İhsan Poyraz

İhsan Poyraz — Biography

İhsan Poyraz is a retired goalkeeper, born in Vienna, who holds both Austrian and Turkish citizenship. He shaped his career at Austrian clubs, and in Turkey he kept goal for Manisaspor before retiring from football.

Poyraz started football in 1999 in the SV Wienerberg youth system, then developed at SC Team Wiener Linien and Austria Wien. In his youth he played for Austria's under-19 national team. In 2007 he signed professionally with LASK Amateure, made 35 appearances for the amateur side and was promoted to LASK's first team that year, but never played a match there. In 2009 he returned to SV Wienerberg and made 18 appearances in three seasons.

In 2012 he moved to Manisaspor, who had dropped into the 1. Lig that season. He made his first appearance for the club in the cup against Kayseri Şekerspor. With Volkan Babacan the team's undisputed first choice, Poyraz had little playing time and appeared in one league and three cup matches for Manisaspor.