Schmid is a German surname that is a cognate of "Smith", an occupational surname for a blacksmith.

People with the surname Schmid[link]

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• Alex P. Schmid, Dutch scientist on terror
• Carlo Schmid (German politician) (1896–1979), German politician
• Carlo Schmid-Sutter (born 1950), Swiss politician
• Charles Schmid (1942–1975), American serial killer
• Christopher Schmid, German musician
• Engelbert Schmid, German musician
• Erich Schmid (1907–2000), Swiss conductor
• Daniel Schmid (1941–2006), Swiss film director
• Daniel Schmid (bobsleigh) (born 1976), Swiss bobsledder
• Flavio Schmid (born 1980), Swiss soccer player
• Hans-Christian Schmid (born 1965), German film director
• Harald Schmid (born 1957), German athlete
• Heinrich Schmid (1921–1999), Swiss linguist
• Hellmut Schmid (1915–1998), Swiss geodetic scientist
• Jeanette Schmid (1924–2005), German-Czech performer
• Josef Schmid (composer) (1890–1969), German composer
• Josef Schmid (athlete) (born 1953), West German middle distance runner
• Josef Schmid (flight surgeon), NASA flight surgeon
• Kristian Schmid (born 1974), Australian actor
• Kyle Schmid (born 1984), Canadian actor
• Lothar Schmid (born 1928), German chess grandmaster
• Olaf Schmid (born 1979) Decorated UK bomb disposal officer
• Samuel Schmid (born 1948), Swiss politician
• Sigi Schmid (born 1953), American soccer coach

Company[link]

• FX Schmid

See also[link]

• All pages with titles containing "Schmid"
• Schmied
• Schmidt
• Schmitt
• Schmitz

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Richard Schmid (born 1934) is an American realist painter and author who received classical training from William H. Mosby at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. His awards include the John Singer Sargent Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the American Society of Portrait Artists, the Gold Medal from the Portrait Society of America, and he received an honorary doctorate degree from the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, CT. He is the author of several books including Alla Prima, Everything I Know about Painting and has made several instructional videos, currently released as DVDs.

External links[link]

• Biography section on official site
• Biography section on external site

Sigi Schmid

Schmid after a Sounders' match in 2010
Personal information
Full name	Siegfried Schmid
Date of birth	(1953-03-20) March 20, 1953 (age 59)
Place of birth	Tübingen, West Germany
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Seattle Sounders FC (head coach)
Youth career
Years	Team
1972–1975	UCLA Bruins
Teams managed
Years	Team
1977–1979	UCLA (assistant)
1980–1999	UCLA
1998–1999	United States U-20
1999–2004	Los Angeles Galaxy
2005	United States U-20
2006–2008	Columbus Crew
2009–	Seattle Sounders FC

Siegfried "Sigi" Schmid (born March 20, 1953) is a German-American soccer coach. Born in Tübingen, West Germany, he moved to the United States with his family when he was a child. He played college soccer from 1972 to 1975 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he was a starting midfielder in each of his four years. He coached his former college team, the UCLA Bruins, between 1980 and 1999. During that period, he became one of the most successful collegiate coaches of all time, leading the Bruins to a record of 322–63–33 (wins–losses–draws). The team made 16 consecutive playoff appearances from 1983 to 1998, winning the national championship in 1985, 1990, and 1997. Schmid also worked with US Soccer throughout the 1990s.

Schmid has coached the Los Angeles Galaxy and the Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer (MLS). He became the head coach of Seattle Sounders FC in 2009. Despite never having played soccer at a professional level, he has the most coaching wins in MLS history, and was the recipient of the MLS Coach of the Year Award in 1999 and 2008. Throughout his career, Schmid has received praise from critics for his ability to identify new talent. His defensive tactics are also highly regarded in the press and often cited as a factor in his success. However, their deployment in his final two seasons with Los Angeles led directly to the termination of his contract.

