Andreas’ career then took an interesting turn, since at the age of 16 he moved to the Austrian third division, where he is already among the adults. All of this was the idea of his brother, who believes that the best way for a defensive midfielder to develop is to play against adults, as the intensity is much higher, the opponents are stronger and the matches are tougher.
“We thought that if he comes in, we’ll gain a few years, by the time he’s twenty, he’ll have four years of experience in his legs!”
Sebastian Böcking said.
We could call it an unusual trajectory, but there is an example of such a thing in Hungarian football, as the number one attacker of our national team, Barnabás Varga, also came from the lower divisions of the Austrian league to the highest level, while working full-time in addition to football – and today he is a starting player for the national team and Ferencváros.
In addition to Andreas, the TSV St. Johann team includes Ukrainian, Colombian and Argentine players, and the goal of the association is to reach the second division. To this end, the club is building a new training center. “I definitely don’t want to go home to Hungary. I want to play in the Austrian Bundesliga, I think it is not out of reach. I will need a lot of work, but within three or four years it is a reality.
I also have the example of Barnabás Varga before me, whose path led to the Hungarian national team from the Austrian fifth division.”
said the young player.
And this may not be so far away, as the player’s talent was also noticed by representatives of the Hungarian national football team, and he spent the last few days in Telki, where despite his 17-year-old age, he received an invitation to the U18 national team.
