Andreas Hinkel
 Hinkel playing for Celtic |
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Andreas Hinkel | ||
| Date of birth | 26 March 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | Backnang, West Germany | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Right back | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Freiburg | ||
| Number | 20 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1987–1992 | TSV Leutenbach | ||
| 1992–2000 | VfB Stuttgart | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2000–2006 | Stuttgart | 156 | (1) |
| 2006–2008 | Sevilla | 15 | (0) |
| 2008–2011 | Celtic | 79 | (1) |
| 2011– | Freiburg | 5 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2002–2003 | Germany U21 | 8 | (0) |
| 2003– | Germany | 21 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 January 2012. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Andreas Hinkel (born 26 March 1982 in Backnang, Baden-Württemberg) is a German footballer who currently plays for German Bundesliga club SC Freiburg. He is a right back and has 21 caps for Germany.
He started his career with Bundesliga side VfB Stuttgart in 2000, before moving to La Liga club Sevilla in 2006. In January 2008 he signed for Scottish Premier League club Celtic for £1.9 million. He left Celtic and joined Bundesliga side Freiburg after his contract expired in summer 2011. He had spent the entire 2010-11 season out due to a cruciate ligament injury.
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[edit] Club career
[edit] Stuttgart
After finishing second with Stuttgart in the 2002–03 season, and already established as first-choice, Hinkel took part in Champions League for the first time in his career. In March 2004, however, he suffered a knee ligament injury.
[edit] Sevilla
On 23 June 2006, Hinkel signed a four-year contract with Sevilla, where he won the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Super Cup.[1] The transfer fee was estimated to be around €4 million. However, he found himself unable to dislodge Sevilla's regular right-back Daniel Alves.[2]
[edit] Celtic
On 4 January 2008, Hinkel was confirmed as a Celtic player, for a fee of £1.9 million.[2] Hinkel played his first Celtic game in a 3–0 Scottish Cup win over Stirling Albion eight days later, and scored his first goal for Celtic a month later, in a 3–0 win over Hearts at Celtic Park.[3] Celtic won the SPL title on a dramatic last day of the season and earned Hinkel his first league title medal.
The following season, Hinkel won a Scottish League Cup winners medal after a 2–0 win over Rangers in the final.[4]
Hinkel played a vital part in Celtic's Champions League third qualifying round second-leg victory over Russian outfit Dinamo Moscow on 5 August 2009. The match ended 2–0 to the Hoops with Hinkel assisting Scott McDonald for the opener then hitting a long hopeful punt up the pitch which Georgios Samaras latched onto before netting a last-minute winner.[5] The German also cleared two goal-bound Dinamo strikes off the line. Hinkel was seen as an inherent and important part of the team and his performances were not put into question,[6] as shown by his 29 SPL matches.[7]
For the first match of the 2010–11 season on 14 August, Hinkel was dropped in favour of new signing Cha Du-Ri. The following week, he suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury and was ruled out for nine months.[8] He resumed training the following January.[9] On 1 July 2011, Hinkel left Celtic after his contract expired.
[edit] SC Freiburg
On 6 October 2011, SC Freiburg announced that the club had signed Hinkel.
[edit] International career
Hinkel has represented Germany on 21 occasions at senior level, making his debut in 2003 against Serbia and Montenegro.[10] He was part of the German squad during Euro 2004 (having recovered from aforementioned knee injury), but missed the 2006 World Cup.[11] Hinkel's international involvement was kept to a minimum when at Sevilla due to lack of first team football. Hinkel has made very few appearances since then as Philipp Lahm is first-choice right back ahead of him.[12] Hinkel was also not called up for Euro 2008[12] or the 2010 World Cup.[11]
[edit] Honours
- Sevilla
- Copa del Rey: 1
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- 2007
- UEFA Cup: 1
- Celtic
[edit] References
- ^ "Hinkel: „Ich könnte nie für Betis oder die Rangers spielen"" (in German). transfermarkt.de. 5 July 2010. http://www.transfermarkt.de/de/hinkel-ich-koennte-nie-fuer-betis-oder-die-rangers-spielen/news/anzeigen_42248.html. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- ^ a b "Celtic sign Hinkel from Sevilla". BBC Sport. 4 January 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/7145995.stm. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- ^ "Celtic 3–0 Hearts". BBC Sport. 16 February 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/7246404.stm. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
- ^ "Celtic 2–0 Rangers". BBC Sport. 15 March 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/scot_cups/7941624.stm. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
- ^ Spiers, Graham (6 August 2009). "Last-gasp Georgios Samaras goal sends Celtic through in Champions League". Times Online. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/scotland/article6740625.ece. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- ^ Devlin, Andy (21 July 2010). "Hinkel: Staying another year at Celtic could be a bad Korea move". The Scottish Sun. http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/3062375/Hinkel-fears-for-his-Celtic-future.html. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- ^ "Andreas Hinkel - Celtic Football Club" (in German). Andreas Hinkel's official website. http://andreas-hinkel.de/deutsch/statistics/statistics.html. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- ^ "Andreas Hinkel injury rocks Celtic as German defender is sidelined for nine months". Mail Online. 19 August 2010. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1304468/Andreas-Hinkel-sidelined-months-knee-injury.html. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- ^ "Andreas Hinkel's back in town". Celtic FC. 19 January 2011. http://www.celticfc.net/newsstory.php?item=567. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
- ^ "Andreas Hinkel". Deutscher Fußball-Bund. http://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=305007. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- ^ a b Andreas Hinkel – FIFA competition record
- ^ a b "Players Info Hinkel". Deutscher Fußball-Bund. http://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=500397&action=showPlayer&full=1&liga=Nationalmannschaft&vorname=&nachname=Hinkel&cHash=099e9273266e8829e9939a68052afb1d. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
[edit] External links
- Andreas Hinkel at fussballdaten.de (German)
- Andreas Hinkel at Celtic FC
- Andreas Hinkel career stats at Soccerbase
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- 1982 births
- Living people
- Association football fullbacks
- German footballers
- German expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Spain
- Expatriate footballers in Scotland
- Germany international footballers
- Germany under-21 international footballers
- Germany B international footballers
- VfB Stuttgart players
- VfB Stuttgart II players
- Sevilla FC footballers
- Celtic F.C. players
- SC Freiburg players
- Fußball-Bundesliga players
- La Liga footballers
- Scottish Premier League players
- UEFA Euro 2004 players
- 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup players
