Sven Kmetsch
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 13 August 1970 | ||
| Place of birth | Bautzen, East Germany | ||
| Height | Script error: No such module "person height". | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1975–1978 | Motor Großdubrau | ||
| 1978–1981 | Motor Bautzen | ||
| 1981–1989 | Dynamo Dresden | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1988–1989 | Dynamo Dresden II | 12 | (1) |
| 1989–1995 | Dynamo Dresden | 102 | (7) |
| 1989–1990 | → TSG Meißen | 7 | (0) |
| 1990 | → Stahl Riesa (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 1995–1998 | Hamburger SV | 80 | (4) |
| 1998–2005 | Schalke 04 | 88 | (2) |
| Total | 314 | (14) | |
| International career | |||
| 1997–1998 | Germany | 2 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2005–2010 | Schalke 04 II (assistant)[1] | ||
| 2008 | Schalke 04 II (caretaker)[1] | ||
| 2010–2011 | FC Ingolstadt 04 (assistant)[1] | ||
| 2012–2015 | FSV Frankfurt (assistant)[1] | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Sven Kmetsch (born 13 August 1970, in Bautzen, Saxony) is a retired German footballer, who played as a defensive midfielder.
Club career
Including his youth career, Kmetsch spent 14 years at Dynamo Dresden, winning the double in his last season, with one of his midfield teammates being Matthias Sammer. After the German reunification, he would play with the team four consecutive years in the Bundesliga, his competition debut coming on 14 September 1991, in a 3–0 home win against SG Wattenscheid 09.
After Dynamo's double relegation in 1995, Kmetsch spent three seasons with Hamburger SV, enjoying his best year in 1996–97 – 32 games, four goals – but his team could only rank 13th. He subsequently signed for FC Schalke 04, where he would win two consecutive German Cups, being however mostly a backup player during his seven-year spell.
After no appearances whatsoever from 2003–05 combined, Kmetsch retired, having various spells as coach of Schalke's second team. After being released in early 2010, he held talks with TSV Germania Windeck and Bayer Leverkusen II to join Heiko Scholz's coaching staff.[2]
International career
Kmetsch gained two caps for Germany, his debut coming on 10 September 1997, in a 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Armenia, in Dortmund: at half-time, with the score at 0–0 (eventually 4–0), he was replaced by another debutee, Lars Ricken.
His second and final appearance was made five months later, in a friendly with Oman (another start, in a 2–0 win).
Honours
- DDR-Oberliga: 1989–90
- FDGB-Pokal: 1989–90
- DFB-Pokal: 2000–01, 2001–02
- DFB-Ligapokal: runner-up 2001, 2002
References
External links
- Sven Kmetsch profile at Fussballdaten
- Sven Kmetsch at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- 1970 births
- Living people
- German footballers
- East German footballers
- Association football midfielders
- Bundesliga players
- Dynamo Dresden II players
- Dynamo Dresden players
- Hamburger SV players
- FC Schalke 04 players
- Germany international footballers
- German football managers
