Heinrich Schmidtgal
Schmidtgal in 2014
Personal information
Full name Heinrich Schmidtgal
Date of birth (1985-11-20) 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
0000–2004 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

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

Early career

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

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, Schmidtgal left VfL Bochum and signed for Rot-Weiß Oberhausen the 2. Bundesliga.

Greuther Fürth

For the 2011–12 season he joined SpVgg Greuther Fürth with a two-year contract.

Fortuna Düsseldorf

In 2013, Schmidtgal moved on to Fortuna Düsseldorf.

FSV Frankfurt

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

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

Scores and results list Kazakhstan's goal tally first, score column indicates score after Schmidtgal goal.[8]
International goal scored by Heinrich Schmidtgal
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
126 March 2013Frankenstadion, Nuremberg, Germany Germany1–31–42014 World Cup qualifier

References

  1. 1 2 Witte, Jens (11 October 2010). "Kasachstan-Kicker Schmidtgal: Ein Deutscher will die Deutschen ärgern". Spiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ "VfL holt Schmidtgal". kicker online. Olympia Verlag GmbH. 12 June 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "Neuers Bock macht Heini happy". Westfalen-Blatt (in German). 3 August 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Hartmut Scherzer (11 October 2010). "Schmidtgal gegen Deutschland" (in German). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
  6. ↑ "Genrikh Shmidtgal". UEFA. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
  7. ↑ "Germany 4-1 Kazakhstan". ESPN. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
  8. ↑ "Heinrich Schmidtgal". National Football Teams. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
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