With a Bachelor of Economics degree from UCLA and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Southern California, he was a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) before coaching full-time. Schmid and his wife have four children, and he has a younger brother.

Early life[link]

Sigi Schmid was born in Tübingen, West Germany, on March 20, 1953. At the age of four, he moved with his family to the United States and took up residence in Torrance, California in 1962.^[1][2] Schmid's father, Fritz, a prisoner of war during World War II, worked at Pabst Brewing; his mother, Doris, ran a Los Angeles-based German deli, where Schmid worked on weekends.^[3] Schmid's family spoke German at home, making him feel German despite spending so much of his life in America.^[2] He began school in the United States with little understanding of English and a stuttering speech disorder he did not overcome until high school.^[4] In his youth, Schmid visited Germany every summer, playing soccer with the local children and watching Bundesliga clubs play exhibition matches in neighboring towns.^[4] In 1964, Schmid played for the inaugural American Youth Soccer Organization team, an achievement for which he was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1996.^[5]

Despite Schmid's early soccer experience, his parents thought a career in the sport was unfeasible and encouraged him to pursue business. He enrolled at UCLA in 1972 and was a starting midfielder for the UCLA Bruins from 1972 to 1975.^[5] In his first two seasons, the Bruins were national runners-up in the championships,^[6] and advanced to the national semifinals in 1974.^[7] In his senior year, Schmid was selected to the 1975 All Far-West team.^[5] Schmid completed his playing career at UCLA ranked 11th in all-time assists at the school.^[8]

He received his Bachelor of Economics degree in 1976 before earning a Master of Business Administration from the University of Southern California.^[4] Between 1978 and 1984, he worked eight months of the year as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).^[9]

Coaching career[link]

UCLA and US Soccer[link]

Schmid's first coaching experience was in 1975 for Bishop Montgomery High School. He also founded and coached a small club called the South Bay Vikings.^[10] Between 1977 and 1979, he served as an assistant coach under Steve Gay at UCLA.^[5] Schmid took over as head coach after Gay left the position in 1980.^[8] He began focusing solely on coaching before the 1984 season and was named "Coach of the Year" by the magazine Soccer America.^[4][5] UCLA then won the 1985 NCAA Division I championship by defeating American University 1–0 after eight periods of overtime.^[11] In his first 10 years as coach, the Bruins won or tied 85 percent of their games.^[12]

The Bruins won the 1990 national championship by defeating Rutgers 4–3 on penalty kicks after a scoreless regulation, two sessions of overtime, and another two periods of sudden-death.^[13] During the 22-game season, UCLA outscored their opponents 61–16.^[14] The team continued to thrive in the following season, part of their success coming from Schmid's decision to move Cobi Jones from a midfield position to forward.^[15] Jones later played for Schmid in the MLS and became a top player for the national team.^[16] Schmid was named the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Coach of the Year for three years straight (1995–97),^[5] and NCAA Coach of the Year in 1997 after UCLA defeated the University of Virginia to win a third NCAA championship.^[17] A reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch wrote that after winning just two titles in 17 postseason appearances, UCLA had finally shed "its 'underachiever' label".^[18] The writer also applauded Schmid's decision to move the team's leading striker into a midfield position which led to the player scoring the winning goal.^[18]

Schmid spent 19 seasons as the head coach at UCLA, accumulating a record of 322–63–33 (wins–losses–draws),^[9] and reaching 16 consecutive playoffs between 1983 and 1998. He earned a reputation for producing some of the nation's best goalkeepers when David Vanole, Brad Friedel, and Matt Reis came through the university.^[19] By 1994, he had coached 16 players at UCLA who were later selected for the US national team.^[5] Schmid avoided recruiting foreign talent to bolster his squad. He relied mainly on players from California, whom he believed to be less physically aggressive but more creative and attacking.^[8]

