Steve Schmutzler

Steve Schmutzler
World Cup 2011
portrait
Date of birth	June 18, 1984
place of birth	Rodewisch, Germany
size	182 cm
position	attack
societies
1991–2003 2003–2004 2004–2006 2006–2017 2017/18 2018–	SG Waldkirchen TV Nürnberg-Eibach SSV Blau-Weiß Gersdorf MTV Rosenheim TSV Pfungstadt MTV Rosenheim
National team
since 2007	61 international matches (15 youth / 46 men)
successes
2001 2002 2011 2013 2015 2016 2017 2019	U18 European Champion U18 European Champion World Champion World Games Winner World Champion European Champion World Games Winner World Champion
As of January 15, 2018

Steve Schmutzler (born June 18, 1984 in Rodewisch ) is a German fistball player . He made his international debut in 2007 at the spring tournament in Vaihingen / Enz against Switzerland . His Bundesliga and national team career began in Rosenheim, where he still lives and works today.

Career

Steve Schmutzler's career began as a youth player at a Saxon club, SG Waldkirchen. Due to a career change he moved to Bavaria in 2003, where he was the main attacker at MTV Rosenheim for over 10 years. He is used both in the club and in the national team on the left attacking side. In 2007 he made his international debut for the German national fistball team.

In the U18 national team he was an integral part of the team and won the European championship title in 2001 and 2002. He paused the U21 national team completely and came back in 2009 when he took the position of main attack at the 2009 World Games in Taiwan. Despite a good performance, only 4th place came out. He made a significant contribution to the 2011 world championship. In 2012, the “Österreichschreck” suffered a serious injury to the Achilles tendon and was out for a long time. The following year he fought his way back to the national team and helped win the title at the World Games in Colombia.

In his youth he was able to secure some DM titles with SG Waldkirchen. With MTV Rosenheim he was able to win the silver medal at the German championships (field) in 2008. In the hall, too, you could draw attention to yourself when Rosenheim defeated the future German champions Vaihingen / Enz in Stuttgart in 2012 and made it to the semi-finals. He recorded the following successes on grass when he won the bronze medal at the German Championships in 2015 and 2016 with MTV and at the first-ever Fistball Men's European Cup in 2016. He was also successful at the second edition of this international event with MTV Rosenheim in Diepoldsau, Switzerland. In a close final you only had to admit defeat to the hosts from Diepoldsau and thus achieved the greatest club success in history. In March 2017, he achieved the greatest success for himself and his club in the hall to date. At the "DM dahoam" they could only be stopped by the series winner from Hessen in the final.

After this success, Schmutzler left MTV Rosenheim and switched to TSV Pfungstadt for the injured Patrick Thomas. The first appearance with the new club was in Curitiba / BRA at the highest club championship in fistball, the IFA Fistball Men's World Cup. In a tight final they lost to the South American champions from Sogipa Porto Allegre (BRA). Two months later he played again on the international stage at the EFA Fistball Men's Champions Cup (men's indoor European cup) in Brettorf. In a high-class final against the organizing TV Brettorf, he and his team left the field as the winner this time. For the 2018 field season he switched back to MTV Rosenheim, with whom he was relegated from the 1st Bundesliga South.

In 2019, Schmutzler became world champion for the third time in Winterthur . He was also elected Vice President of the World Fistball Federation (IFA). At the end of September 2019, Steve Schmutzler announced his retirement from the national team.

successes

National team

• 2001: U18 European Champion (Wallisellen / CH)
• 2002: U18 European Champion (Villach / AUT)
• 2009: 4th place World Games (Kiaushiung / TWN)
• 2010: 3rd place European Championship (Ermatingen / CH)
• 2011: World Champion (Linz / AUT)
• 2013: World Games winner (Cali / KOL)
• 2015: World Champion (Cordoba / ARG)
• 2016: European Champion (Grieskirchen / AUT)
• 2017: World Games winner (Wrocław / POL)
• 2019: World Champion (Winterthur / CH)

society

• 2008: 2nd place German championship in Hirschfelde (field)
• 2008: 5th place German championship in Düdenbüttel (field)
• 2012: 4th place German Championship in Stuttgart (Halle)
• 2015: 3rd place German championship in Hirschfelde (field)
• 2016: 3rd place Fistball Men's European Cup in Linz / AUT (field)
• 2016: 3rd place German championship in Bredstedt (field)
• 2017: 2nd place Fistball Men's European Cup in Diepoldsau / CH (field)
• 2017: 2nd place IFA Fistball World Cup in Curitiba / BRA (field)
• 2018: 1st place Fistball Men's Champions Cup in Brettorf (Halle)

Honors

On October 25, 2013, Schmutzler was honored for the World Games title in Colombia by Federal President Joachim Gauck for sporting success with the silver laurel leaf . During a celebration moderated by Johannes B. Kerner , he received the highest award for German athletes.

On February 12, 2016, he was voted Rosenheim's Sportsman of the Year 2015. Representatives of all media bodies in the city, the functionaries of the sports city association SfL and senior employees of the Rosenheim city administration were entitled to vote . In 2017 he received this award with the team.

After winning the gold medal at the World Games in Wrocław / POL, he was again awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier presented him with the badge at a festive occasion in Bellevue Palace .

Web links

• Profile at DOSB
• Portrait at Ludwig-Ball
• Portrait in the media library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Three-time world champions quit. In: faustball-Liga.de , October 5, 2019.
2. ↑ bundespraesident.de: Information on the award of the Silver Laurel Leaf (German, accessed on November 1, 2013)