Heinrich Schmidtgal
 Schmidtgal in 2014 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Heinrich Schmidtgal | ||
| Date of birth | 20 November 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | Esik, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union | ||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Left-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| FC Hövelriege | |||
| –2004 | SC Verl | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2003–2007 | SC Verl | 102 | (15) |
| 2007–2009 | VfL Bochum | 0 | (0) |
| 2007–2009 | → VfL Bochum II | 61 | (8) |
| 2009–2011 | Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | 51 | (5) |
| 2011–2013 | Greuther Fürth | 44 | (4) |
| 2013–2015 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 18 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | FSV Frankfurt | 0 | (0) |
| Total | 276 | (32) | |
| International career | |||
| 2010–2015 | Kazakhstan | 14 | (1) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Heinrich Schmidtgal (Kazakh: Генрих Шмидтгаль; born 20 November 1985) is a Kazakhstani former professional footballer who played as a left-back.
Early life
[edit]Born in Esik, Kazakh SSR, Schmidtgal emigrated with his parents at the age of two from the former Soviet Union and settled in Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock in East Westphalia in North Rhine-Westphalia.[1]
Club career
[edit]Early career
[edit]Schmidtgal started to play football at FC Hövelriege and move from there to the youth of SC Verl.[2] On 27 August 2003, the second matchday of the Oberliga Westfalen, he made his debut for the first team in the 3–2 defeat against FC Gütersloh. In this season, where he was still a youth player, he came to a total of ten appearances. In the next season, he achieved a place in the starting eleven and came to 29 appearances. He showed above average performance and thus aroused the interest from clubs in higher leagues, among those VfL Bochum who signed him.[3] Schmidtgal had previously contributed to Verl's promotion to the Regionalliga, the then third division.
VfL Bochum
[edit]In Bochum, he played for the second team and did only train with the first team, which was playing in the Bundesliga.[1]
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
[edit]In summer of 2009, Schmidtgal left VfL Bochum and signed for Rot-Weiß Oberhausen the 2. Bundesliga.
Greuther Fürth
[edit]For the 2011–12 season he joined SpVgg Greuther Fürth with a two-year contract.
Fortuna Düsseldorf
[edit]In 2013, Schmidtgal moved on to Fortuna Düsseldorf.
FSV Frankfurt
[edit]In June 2015 he signed a two-year contract with FSV Frankfurt.
Schmidtgal retired from playing in 2016 due to cartilage damage.[4]
International career
[edit]In 2008 Bernd Storck, the newly appointed manager of the Kazakhstan national team, researched German players born in Kazakhstan.[5] This research revealed Sergei Karimov, Juri Judt, Konstantin Engel and Heinrich Schmidtgal.[5] On 3 September 2010, Schmidtgal made his debut for the Kazakhstan national team in a Euro 2012 qualifier against Turkey.[6] Schmidtgal was not entitled by UEFA rules to play for the Kazakhstan national team in second qualifier game against Austria in Vienna, as Schmidtgal had not yet completed obtaining Kazakhstani citizenship and was only in possession of preliminary id (a provisional document not valid outside Kazakhstan).[5] This issue was later resolved by Schmidtgal gaining dual citizenship (German-Kazakhstani).[5]
During his 12th appearance for the Kazakhstan, Schmidtgal scored his first international goal in a 4–1 loss against Germany during the group stage of 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.[7] That match took place in Nuremberg, which has become contiguous with Fürth, where he played his club football at the time.
International goal
[edit]- Scores and results list Kazakhstan's goal tally first, score column indicates score after Schmidtgal goal.[8]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 March 2013 | Frankenstadion, Nuremberg, Germany |  Germany |
1–3 | 1–4 | 2014 World Cup qualifier |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Witte, Jens (11 October 2010). "Kasachstan-Kicker Schmidtgal: Ein Deutscher will die Deutschen ärgern". Spiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 1 August 2014.
- ^ "Deutsch-Kasache Schmidtgal: Im Internet entdeckt" [German-Kazakh Schmidtgal: Discovered on the Internet]. Deutsche Presse-Agentur (in German). westline.de. 11 October 2010. Archived from the original on 23 April 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
- ^ "VfL holt Schmidtgal". kicker online. Olympia Verlag GmbH. 12 June 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
- ^ "Neuers Bock macht Heini happy". Westfalen-Blatt (in German). 3 August 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ a b c d Hartmut Scherzer (11 October 2010). "Schmidtgal gegen Deutschland" (in German). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- ^ "Genrikh Shmidtgal". UEFA. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
- ^ "Germany 4-1 Kazakhstan". ESPN. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
- ^ "Heinrich Schmidtgal". National Football Teams. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
External links
[edit]- Heinrich Schmidtgal at fussballdaten.de (in German)
- Heinrich Schmidtgal at kicker.de (in German)
- Heinrich Schmidtgal – UEFA competition record (archive)
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Almaty Region
- Kazakhstani men's footballers
- Kazakhstan men's international footballers
- Kazakhstani Christians
- Kazakhstani people of German descent
- Kazakhstani emigrants to Germany
- Volga German people
- German men's footballers
- VfL Bochum players
- VfL Bochum II players
- SC Verl players
- Rot-Weiß Oberhausen players
- SpVgg Greuther Fürth players
- Fortuna Düsseldorf players
- Bundesliga players
- 2. Bundesliga players
- Men's association football defenders
- 21st-century German sportsmen