While coaching at UCLA, Schmid began to work with the US national team. He was the assistant coach at the 1991 World University Games and traveled with the team to Germany in the fall of 1992. In January 1993, he was selected as an assistant to Bora Milutinovic for the 1994 FIFA World Cup,^[20][21] during which five of Schmid's UCLA players appeared for the national team.^[7] He continued as an assistant during the 1995 Pan American Games.^[20] After being appointed US Under-20 national team coach in January 1998, Schmid built his squad around defensive tactics. The team achieved second place in their group during the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship, defeating England and Cameroon, but were eliminated by the eventual champions Spain in the opening knockout round.^[16][22] Schmid returned to coach the U-20 national team at the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship.^[22] The US won the group in the opening stage of the tournament without conceding a goal,^[23] but lost to Italy in the first round of the knockout stage.^[24] One of the forwards on the national team, Eric Wynalda, said that Schmid's organization on the field was disciplined. Wynalda commented that Schmid had a "great handle on the defensive side of the game" while he also admired that the strikers were allowed to be creative.^[16] Schmid was inducted into the UCLA Hall of Fame in 2004 after working with UCLA, the national team, and the Los Angeles Galaxy.^[25]

Los Angeles Galaxy[link]

Schmid left UCLA to replace Octavio Zambrano as head coach of the Los Angeles Galaxy five games into the 1999 MLS season.^[26] At the time, the team was ranked fifth in the Western Conference with a tally of only three goals.^[26] Under Schmid in the remainder of the season, the team had a record of 17–9, finished with the second-best record in the league and won their conference, earning him the MLS Coach of the Year Award.^[27] The team's captain, Robin Fraser, gave credit to Schmid's emphasis on defense after being named the MLS defender of the year.^[28] Los Angeles lost 2–0 to D.C. United in that year's MLS Cup.^[29] Schmid made critical comments of the referees after the match; he received a $1,000 fine and suspension for the first game of the following season.^[30]

In 2000, Schmid guided Los Angeles to the playoffs but lost in the semifinals to the Kansas City Wizards. The team also played in that year's CONCACAF Champions' Cup, a competition consisting of the best clubs from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. The Galaxy defeated the Honduran champion Olimpia 3–2 to win the Cup.^[31][32] Schmid was forced to play an atypical squad since the final was held during the MLS off-season while adjustments to the following season's lineup were being made.^[33]

His successful team of 2001 enjoyed attacking play.^[34] The squad included experienced players such as Cobi Jones, Sasha Victorine, Luis Hernández, Simon Elliott, and Mauricio Cienfuegos. The Galaxy won the conference by two points and finished fourth overall with a 14–7–5 record.^[35] The team went on to lose to the San Jose Earthquakes in the MLS Cup,^[36] but won the US Open Cup a week later with a 2–1 overtime victory against the New England Revolution.^[37]

Success followed in 2002 when the Galaxy won the Supporters' Shield for having the best regular season record in the league. Schmid was lauded for his defensive tactics after adjusting the team's standard formation to a 3–5–2 early in the season.^[38] The shift allowed Alexi Lalas to play as a sweeper without specific marking responsibilities in the three-man defensive line.^[16][39] Schmid also brought Guatemalan forward Carlos Ruiz to the team; Ruiz won league Most Valuable Player (MVP) award that year.^[40] Amidst criticism for failing to win in previous years, the franchise won its first MLS Cup with a 1–0 overtime victory against New England.^[41][42] The team again reached the Open Cup final but lost to the Columbus Crew.^[43]

