Personal information | |||
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Full name | Tan-Kenneth Jerico Leka-Schmidt | ||
Date of birth | 3 June 2002 | ||
Place of birth | Freiburg, Germany | ||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Left-back, centre-back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | SC Freiburg | ||
Number | 4 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2017 | Emmendingen | ||
2017–2023 | SC Freiburg | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2020–2023 | SC Freiburg II | 55 | (0) |
2023– | SC Freiburg | 10 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2019 | Germany U18 | 2 | (1) |
2020 | Germany U19 | 1 | (0) |
2021–2022 | Germany U20 | 11 | (1) |
2023– | Germany U21 | 4 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 May 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:04, 19 October 2023 (UTC) |
Tan-Kenneth Jerico Leka-Schmidt (born 3 June 2002), known as Kenneth Schmidt, is a German footballer who plays as a left-back or centre-back for Bundesliga club SC Freiburg.
A native of Freiburg, Schmidt joined the city's giant SC Freiburg from Emmendingen in 2017. He was promoted to the senior team in 2023 after spending three years with the reserves team. He made his professional debut on 17 March 2023 in the UEFA Europa League round of 16 game against Juventus. [1]
Schmidt has represented Germany at youth international level. [2]
He was born to a German father and a mother of Vietnamese descent. [3]
Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
SC Freiburg II | 2020–21 | Regionalliga | 5 | 0 | – | – | – | 5 | 0 | |||
2021–22 | 3. Liga | 28 | 0 | – | – | – | 28 | 0 | ||||
2022–23 | 3. Liga | 22 | 0 | – | – | – | 22 | 0 | ||||
Total | 55 | 0 | – | – | – | 55 | 0 | |||||
SC Freiburg | 2022–23 | Bundesliga | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | – | 6 | 0 | |
2023–24 | Bundesliga | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | – | 7 | 0 | ||
Total | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | ||
Career total | 65 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 0 |
Sport-Club Freiburg e.V., commonly known as SC Freiburg, is a German professional football club, based in the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg. It plays in the Bundesliga, having been promoted as champions from the 2. Bundesliga in 2016. Between 1954 and 2021, Freiburg's stadium was the Dreisamstadion. The club moved to the newly built Europa-Park Stadion in 2021. Volker Finke, who was the club's manager between 1991 and 2007, was the longest-serving manager in the history of professional football in Germany until 2023, when Frank Schmidt completed 16 years as coach of Heidenheim and became the longest-serving coach in the history of professional football in Germany. Joachim Löw, former manager of the Germany national team, is the club's second-highest all-time leading goal scorer, with 81 goals in 252 games during his three spells at the club, behind Nils Petersen.
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