He is the face of the season so far and generally the face of FC St. Pauli: It was already clear when he signed that Jackson Irvine would bring a lot to become a favorite at Millerntor sooner or later. It took the Australian just over a year to become indispensable in so many ways. As a representative of the neighborhood club, but above all as a mainstay and co-captain of the team.
On Thursday he did what he obviously chose to be his new passion. Irvine was the only player on his team to receive a yellow card in the Socceroos’ friendly once morest New Zealand. Although the 29-year-old has hardly changed his style of play and has not yet committed a single bad foul in everyday life in the second division, he is also at the top of the list of punishments for the German referees. Irvine has already received a yellow card five times, resulting in a suspension next Saturday in the home game once morest Heidenheim.
Jackson Irvine leading in five League 2 statistics
In this category, Irvine leads the entire 2nd division – and it is by no means the only one. If you open the player statistics page at “bundesliga.de”, a man with a mustache in a brown jersey smiles at you in five out of 19 possible cases. Irvine not only tops 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 the number of intense ones runs.
The 1.89 meter drop has become formative for the team coached by Timo Schultz. He already has three goals on the credit side, has been on the pitch in all ten competitive games from kick-off to final whistle and is indestructible, although he jets halfway around the planet with great regularity when the national team calls. Only one corona infection is listed in his Hamburg medical file.
St. Pauli slows media interest in Jackson Irvine
The forced break once morest Heidenheim will hurt Schultz and rankle Irvine, but off the field a bit of distance would be good. A football professional who knows music, plays the guitar, lives in the middle of the neighborhood and comes to training and games by bus, train or on foot – St. Pauli is choking on requests for media events and has now put a stop to the whole thing , to give the midfield engine space and time to focus on the sporting aspect.
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And that’s more important than ever in the current tabular and atmospheric situation. Even if Jackson Irvine will miss FC St. Pauli’s next game.