Victory in the MLS Cup earned the team another berth in the 2003 CONCACAF Champions' Cup.^[44] Los Angeles advanced past Motagua in the first round but fell against Necaxa in the quarterfinals.^[45] In MLS, the club had its first losing season with a 9–12–9 record and no victories on the road.^[46] The Galaxy failed to score goals consistently during the year, managing only a fourth place finish in the five-team Western Conference. In the first round of the playoffs, Los Angeles defeated San Jose 2–0 in the first leg, but during the second leg, conceded five goals in the second half of the match and were eliminated. Schmid was criticized by fans and the press speculated he would not return in 2004.^[40][47] A local writer put some of the blame on a switch to defensive style of play while some players questioned his tactics.^[46] After it was announced that he would remain in his role next season, Schmid expected a year of rebuilding the team.^[48] The following year, he was picked to coach the Western Conference in the All-Star game. Midway through the season, with the Galaxy in first place, Schmid was fired after a five-game stretch without any wins, in which the team scored only three goals.^[49] General manager Doug Hamilton said that the team had a mission "to compete for and win championships," and that "a more entertaining and attractive product on the field." was needed.^[50] Schmid left with an overall record of 79–53–32 with a 16–7–3 mark in the playoffs.

Reflecting on his demeanor in Los Angeles, Lalas said Schmid had "epic explosions".^[51] One reporter called him "combustible",^[52] while another referred to him as "fiery".^[51] Lalas also commented that playing for Schmid in Los Angeles required professionalism on and off the field.^[16]

Columbus Crew[link]

Schmid in 2008

Schmid returned to the league as coach of the Columbus Crew in 2006, rated by the team's general manager Mark McCullers as "the best coach in America".^[53] The team contained young talent but lacked depth and had no star players.^[54] In August, after a streak of 13 winless matches, Schmid considered resigning.^[55] The team suffered from injuries and inconsistent lineups throughout the season, finishing last in the Eastern Conference with just 30 goals, the lowest in the league.^[56][57]

By the start of 2007, Schmid had rebuilt the roster, keeping only three players he had inherited and acquiring Argentine attacker Guillermo Barros Schelotto.^[51] Schmid cut the Crew's goalkeeper, Jon Busch who had been with the team for five years. Schmid had concerns over Busch's playing style and fitness. Busch later criticised Schmid's management skills, and said he would never work for the coach again, but gave credit to Schmid's tactical approach.^[58] Scheletto's contributions were crucial to Columbus's improvement that season, but the team failed to make the playoffs.^[53] A writer for ESPN speculated that the Crew suffered because the team management would not spend more money, while Schmid lamented that he could not attract a foreign star to the little known city of Columbus.^[54][59]

The Crew's performance improved remarkably in the 2008 season. Schmid adjusted their offensive tactics to be based on ball possession and flank speed. He made Schelotto a central part of the plan in a roaming playmaker position, a role in which Schelotto excelled and the Argentinian was named the league's MVP.^[60] With a 1–0 victory over the Houston Dynamo at Crew Stadium on April 26, Schmid became the second MLS coach to win 100 regular-season games.^[61] The Crew went on to win the Supporters' Shield with the best record in the league. In the playoffs, Columbus defeated the New York Red Bulls 3–1 at Schmid's former home stadium, Los Angeles's Home Depot Center, to win the MLS Cup.^[62] Schmid received the Coach of the Year Award for the second time.^[63] Part of the success was attributed to Schmid's restructuring of the squad in 2006 and 2007.^[60]

Schmid declined a contract offer from Columbus after the 2008 season and became coach of Seattle Sounders FC. The Crew's ownership believed that Schmid had been in contact with Sounders FC despite being denied permission to talk to other teams during the season. It was also alleged that he shared confidential information with Seattle after his contract with the Crew had ended.^[64] The MLS ruled that no tampering had occurred, but ordered Sounders FC to financially compensate the Crew.^[65]

Seattle Sounders FC[link]

Schmid was named the first coach of the new expansion franchise, Seattle Sounders FC.^[66] In their 2009 inaugural season, Seattle defeated D.C. United to win the US Open Cup.^[67] On October 24, 2009, Seattle defeated FC Dallas 2–1, giving Schmid his 125th career MLS regular season win; this win moved Schmid past Bob Bradley for the most wins in MLS history.^[68] He led Seattle to the playoffs where, in the first round, the Dynamo defeated the team 1–0 in overtime of the second leg. Seattle was the first expansion team to make the playoffs in an inaugural season since the 1998 Chicago Fire, when the league was just two years old.^[67]

