Daniel Ellensohn (born 9 August 1985 in

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) is an

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striker from New Zealand who has played in New Zealand, Australia and Austria. He has represented NZ in beach soccer & Austria in touch Rugby. He has also been known to DJ, with popular London clubs Gigalum and Ministry of Sound hosting him.

Club career

His previous teams include

Team Wellington Team Wellington Football Club was an association football club based in the suburb of Miramar in Wellington, New Zealand. They competed in the ISPS Handa Premiership. Team Wellington had traditionally been one of the most successful football c ...

and

Waitakere United Waitakere United was a football club based in Waitakere City, New Zealand. They were one of the franchises in the ISPS Handa Premiership. They played their home games at Fred Taylor Park in Kumeū and The Trusts Arena. History Waitakere Uni ...

. Ellensohn holds dual citizenship with Austria and New Zealand. The South African-born striker played from 2004 to 2008 in the New Zealand Football Championship, initially for three seasons at Waitakere United, with whom he twice reached the 2005 and 2007 Grand Final, but lost both went to Auckland City. In 2007, he moved to Wellington team again in 2008 and reached the Grand Final, this time against his former club Waitakere. In spite of his hits for the 1:0-lead his team lost the game even with 2:3. Ellensohn then became the first ever New Zealander to sign in Austria as he signed for FC Lustenau in the Erste Liga, where his contract was no longer extended due to injury.
For the 2008/09 season Ellensohn returned to Waitakere and participated with the team at the FIFA Club World Cup 2008 (however, came at the 1:2 defeat against Adelaide United). Ellensohn has also spent a season with Sydney's Macarthur Rams in the NSW State League. In 2011-12 he signed with Kiwi FC, in London, UK.

International career

Ellensohn has made a solitary appearance for the New Zealand All Whites as a substitute in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier against

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on 17 November 2007. He was included in the New Zealand squad for the football tournament at the

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, where they competed against hosts China, Brazil and Belgium. Ellensohn scored the only goal in New Zealand U-23 historic 1–0 win over Chile, in Wellington, New Zealand on 4 July 2008, which tied the series 1-1. http://www.kiwifc.com/#/squad/4554518247 He has represented New Zealand's national

beach soccer Beach soccer, also known as beach football, sand football or sand soccer, is a variant of association football played on a beach or some form of sand between two teams of five players each. Association football has long been played informally on ...

team, where he was named captain during the 2007 OFC Beach World Cup Qualifiers. New Zealand’s first and only Beach Soccer team. Ellensohn also represented Austria in touch rugby at the 2013 Mainland Cup in Vienna, when he was voted the MVP in Austrias mixed squad for the tournament
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Personal

His brother David Ellensohn has represented New Zealand at Secondary School level as a goalkeeper and the South African born New Zealander holds an

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n passport.Doppelpass ins rot-weiß-rote Abseits

References

External links

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Daniel Ellensohn player profile at the official Team Wellington website

Daniel Ellensohn player profile at the official Kiwi FC website

Daniel Ellensohn player Stats at the official Kiwi FC website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ellensohn, Daniel 1985 births Living people Soccer players from Cape Town New Zealand men's association footballers New Zealand men's international footballers Olympic association footballers for New Zealand Men's association football forwards Waitakere United players Team Wellington FC players FC Lustenau 07 players Expatriate men's footballers in Austria New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Austria New Zealand people of Austrian descent South African emigrants to New Zealand 2008 OFC Nations Cup players OFC Nations Cup–winning players Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics New Zealand Football Championship players 21st-century New Zealand sportsmen