Michél Mazingu-Dinzey

Michél Mazingu-Dinzey
African man in a diagonally striped brown-and-white jersey with a sponsor logo across the chest. His hair is cornrowed, and his arms are crossed above his head.
Dinzey in the colours of FC St. Pauli.
Personal information
Full nameMichél Sinda Mazingu-Dinzey
Date of birth15 October 1975
Place of birthBerlin, Germany
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing positionMidfielder
Youth career
1979–1986Spvgg. Schöneberg
1986–19901. FC Schöneberg
1990–1991FV Wannsee
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
1991–1992FV Wannsee34(7)
1992–1994Lichterfelder FC68(17)
1994–1995VfB Stuttgart14(0)
1995–1996FC St. Pauli31(5)
1996–1998Hertha BSC60(6)
1998–2000TSV 1860 München15(1)
2000–2002Hannover 9613(2)
2001→ Vålerenga (loan)10(1)
2002–2004Eintracht Braunschweig66(14)
2004–2007FC St. Pauli88(24)
2007–2008Holstein Kiel10(1)
2011–2012TSV Apensen2(0)
Total411(78)
National team
1996–2004Congo-Kinshasa33(3)
Teams managed
2009St. Eloi Lupopo (asst. coach)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Michél Mazingu-Sinda-Dinzey (born 15 October 1972 in Berlin) is a retired German-Congolese football player. He has played for several clubs in Germany, including FC St. Pauli, Hertha BSC, TSV 1860 München, Hannover 96 and Eintracht Braunschweig.

Career

Playing career

Dinzey began playing football in his childhood, participating in youth teams in the Berlin borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. In 1988 he joined a Wannsee Junior-A team that played in Steglitz-Zehlendorf, an adjacent Berlin borough. At 17, he began upper-league play with the first-tier crew of the Wannsee FC. The following year he switched to Lichterfelder FC, playing two years for them.

In 1994, Dinzey began his professional career with the Fußball-Bundesliga, playing for VfB Stuttgart. His debut game in the Bundesliga's 1994–95 season, the first of 14 he played that year, was on 2 August — an away match against TSV 1860 München. In the 1995–96 season, with the prospect of becoming a regular starter, he moved to the FC St. Pauli in Hamburg.[1] After playing in 31 games and having scored five goals for Hamburg, Dinzey was drafted to play for Zaire's national team. After the season he returned to the Bundesliga, signing for Hertha BSC, where for two years he was a regular starter and significantly contributed to the team's success. In 1998 he accepted a 1.3-million-Deutschmark contract to play for the TSV 1860 München team as Horst Heldt's substitute.[2]

During two years he played for Munich only 15 times, scoring a single goal. In 2000, the Munich team qualified for the UEFA Champions League, but owing to differences with then-coach Werner Lorant he had little opportunity to participate in the tournament.

Subsequently he moved to play for Hannover 96 in the second Bundesliga; he earned a regular place and played 13 completed games, scoring two goals. In 2001 he was on a four-month loan to Norwegian First Division team Valerenga, where he played ten of 13 games, scoring one goal.

In 2002, he returned to Germany, playing for Eintracht Braunschweig, but the team finished 15th and he could not prevent the team's relegation from the second Bundesliga to the then third-tier Regionalliga Nord. Despite the fall in rank, he remained in Braunschweig for the 2003–04 season, statistically his most successful; he scored 13 goals in his last season and helped his team achieve the Lower Saxony Cup.

In 2004 he returned to the FC St. Pauli in the Regionalliga Nord, playing 88 times and scoring 24 goals during his three years in Hamburg; the team twice won the Hamburger Pokal. In 2006 the team reached the semi-finals of the DFB-Pokal but lost to eventual winners FC Bayern Munich. In 2007, St. Pauli was promoted to the Bundesliga's second division, where he was traded to play seven months for the Oberliga Nord's Holstein Kiel team. He played there for ten games and scored a goal before finally ending his playing career.

During his career, Mazingu-Dinzey played professionally in 90 Bundesliga games, 77 Regionalliga games and 220 games overall. He also played 33 international caps for Congo-Kinshasa. He is married with two children.

International career

Dinzey made his debut for the Zaire national football team on 19 January 1996 at the African Cup in Durban, South Africa, losing 2–0 to Gabon but winning 2–0 in Johannesburg against Liberia before losing 1–0 to Ghana in the quarter-finals at Port Elizabeth.