Schmid and a member of his staff before a 2010 US Open Cup match

The team began the 2010 MLS season slowly with injuries to key players that impacted Schmid's starting lineups. The team had a record of 4–8–3 over the first 15 games.^[69] The Sounders also advanced through the preliminary round of the 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League but failed to get past the group stage.^[70] The 2010 US Open Cup campaign culminated in Schmid winning his third championship with a 2–1 victory over the Crew at Seattle's Qwest Field. No MLS team had previously won back-to-back Open Cups.^[71] The Sounders rebounded in the second half of the regular season with a 10–2–3 record to qualify for the playoffs. The team faced Bruce Arena's Galaxy in the two-legged quarter-final. Both coaches are considered to be among the best in the MLS, and it was the first meeting between the two in the playoffs. The Sounders lost by a 3–1 aggregate and Arena moved within one game of Schmid's MLS postseason record of 19 wins.^[72][73]

Former Sounders FC midfielder Peter Vagenas has known Schmid since 1995, and he has said that Schmid has evolved as a coach and has become easier to play for. He also told The Seattle Times: "A lot of coaches talk the talk but don't necessarily walk the walk, and there's nobody that works harder than he does."^[4]

After two and a half seasons with the Sounders, Schmid signed a long-term contract extension on July 14, 2011 which could keep him in Seattle through the 2015 MLS season.^[74] The extension is dependent on some club options and performance triggers. Although some fans had become frustrated with what they saw as tactical inflexibility and mismanagement of players, general manager Adrian Hanauer praised Schmid's professionalism and success.^[75][76] The year ended with the Sounders winning a third consecutive US Open Cup, advancing to the knock-out stages of the CONCACAF Champions League, and an 18–7–9 regular season record. They were again eliminated from the MLS Cup playoffs in the conference semifinal round by Real Salt Lake.

Personal life[link]

Schmid lives in Bellevue, Washington during the season.^[4] His wife Valerie lives in the couple's home in California. They have four children: Erik, Kurt, Kyle, and Lacey. Kurt played soccer at Wake Forest and UCLA, and has been an assistant coach at St. Mary's College and UC Irvine. He is currently an assistant coach for Sounders FC.^[77] Kyle has played as a defender at UC Irvine and was in the USL Premier Development League with Orange County Blue Star.^[9] Schmid has rarely missed game days in the MLS, but took time off for Lacey and Kurt's weddings and Kurt's college graduation.^[78] Schmid's younger brother, Roland, lives in the Seattle area, and having family in the area was one of the factors which persuaded Schmid to accept the job at Seattle.^[79][80]

Honors[link]

Individual[link]

• National Soccer Hall of Fame inductee: 1996^[5]
• NCAA Coach of the Year: 1997^[9]
• MLS Coach of the Year Award: 1999, 2008^[81]
• UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame inductee: 1996^[5]

Managerial[link]

• College Cup: 1985, 1990, 1997^[9]
• CONCACAF Champions' Cup: 2000^[9]
• Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup: 2001,^[9] 2009,^[67] 2010^[82] 2011
• MLS Supporters' Shield: 2002, 2008^[9]
• MLS Cup: 2002, 2008^[9]

Managerial statistics[link]

As of January 28, 2012.^[82]

Note: Only regular season matches are shown for the MLS teams

See also[link]

Association football portal

• List of current MLS coaches

References[link]

External links[link]

• Seattle Sounders Coaching Biography

v t e United States squad – 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship 1 Rimando 2 Thorrington 3 Garcia 4 Califf 5 Pierce 6 Cherundolo 7 Downing 8 Morrison 9 Futagaki 10 Albright 11 Gomez 12 Tsakiris 13 Bocanegra 14 Goldsmith 15 Twellman 16 Gibbs 17 Beasley 18 Howard Coach: Schmid

