Andreas Ivanschitz ( him. Andreas Ivanschitz ; October 15, 1983 , Eisenstadt , Austria ) - Austrian footballer , midfielder of the Czech club Victoria (Pilsen) . From 2003 to 2014 he played in the national team of Austria , a member of the 2008 European Championship .
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| Was born | October 15, 1983 (35 years) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Growth | 183 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 84 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | midfielder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club |  Victoria (Pilsen) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| room | 33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club career
Andreas Ivanschits was born in a family of Gradische Croats , compactly living in Burgenland . He began to play football in the local team " Baumgarten ", where he spent a total of 9 years (1989-1998). Then scouts of the capital club " Rapid " noticed his talent and in 1998 Ivanschitz concluded his first professional contract with the champions of Austria. He was only 16 years old when he first entered the field in a Rapid T-shirt - in a cup match against Ranshofen on October 26, 1999. In the Austrian Bundesliga, Ivanschitz made his debut in 2000, in a match with Salzburg . In subsequent years, in 177 matches for the Vienna club, he scored 27 goals, won the championship title in the 2004/05 season . In 2003, Andreas Ivanschitz was voted the best player of the year in Austria.
In January 2006, the footballer moved to Red Bull from Salzburg , but stayed there for only half of the season - in August he went on loan to one of the leading Greek clubs, the Athenian Panathinaikos . At the end of the lease term, on June 20, 2008, Ivanschitz agreed to sign a new permanent agreement with Panathinaikos. In August 2009, he moved to the German Bundesliga club “Mainz 05”, first on loan, and in 2011, the rights to Ivanschitz were redeemed by “Mainz” in full.
June 10, 2013 Ivanschitz moved to the Spanish " Levant " [1] . June 11, 2015 left the "Levante". The parties agreed to terminate the agreement.
On August 4, 2015, Ivanschitz was signed by the MLS Seattle Sounders Club [2] .
In January 2017, he moved to the Czech club Victoria Plzen , signing a contract until the summer of 2018 [3] .
Career in the national team
In the national team of Austria, Ivanschitz made his debut on March 26, 2003 in a match against Greece , he was summoned to the team by the then national team coach Hans Cranckle . In the qualifying match of the European Championship against the Czech Republic national team , held on October 11, 2003, Ivanschitz first put on the captain's armband and thus became at the age of 19 years and 361 days the youngest captain in the history of the Austrian national team.
Achievements
- Team
Rapid (Vienna)
- Champion of Austria : 2004/05
- Austrian Cup finalist : 2004/05
Panathinaikos
- Greece Cup finalist: 2006/07
Seattle sounders
- MLS Champion: 2016
Victoria (Pilsen)
- Czech Champion : 2017/18
- Personal
- Best Player of the Year in Austria : 2003
Notes
- ↑ Andreas Ivanschitz; "El Levante puso mucha pasión por ficharme" Archival copy dated June 13, 2013 on the Wayback Machine
- Oun Sounders FC signs midfielder Andreas Ivanschitz (English) , Seattle Sounders FC (August 4, 2015). The appeal date is December 30, 2016.
- ↑ Viktoria Plzeň hlásí třetí posilu, přichází Andreas Ivanschitz (Czech) . fcviktoria.cz.
Links
- Official site
- Profile on the Victoria website (Czech)
- Statistics on the site rapidarchiv.at
- Player Profile (English) on Transfermarkt
- Profile on the site Soccerway (eng.)
- Profile on worldfootball.net (English)
- Profile on National Football Teams (English)
- Profile on the MLS website
- Profile on the site of the First League (Czech)