Burkhard Reich

Burkhard Reich ( born December 1, 1964 in Fürstenwalde / Spree ) is a former German football player.

Burkhard Reich played in his youth at the SG Dynamo Fiirstenwalde and was as a 12- year-old brought to the young school of BFC Dynamo in 1977. There he was found to be too inflexible and retired so that Reich 1981 - even as a teenager - back first went to Fiirstenwalde and for his hometown club in the GDR League, the second division of the GDR, played. As Fiirstenwalde took in a test match against BFC Dynamo, was the coach of the championship record, Jürgen Bogs, impressed by the tall defender so that he in 1986 brought him back to the BFC, without knowing that Empire had already gone through the youth school of Berlin.

The header and combative Reich, who always was good for a goal, immediately earned itself a permanent place in the BFC and won with the club in 1987 and 1988, the East German championship and the fdgb Cup in 1988 and 1989. Having been in the Olympic selection the GDR had been appointed, denied Empire between 1987 and 1990 also 6 caps for the East German national team, where he made his debut on 13 May 1987 in Brandenburg 2-0 against Czechoslovakia.

In 1991, the now playing under the name FC Berlin club not made ​​it into the all-German professional football, so Burkhard Reich moved to Bundesliga side Karlsruher SC. There he coined the successful period of Baden with critical and stood between 1991 and 1998 in 200 Bundesliga games for the KSC on the court. He was invited to a scholarship course the DFB in 1992, made ​​it into the national team but could not. In 1994 he reached the semi-finals with the KSC in the UEFA Cup, where the Baden dropped out after two draws only on away goals against Casino Salzburg.

After the descent of the Karlsruher SC in the second division in 1998 Empire remained loyal to the association initially, but as the revival failed, he moved to VfB Leipzig in the Regionalliga, where he end his career.

In the summer of 2001 he returned to KSC, where he worked in the marketing / merchandising, as well as fan representative as team manager and sporting director of the Under 23 (KSC II). Since the season 2011/12 he is team manager of KSC. He is also co-founder, president and captain of the " KSC- Allstars eV", a team of former players of the club.

Balance sheet as a player

  • DDR - Oberliga: 102 Spiele/16 Goals
  • 1st Bundesliga: 200/14
  • Bundesliga 2: 14/1
  • Regional: 33/4
  • European Cup: 25/ 0
  • International Caps: 6/0
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