Manuel Schmiedebach - Hannover 96

[TrapAPony]

22 year old defensive midfielder with 30 appearances for Hannover 96. Schmiedebach grew up bilingual, speaking German and Spanish. His mother is Colombian-Venezuelan and came to Berlin over two decades ago. His father Helmuth has Irish roots while his grandfather is Moroccan.

http://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/manuel-schmiedebach/hannovers-juwel-faehrt-mit-dem-bus-17103306.bild.html

Any FAI staff around to look into this?

[bwagner]

Id love for the fai to sound out decent players like this playing in a country other than England, but it will never happen i fear. I will ask my family in Germany about him and let ye know the report :)

[Spudulika]

Irish roots could be a log way back. Unless his Grandad was a brickie in the 80's, seems unlikely though.

[OwlsFan]

His father Helmuth has Irish roots

What does this mean? Did Jacinta from Ballybock dye Helmut's hair?

[paul_oshea]

More importantly how did he come across this.

Did you type "irish roots" in google<insert_language_here> translator and then use it in google.<insert_postfix_countries_address_here>

[TrapAPony]

Was looking up about Felix Magath and ended up with this lad.

[DannyInvincible]

22 year old defensive midfielder with 30 appearances for Hannover 96. Schmiedebach grew up bilingual, speaking German and Spanish. His mother is Colombian-Venezuelan and came to Berlin over two decades ago. His father Helmuth has Irish roots while his grandfather is Moroccan.

http://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/manuel-schmiedebach/hannovers-juwel-faehrt-mit-dem-bus-17103306.bild.html

Any FAI staff around to look into this?

Send them off an e-mail (info@fai.ie). I e-mailed them about a chap called Thomas Delaney playing for Copenhagen and got a response. Transpired his Irish roots were quite a few generations back and had taken a detour via the US before ending up in Denmark though.

[DannyInvincible]

Amusing translation of a Bild.de piece on him (http://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/manuel-schmiedebach/hannovers-juwel-faehrt-mit-dem-bus-17103306.bild.html):


He is the whiz kid in the whiz: Manuel Schmiedebach (22) is the man in Hanover's midfielder headquarters is located at No. 3 with 96 - Course Champions League.

Schmiedebach? The Berlin (example: Zidane) has won since 2008 in Hannover, under coach Mirko Slomka a regular place. Slomka says: "Manu is driven workflows incredibly strong, stubborn, cheeky, strong in the tackle."

A crazy guy! Schmiedebach catch a bus or train to train, because he has no driver's license. Manu grin: "I've even started, just had to take the examination. But I was too lazy to speak up. "

He dreams of playing for Germany, but he grew up bilingual (Spanish / German): Mama Betty's Columbian came to Berlin 25 years ago. Papa Heinz has Irish ancestors, the grandpa is Moroccan.

Dreams of playing for Germany, apparently.

[AlaskaFox]

I have dreams of playing Madison Square Garden though Danny. :D

[TrapAPony]

"My mother is Colombian. She emigrated with my grandmother as a child in Venezuela. My grandpa is Moroccan with Portuguese ancestry. My dad is German, with Irish ancestry."
http://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/fussball/spricht-ueber-seine-welt-14899460.bild.html

[DannyInvincible]

"Irish ancestry" rather than "an Irish parent" would suggest it may well be a few generations back.

[tricky_colour]

I would have been more optimistic if his name was Manuel O'Schmiedebach

[Crosby87]

How the hell do you find info on his roots.

[tricky_colour]

A couple of years ago both his goalkeeper and captain committed suicide shortly after he started playing!!

[tricky_colour]

How the hell do you find info on his roots.

Look at his pubes in the shower.

[DannyInvincible]

Who was his captain? I'm guessing the keeper was Robert Enke. Or was Enke both captain and keeper?

[tricky_colour]

It seems he was both keeper and captain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Schmiedebach
"In a difficult season due to the suicide of the team's goalkeeper and captain Robert Enke", I misunderstood it, although maybe it is open to interpretation, I guess there would need to be a comma after goalkeeper for it to be two separate people.

[Paddy Garcia]

Irish roots could be a log way back. Unless his Grandad was a brickie in the 80's, seems unlikely though.

It was Joxer.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Completed 90 minutes tonight for Hanover. Anyone find out if he was eligible or is he another Franck Queudrue?

[DannyInvincible]

Google tells me this is his Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/MSchmiedebach33

But Twitter tells me the page doesn't exist.

Edit: Here's another profile: https://twitter.com/SchmiedebachH96

His official one, apparently, although he doesn't appear to put it to much use.

[Crosby87]

He's with Curtis Davies. He heard things about Roy's hygiene and would rather play for Sierra Leone. Germans had a foot hold in Africa for awhile, if you saw "The English Patient" so its not impossible.
Quick trivia, and don't look it up: What country is the English Patient actually from?

[Lionel Ritchie]

A professional footballer who can't arsed with twitter?!?! I like the cut of his jib already.