Heinrich Schmidtgal
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 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, Genrih Şmidtgal; born 20 November 1985) is a Kazakhstani former professional footballer who played as a left-back.
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]
