he signed that Jackson Irvine would go a long way to becoming Millerntor’s favorite sooner or later. It took the Australian a little over a year to become indispensable in many ways. As a representative of the neighborhood club, but above all as a pillar and co-captain of the team.
On Thursday he did what he obviously chose as his new passion. Irvine was the only player on his team to receive a yellow card in the Socceroos friendly against New Zealand. Although the 29-year-old has changed his style of play little and has not yet committed a bad foul in his everyday life in the second division, he is also at the top of the free-kick list of German referees. Irvine has already received a yellow card five times, resulting in a disqualification next Saturday in their home game against Heidenheim.
Jackson Irvine leads in five League 2 stats
In this category, Irvine leads the entire 2nd division – and by no means the only one. If you open the player stats page on “bundesliga.de”, a man with a mustache in a brown shirt will smile at you in five of the 19 possible cases. Irvine not only excels yellow cards, total cards, own goals (although there are professionals from other clubs with identical numbers in all three rankings), but also running distance and number of intense races.
The height difference of 1.89 meters has become formative for the team coached by Timo Schultz. He already has three goals to his credit, has played in all ten official matches from kickoff to final whistle and is indestructible, even though he turns to the other side of the planet with great regularity when the national team calls. Only a corona infection is listed in his Hamburg medical record.
St. Pauli slows media interest in Jackson Irvine
The mandatory break against Heidenheim will hurt Schultz and annoy Irvine, but off the pitch a little distance would do well. A football pro who knows music, plays guitar, lives in the middle of the neighborhood and comes to practice and matches by bus, train or on foot – St. Pauli is choked with requests for media events and has now put an end to it all, to give the midfield engine space and time to focus on the sporty aspect.
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And this is more important than ever in the current tabular and atmospheric situation. Although Jackson Irvine will miss the next FC St. Pauli game.
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