The man not only felt his second home in a machine, he is one himself: St. Pauli’s frequent flyer Jackson Irvine puts away the constant travel strains that he takes on his international trips to the games with Australia’s selection, as if the term were Jet lag non-existent. And he has become irreplaceable for Timo Schultz.
It was a total of three games on three different continents in just ten days. In addition to the numerous hours on the plane, the 28-year-old also had two 90-minute runs from the games in Melbourne once morest Vietnam (4-1) and in Oman (2-2) when he played once morest on Saturday evening on a low slope at the Millerntor SC Paderborn was allowed to run – and with 12.6 kilometers run, delivered the best value of all players.
The fact that frequent flyer Irvine is set for St. Pauli shows that no one else has his qualities
The fact that coach Schultz set him up on the one hand and let him play through in an intensive encounter on the other hand speaks for the appreciation of Irvine. On the other hand, this also made it clear that nobody in the squad – not even Finn Ole Becker, who is moving to Hoffenheim – can match the qualities that the tall Schlaks has to offer.
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Irvine had missed the first four games of the season injured, in the following 17 games he always played, 13 times from the start. So far he has had one goal and two assists.