Rainhard Fendrich
Fendrich in concert with Austria3 in 2006.
Background information
Birth name	Rainhard Jürgen Fendrich
Also known as	Raini
Born	(1955-02-27) 27 February 1955 (age 57)
Origin	Vienna, Austria
Genres	Pop, folk rock
Occupations	Musician, composer, actor, entertainer
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1980–present
Associated acts	Austria3
Website	rainhard-fendrich.at (German)

Rainhard Jürgen Fendrich (born 27 February 1955 in Vienna) is an Austrian singer, composer, entertainer, and actor. He is one of the most successful Austropop musicians. His lyrics are written in Viennese German, and he is very popular in Austria, but less in other German-speaking countries, and by far less known in non-German speaking ones. His song from 1990, "I am from Austria" (its lyrics are, except for this one line, in Viennese German) is still popular in Austria.

Life[link]

Rainhard, called "Raini" by his friends, attended a Catholic boarding school. By his own admission he was a lazy pupil, and shy. He got his first guitar on his 15th birthday, and taught himself how to play it and started writing songs. He later began to study law, but soon gave up and took several jobs in order to finance his education as a professional actor and singer.

He has acted in the musicals Die Gräfin vom Naschmarkt (1980), Jesus Christ Superstar (Judas, 1982), Chicago (Billy Flynn, 1998), and he played Jeff Zodiak in the musical Wake Up, which he co-wrote with Harold Faltermeyer (and which failed) in 2002 (all of those in Vienna, Austria). He has also appeared in numerous Austrian and German movies.^[1]

As an entertainer, he followed Rudi Carrell in the ARD TV-show Herzblatt, was the first host of Die Millionenshow (the Austrian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire) and for a while had his own TV comedy show, Nix Is Fix, produced by ORF and ARD.

Fendrich received the Austrian Golden Romy award for TV entertainment.^[2] In 1994, 1995 and 2000, he was nominated for the Amadeus Austrian Music Award four times before winning it in 2002. Austrian "NEWS" magazine readers voted him "Best Entertainer of the Decade" in same year.

Donauinselfest, Vienna, 2007

Besides working as a solo artist, he gathered, in 1997, the Austrian singer-guitarists (also his friends) Georg Danzer and Wolfgang Ambros for one single beneficial concert in favour of homeless people. Their success was overwhelming, and the three individualists showed up on stage as Austria3^[3] from that day, until they decided to stop that project in 2006. However, at Georg Danzer's comeback concert in Vienna on 16 April 2007, they met again for a few songs, and even "thought" in public about re-uniting in 2008. This can not happen, as Danzer died of lung cancer on 21 June 2007.

The concert on Donauinselfest which Fendrich gave "instead and for Georg Danzer" who a few weeks before the event had to refuse because of his rapidly progressing disease, attracted 200.000 fans on 23 June 2007.^[4]

Divorce and drugs[link]

Fendrich was married to Andrea Sator from 1984–2004. Their "dirty" divorce had considerable publicity. The couple has two sons, Lucas and Florian. A daughter, Theresa-Valentina, had died as a baby in 1989. Lucas started a musician's career, but as of 2007, without much success. From 2004, Fendrich lived with singer and performer Ina Nadine Wagler and stayed mainly on his finca in Majorca.

In April 2006, he was observed by Vienna police buying cocaine. He admitted to have taken the drug for 15 years and stated to be "glad that this came to an end". The artist went to drug rehab immediately thereafter, but was however fined € 37.000 in May, 2006. This had no perceptible influence on his popularity.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Live albums[link]

Best-Ofs and compilations[link]

Austria 3[link]

• 1998: Austria3 - Live (with Wolfgang Ambros and Georg Danzer)
• 1998: Austria3 - Live Vol. 2 (with Wolfgang Ambros and Georg Danzer)
• 2000: Austria3 - Die Dritte (with Wolfgang Ambros and Georg Danzer)

DVDs[link]

• 2002: Ein Saitensprung
• 2004: Jetzt

Singles[link]