Heinrich Schmidtgal
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| 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) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Fortuna Düsseldorf | ||
| Number | 8 | ||
| 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 | SpVgg Greuther Fürth | 44 | (4) |
| 2013– | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 13 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2010– | Kazakhstan | 12 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 8 August 2014. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Heinrich Schmidtgal (Cyrillic: Генрих Шмидтгаль, romanized: Genrikh Shmidtgal; born 20 November 1985 in Esik, Kazakh SSR) is a Kazakh-German footballer who currently plays for Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 2. Bundesliga.
Biography
Early years
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] He 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 2–3 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 for promotion to the Regionalliga, the then third division, the Verl side.
VfL Bochum
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
In summer of 2009, he left VfL Bochum and signed for Rot-Weiß Oberhausen the 2. Bundesliga.
International career
In 2008 Bernd Storck, the newly appointed manager of the Kazakhstan national team, researched German players born in Kazakhstan.[4] This research revealed Sergei Karimov, Juri Judt, Konstantin Engel and Heinrich Schmidtgal.[4] On 3 September 2010, Schmidtgal made his debut for the Kazakhstan national team in a Euro 2012 qualifier against Turkey.[5] 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).[4] This issue was later resolved by Schmidtgal gaining dual citizenship (German-Kazakhstani).[4]
During his 12th appearance for the Kazakhstan, Schmidtgal scored his first international goal in a 4-1 loss against his native land Germany during the group stage of 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.[6]
International goals
- Scores and results table lists Kazakhstan's goal tally first.
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 26 March 2013 | Stadion Nürnberg, Nürnberg |  Germany | 1–3 | 1–4 | 2014 World Cup qualifier |
Statistics
- As of 11 November 2012
| Club performance | League | Cup | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Germany | League | DFB-Pokal | Total | |||||
| 2003–04 | SC Verl | Oberliga Westfalen | 10 | 1 | — | 10 | 1 | |
| 2004–05 | 29 | 4 | — | 29 | 4 | |||
| 2005–06 | 29 | 4 | — | 29 | 4 | |||
| 2006–07 | 34 | 6 | — | 34 | 6 | |||
| 2007–08 | VfL Bochum II | 30 | 4 | — | 30 | 4 | ||
| 2008–09 | Regionalliga West | 31 | 4 | — | 31 | 4 | ||
| 2009–10 | Rot-Weiß Oberhausen | 2. Bundesliga | 33 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 5 |
| 2010–11 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | ||
| 2011–12 | SpVgg Greuther Fürth | 33 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 36 | 4 | |
| 2012–13 | Bundesliga | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | |
| Total | Germany | 258 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 263 | 32 | |
| Career total | 258 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 263 | 32 | ||
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Kasachstan-Kicker Schmidtgal: Ein Deutscher will die Deutschen ärgern". Spiegel Online (in German). 11 October 2010. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
|first1=missing|last1=in Authors list (help) - ↑ "Deutsch-Kasache Schmidtgal: Im Internet entdeckt" [German-Kazakh Schmidtgal: Discovered on the Internet]. Deutsche Presse-Agentur (in German). westline.de. 11 October 2010. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
- ↑ "VfL holt Schmidtgal". kicker online. Olympia Verlag GmbH. 12 June 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 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.
External links
- Heinrich Schmidtgal at fussballdaten.de (German)
- Heinrich Schmidtgal at kicker.de (German)
- Heinrich Schmidtgal – UEFA competition record
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