Andrew Orsatti

Andrew Orsatti (born in Sydney, Australia, 23 April 1975) is the Communications Director and Spokesman for football's international players' union FIFPro. Before his present role, Orsatti worked as a sports journalist and football commentator for ESPN in the United States. A former professional footballer himself, Orsatti spent his formative years as an investigative football journalist and broadcaster with the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) in Australia. He previously sat on the Australian Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) Awards Committee alongside a host of former Australian internationals and media professionals.

Growing up in Sydney, Australia, Orsatti's football career started to show promise while playing for the youth teams of former National Soccer League club APIA Leichhardt. He attracted interest from various Italian clubs including A.S. Roma, Torino, Pescara, Ancona and Lucchese during the 1992/93 season.

After two years in Italy, Orsatti suffered a serious knee injury while playing for Italian lower division club Penne. During the European summer of 1994, he was offered a contract by then Serie A club Pescara. However, after multiple knee operations he never returned to full-time professional football.

In 2002, he appeared in the 'If Only' series on SBS, in which Australia's 1974 World Cup defender, Manfred Schäfer, described Orsatti as a "big time" player whom he had expected to excel in one of the world's top competitions.

Orsatti completed an Associate Diploma in Journalism at Macleay College in Sydney, in 1995.

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