Manuel Schmiedebach is a 29-year-old midfielder for Hannover 96. Schmiedebach was born on December 5th, 1988 in West Berlin, West Germany, and spent his youth career playing for Nordberliner SC until 2003 and Hertha Berlin from 2003 to 2006. From 2006 to 2008, he spent the first years of his senior career on Hertha’s reserve squad, and then joined Hannover 96 II in the Regionalliga Nord on a free transfer. The following season, in November 2009, he made his first appearance in the Bundesliga playing against his former club. Since then, he has made approximately 200 appearances for Hannover. Schmiedebach grew up bilingual in German and Spanish, as his mother Betty is a Columbian-born Venezuelan of Moroccan descent.