 Hinkel coaching Spartak Moscow in 2020 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1982-03-26)26 March 1982 (age 43) | ||
| Place of birth | Backnang,West Germany | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position | Right-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1987–1992 | TSV Leutenbach | ||
| 1992–1999 | VfB Stuttgart | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1999–2001 | VfB Stuttgart II | 31 | (0) |
| 2000–2006 | VfB Stuttgart | 156 | (1) |
| 2006–2008 | Sevilla | 15 | (0) |
| 2008–2011 | Celtic | 79 | (1) |
| 2011–2012 | SC Freiburg | 7 | (0) |
| Total | 282 | (2) | |
| International career | |||
| 2002–2003 | Germany U-21 | 8 | (0) |
| 2002 | Germany Team 2006 | 1 | (0) |
| 2003–2009 | Germany | 21 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2013–2014 | VfB Stuttgart (U12) | ||
| 2013–2014 | VfB Stuttgart (U16 assistant) | ||
| 2014–2015 | VfB Stuttgart (U17 assistant) | ||
| 2016 | VfB Stuttgart II (assistant) | ||
| 2016 | VfB Stuttgart (caretaker assistant) | ||
| 2016–2018 | VfB Stuttgart II | ||
| 2018 | VfB Stuttgart (caretaker) | ||
| 2019 | VfB Stuttgart (assistant) | ||
| 2019 | VfB Stuttgart II | ||
| 2019–2021 | Spartak Moscow (assistant) | ||
| 2022–2023 | RB Leipzig (assistant) | ||
| 2023– | Belgium (assistant) | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Andreas Hinkel (born 26 March 1982) is a Germanfootball coach and a former player. Hinkel played as aright-back and earned 21caps for theGermany national team. He was known for his attacking play on the flanks and defensive solidity.[1]
He started his career withBundesliga side VfB Stuttgart in 2000, before moving toLa Liga clubSevilla in 2006. In January 2008, he signed forScottish Premier League clubCeltic for £1.9 million. He leftCeltic and joined Bundesliga sideFreiburg after his contract expired in summer 2011. He had spent the entire2010–11 season out due to a cruciate ligament injury.
Hinkel played 21 matches for Germany between 2003 and 2009, and was in their squad forEuro 2004.
After finishing second withVfB Stuttgart in the2002–03 season, and already established as first-choice, Hinkel took part inChampions League for the first time in his career. In March 2004, however, he suffered akneeligament injury.
On 23 June 2006, Hinkel signed a four-year contract withSevilla, where he won theUEFA Cup and theUEFA Super Cup. The transfer fee was estimated to be around €4 million. However, he found himself unable to dislodge Sevilla's regular right-backDaniel Alves.[2]
On 4 January 2008, Hinkel was confirmed as aCeltic player, for a fee of £1.9 million.[2] Hinkel played his first Celtic game in a 3–0Scottish Cup win overStirling Albion eight days later, and scored his first goal for Celtic a month later, in a 3–0 win overHearts atCeltic 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 aScottish League Cup winners medal after a 2–0 win overRangers in thefinal.[4]
Hinkel played a vital part in Celtic'sChampions League third qualifying round second-leg victory over Russian outfitDinamo Moscow on 5 August 2009. The match ended 2–0 tothe Hoops with Hinkel assistingScott McDonald for the opener then hitting a long hopeful punt up the pitch whichGeorgios Samaras latched onto before netting alast-minute winner.[5] The German also cleared two goal-bound Dinamo strikes off the line. Hinkel had 29 SPL matches.[6]
For the first match of the 2010–11 season on 14 August, Hinkel was dropped in favour of new signingCha Du-Ri. The following week, he suffered ananterior cruciate ligament injury and was ruled out for nine months.[7] He resumed training the following January.[8] On 1 July 2011, Hinkel left Celtic after his contract expired.[9]
On 6 October 2011,SC Freiburg signed Hinkel on a free transfer.
