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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Heinrich Schmidtgal
| image = Heinrich-Schmidtgal.jpg
| fullname = Heinrich Schmidtgal
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1985|11|20}}
| birth_place = [[Esik]], [[Kazakh SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| height = {{convert|1.74|m|abbr=on}}
| position = [[Defender (association football)|Defender]]
| currentclub =
| clubnumber =
| youthyears1 =
| youthclubs1 = FC Hövelriege
| youthyears2 = {{0|0000}}–2004
| youthclubs2 = [[SC Verl]]
| years1 = 2003–2007 | clubs1 = [[SC Verl]] | caps1 = 102 | goals1 = 15
| years2 = 2007–2009 | clubs2 = [[VfL Bochum]] | caps2 = 0 | goals2 = 0
| years3 = 2007–2009 | clubs3 = → [[VfL Bochum II]] | caps3 = 61 | goals3 = 8
| years4 = 2009–2011 | clubs4 = [[Rot-Weiß Oberhausen]] | caps4 = 51 | goals4 = 5
| years5 = 2011–2013 | clubs5 = [[SpVgg Greuther Fürth]] | caps5 = 44 | goals5 = 4
| years6 = 2013–2015 | clubs6 = [[Fortuna Düsseldorf]] | caps6 = 18 | goals6 = 0
| years7 = 2015–2016 | clubs7 = [[FSV Frankfurt]] | caps7 = 0 | goals7 = 0
| nationalyears1 = 2010– |nationalteam1 = [[Kazakhstan national football team|Kazakhstan]] | nationalcaps1 = 15 |nationalgoals1 = 1
| pcupdate = 05:11, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
| ntupdate = 12 June 2015
}}
'''Heinrich Schmidtgal''' ([[Kazakh language|Kazakh]]: Генрих Шмидтгаль; born 20 November 1985 in [[Esik]], [[Kazakh SSR]]) is Kazakhstani [[Association football|footballer]] who currently is on a [[free agent]].

==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]].<ref name="schmidtgal">{{cite web |url=http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/kasachstan-kicker-schmidtgal-ein-deutscher-will-die-deutschen-aergern-a-722309.html# |title=Kasachstan-Kicker Schmidtgal: Ein Deutscher will die Deutschen ärgern | first =Jens |last=Witte |date=11 October 2010 |website=Spiegel Online |accessdate=1 August 2014 | language = German}}</ref> He started to play football at FC Hövelriege and move from there to the youth of SC Verl.<ref>{{cite web|title=Deutsch-Kasache Schmidtgal: Im Internet entdeckt|language=German|trans_title=German-Kazakh Schmidtgal: Discovered on the Internet|date=11 October 2010|accessdate=11 October 2010|publisher=westline.de|work=[[Deutsche Presse-Agentur]]|url=http://www.westline.de/fussball/nationalmannschaft/Deutsch-Kasache-Schmidtgal-Im-Internet-entdeckt;art421,286195}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/startseite/366787/artikel_vfl-holt-schmidtgal.html |title=VfL holt Schmidtgal |date=12 June 2007 |website=kicker online |publisher=Olympia Verlag GmbH |accessdate=2 August 2014}}</ref> 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.<ref name="schmidtgal" />

=== Rot-Weiß Oberhausen ===
In summer of 2009, he left [[VfL Bochum]] and signed for [[Rot-Weiß Oberhausen]] the [[2. Bundesliga]].

=== SpVgg Greuther Fürth ===
For the 2011/12 season he joined [[SpVgg Greuther Fürth]] with a two-year contract.

=== Fortuna Düsseldorf ===
In 2013, he moved on to [[Fortuna Düsseldorf]].

=== FSV Frankfurt ===
In June 2015 he signed a two-year contract with [[FSV Frankfurt]].

==International career==
In 2008 [[Bernd Storck]], the newly appointed manager of the [[Kazakhstan national football team|Kazakhstan national team]], researched [[Germany|German]] players born in [[Kazakhstan]].<ref name="FAZ 2010-10-11">{{cite web |url=http://www.faz.net/s/RubFB1F9CD53135470AA600A7D04B278528/Doc~EFE535C3F78A446D3A83CABEC83989335~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html |title=Schmidtgal gegen Deutschland |author=Hartmut Scherzer |date=11 October 2010 |publisher=[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]] |language=German |accessdate=12 October 2010}}</ref> This research revealed [[Sergei Karimov]], [[Juri Judt]], [[Konstantin Engel]] and Heinrich Schmidtgal.<ref name="FAZ 2010-10-11"/> On 3 September 2010, Schmidtgal made his debut for the [[Kazakhstan national football team|Kazakhstan national team]] in a [[UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying Group A|Euro 2012 qualifier]] against [[Turkey national football team|Turkey]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Genrikh Shmidtgal|accessdate=11 October 2010|publisher=[[UEFA]]|url=http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro2012/teams/player=250021607/index.html}}</ref> Schmidtgal was not entitled by [[UEFA]] rules to play for the [[Kazakhstan national football team|Kazakhstan national team]] in second qualifier game against [[Austria national football team|Austria]] in [[Vienna]], as Schmidtgal had not yet completed obtaining [[Kazakhstan]]i citizenship and was only in possession of preliminary [[identity document|id]] (a provisional document not valid outside [[Kazakhstan]]).<ref name="FAZ 2010-10-11"/> This issue was later resolved by Schmidtgal gaining dual citizenship ([[Germany|German]]-[[Kazakhstan]]i).<ref name="FAZ 2010-10-11"/>

During his 12th appearance for the Kazakhstan, Schmidtgal scored his first international goal in a 4-1 loss against [[Germany national football team|Germany]] during the group stage of [[2014 FIFA World Cup qualification]].<ref name="Germany 4-1 Kazakhstan">{{cite web|title=Germany 4-1 Kazakhstan|url=http://espnfc.com/us/en/report/334708/report.html?soccernet=true&cc=5901|publisher=ESPN|accessdate=27 March 2013}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Fussballdaten|schmidtgalheinrich|Heinrich Schmidtgal}}
* [http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/3liga/vereine/3-liga/2015-16/fsv-frankfurt-1295/44814/spieler_heinrich-schmidtgal.html Heinrich Schmidtgal] at kicker.de {{de icon}}
* {{UEFA player|250021607}}

{{Kazakhstani Footballer of the Year}}

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[[Category:German people of Kazakhstani descent]]
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[[Category:SC Verl players]]
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[[Category:SpVgg Greuther Fürth players]]
[[Category:Fortuna Düsseldorf players]]
[[Category:Bundesliga players]]
[[Category:2. Bundesliga players]]
[[Category:Association football defenders]]

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