He was subsequently part of the Congolese 2000 African Cup squad hosted jointly by Nigeria and Ghana. That team played both Algeria and Gabon to scoreless ties but lost to South Africa 1–0; only South Africa and Algeria had sufficient points to advance to the quarter-finals.

His last year for the Congolese national team was at the 2004 African Cup in Tunisia, when the DR Congo squad lost to Guinea 2–1, to Tunisia 3–0 and to Rwanda 1–0. Having finished bottom of their group in the first round of competition, the team failed to secure qualification for the quarter-finals.[3]

Coaching career

After retiring as a player Dinzey began in October 2008 with the DFB as a base coach in Hamburg (Steilshoop). From 1 March to 31 December 2009 he was an assistant coach in the DR Congo in the first division team FC Saint Eloi Lupopo in the city of Lubumbashi.[4] He was champion in 2009 and qualified for the 2010 CAF Champions League . In addition, He works as a consultant for Global United FC .[5] After his return from Lubumbashi, he worked occasionally as a consultant and as a talent scout for the Turkish club Diyarbakirspor.[6] In October 2011, Dinzey took over as coach at the district division club TSV Apensen (Stade).[7] As of October 2013 he was coach of the sixth division Kosova Hamburg 1977 eV.[8] After the league in May 2014. division Hansa managed the club Kosova, he came to the end of the 2013/2014 season of his top job back.[9] Since December 2014 he worked for the TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in scouting the area.[10] It also supports non-profit organization U-Dream Football.[11]

American football

In 2011 he played as a placekicker for Hamburg based American football team St. Pauli Buccaneers, who compete in the third tier Regionalliga.[12]

TV career

In July 2013 Dinzey took over the TV pundits role in Sport1 and acted until 1 January 2015,[13] for live games as an online commentator on Twitter.[14] He is also a TV expert in the transmissions of the Regional Games of the transmitter sport1.[15]

Personal life

Dinzey committed to various social projects such as Nestwerk e. V. of the founder Reinhold Beckmann or in the fight against drugs and alcohol in children and adolescents in the Department of Psychiatry at the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg.[16] He is also a member of Global United FC, the football world will contest against global warming and is committed to regularly for the annual charity campaign Hamburger kicking with heart.[17]

Michél Sinda-Mazingu-Dinzey is married and has two children.

References

  1. ↑ Klemm, Hans-Günter. "Freudenfest im Freudenhaus". kicker sports magazine Bundesliga 1995/96 special issue: 60.
  2. ↑ Messerer, Martin. "Aufschwung nach dem Abschwung" [Upswing after downswing]. kicker Bundesliga 1998/99 special issue: 64.
  3. ↑ Michél Mazingu-Dinzey at National-Football-Teams.com
  4. ↑ Michel Mazingu-Dinzey im Interview
  5. ↑ Unsere Markenstory - Unsere Mission - Global Striker
  6. ↑ Global United FC - MICHEL DINZEY Botschafter
  7. ↑ mopo.de Dinzey: Paradiesvogel und Sozialarbeiter
  8. ↑ Michel Dinzey ist neuer Trainer beim Klub Kosova vom 11. Oktober 2013
  9. ↑ Der Klassenerhalt mit #KlubKosova ist geschafft und zum Saisonende trete ich als Trainer des Landesligisten zurück.
  10. ↑ Indien baut auf Fußball "made in Hoffenheim": TSG 1899 Hoffenheim und unseren 3 Scouts Michél Mazingu-Dinzey, Guido Kandziora und Julian Zimmermann.
  11. ↑ U Dream Football
  12. ↑ football-aktuell.de "Bucs wachsen – prominenter Neuzugang verpflichtet" (in German). Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  13. ↑ Das war es dann auch für mich gewesen. Danke @LauraWontorra @SPORT1 @SPORT1_Hattrick neue Aufgabe als Scout ruft 2015. #2Liga
  14. ↑ Sport1 Mazingu-Dinzey twittert für SPORT1 vom 19. Juli 2013
  15. ↑ sportmikrofon.de Mazingu-Dinzey übernimmt Kosova
  16. ↑ René Martens: „Sauftouren gibt es auch in der Bundesliga“, www.direkter-freistoss.de, 7. Januar 2010 (10. Juni 2010).
  17. ↑ http://www.hamburg.de/sportevents/2898930/kicken-mit-herz.html