Anthony Schmid
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 18 January 1999 | ||
| Place of birth | Strasbourg, France | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Austria Lustenau | ||
| Number | 18 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Strasbourg | |||
| Offenburger | |||
| 2013–2018 | Freiburg | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2018–2020 | Freiburg II | 19 | (2) |
| 2020–2022 | Floridsdorfer | 33 | (15) |
| 2022– | Austria Lustenau | 7 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2016 | Austria U18 | 4 | (0) |
| 2018 | Austria U19 | 4 | (2) |
| 2018 | Austria U21 | 2 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 02:01, 9 September 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 02:01, 9 September 2022 (UTC) | |||
Anthony Schmid (born 18 January 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Austria Lustenau. Born in France, he is a youth international for Austria.
Career
Schmid is a youth product of the academy of the French club Strasbourg. He then moved to Germany with the youth academy of Offenburger, before moving to Freiburg's youth side in 2013. He began his senior career with the Freiburg reserves in 2018. On 25 August 2020, he moved to the Austrian club Floridsdorfer.[1] On 20 May 2021, he extended his contract with the club for one more year after 3 goals in 25 games in his debut season in the 2. Liga.[2] He broke out his second season with Floridsdorfer with 11 goals in 28 appearances, and came in second in the 2. Liga narrowly avoiding promotion. He transferred to their newly promoted rivals Austria Lustenau on 27 May 2022 for their campaign in the 2022-23 Austrian Football Bundesliga, signing a 3-year contract.[3]
International career
Born in France, Schmid elected to represent Austria internationally in 2016. He has played up to the Austria U21s.[4]
Personal life
Schmid was born in Strasbourg, France to an Austrian father[5] and a French mother from Alsace.[6] His maternal grandfather is Algerian.[7] He is the brother of the French professional footballer Jonathan Schmid.[8]
References
- ^ "Bienvenue, Anthony Schmid!". 25 August 2020.
- ^ "Anthony Schmid verlängert". 20 May 2021.
- ^ "Anthony Schmid wechselt zum SC Austria Lustenau". www.austria-lustenau.at.
- ^ "Anthony Schmid vom SC Freiburg soll für Österreich spielen". SPORT1.
- ^ "Ein Ex-Offenburger sorgt für Furore". Nachrichten der Ortenau - Offenburger Tageblatt.
- ^ "Austro-Franzose Schmid: "Eher kein Arnautovic-Double"". Kronen Zeitung. 10 August 2012.
- ^ "Algérie : Jonathan Schmid (Fribourg) en contact avec Belmadi !". Afrik-Foot. 5 June 2020.
- ^ "Footballeur transfrontalier". www.20minutes.fr.
External links
- Anthony Schmid at Soccerway
- OEFB Profile
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Strasbourg
- Austrian footballers
- Austria youth international footballers
- French footballers
- Austrian people of French descent
- Austrian people of Algerian descent
- French people of Austrian descent
- French sportspeople of Algerian descent
- SC Freiburg II players
- Floridsdorfer AC players
- SK Austria Klagenfurt players
- Austrian Football Bundesliga players
- 2. Liga (Austria) players
- Regionalliga players
- Austrian expatriate footballers
- French expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Germany
- Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- French expatriate sportspeople in Germany