On 10 September 2012, Hinkel announced his immediate retirement.[10]
Hinkel has representedGermany on 21 occasions at senior level, making his debut in 2003 againstSerbia and Montenegro.[11] He was part of the German squad duringEuro 2004 (having recovered from aforementioned knee injury), but missed the2006 World Cup.[12] Hinkel's international involvement was kept to a minimum when at Sevilla due to lack of first-team football and the emergence ofPhilipp Lahm as first-choice right-back ahead of him.[13] Hinkel was also not called up forEuro 2008[13] or the2010 World Cup.[12]
Between 2014 and 2016, Hinkel was an assistant coach in Stuttgart's youth system, the first team, and thereserve team.[14] He started from the 2013/14 season as manager for the U12 team and also as assistant manager for the U16s.[15] In the 2014/15 season, he was the assistant manager of the U17s under managerDomenico Tedesco.[16] At the end of the season, Hinkel and Tedesco unexpectedly left the club, after not receiving new contracts.[17] It was later revealed, that Hinkel had been offered a contract extension, but wasn't satisfied with the esteem he had received.[18]
On 26 January 2016, he returned to Stuttgart as assistant manager for the reserve team.[18] In September 2016, he became assistant manager for the first team for a short period as an interim solution after first team managerJos Luhukay had left the club.[19] On 19 December 2016, Hinkel became the manager of Stuttgart II.[20] Stuttgart reorganized the reserve team and appointed Hinkel to a new role.[21] Hinkel is also completing a coaching course.[21] He finished with a record of 21 wins, 11 draws, and 17 losses.[22] On 7 October 2018, he was appointed as the interim head coach of VfB Stuttgart[23] untilMarkus Weinzierl took over as head coach two days later.[24] He did not manage any matches as interim head coach.[25]
In January 2019, Hinkel returned to the club once again, this time as assistant manager of the first team.[26] On 1 April 2019, Hinkel was appointed as the manager of the reserve team following the firing ofMarc Kienle.[27]
On 14 October 2019, he joinedRussian Premier League clubFC Spartak Moscow as an assistant to newly appointed managerDomenico Tedesco.[28] He has taken charge of the team numerous times because of Tedesco's multiple suspensions. He left Spartak at the end of the 2020–21 season after helping to guide them to theUEFA Champions League qualification spot, as Tedesco's contract expired.
| Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Europe | Total | Ref. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| VfB Stuttgart II | 2000–01 | Regionalliga Süd | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 20 | 0 | [29][30] | ||
| VfB Stuttgart | 2000–01 | Bundesliga | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | 16 | 0 | [31][32] | |
| 2001–02 | 30 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 33 | 0 | [33] | ||||
| 2002–03 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 12 | 0 | 47 | 0 | [30] | |||
| 2003–04 | 28 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 35 | 0 | [30] | ||
| 2004–05 | 29 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 39 | 2 | [30] | ||
| 2005–06 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 0 | [30] | ||
| Total | 156 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 203 | 2 | — | ||
| Sevilla | 2006–07 | La Liga | 13 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | 8 | 0 | 26 | 0 | [30] | |
| 2007–08 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | [30] | |||
| Total | 15 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | 11 | 0 | 32 | 0 | — | |||
| Celtic | 2007–08 | Premier League | 16 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 1 | [34] |
| 2008–09 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 42 | 0 | [30][35] | ||
| 2009–10 | 31 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 39 | 0 | [36] | ||
| Total | 79 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 100 | 1 | — | ||
| SC Freiburg | 2011–12 | Bundesliga | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 7 | 0 | [30] | ||
| SC Freiburg II | 2011–12 | Regionalliga Südwest | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | [30] | |||
| Career total | 277 | 2 | 28 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 47 | 1 | 362 | 3 | — | ||
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | W | D | L | Win % | Ref. | ||||||
| VfB Stuttgart II | 19 December 2016[20] | 30 June 2018[21] | 49 | 21 | 11 | 17 | 042.86 | [22] | |||
| VfB Stuttgart | 7 October 2018[25] | 9 October 2018[25] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | !— | [25] | |||
| Total | 49 | 21 | 11 | 17 | 042.86 | — | |||||
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