Burkhard Reich

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Burkhard Reich
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Reich with BFC Dynamo in 1989
Personal information
Date of birth (1964-12-01) 1 December 1964 (age 59)
Place of birth Fürstenwalde, East Germany
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1974–1977 SG Dynamo Fürstenwalde
1977–1981 BFC Dynamo
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1981–1986 SG Dynamo Fürstenwalde 66 (17)
1986–1989 BFC Dynamo II 10 (0)
1986–1991 BFC Dynamo / FC Berlin 102 (16)
1991–1999 Karlsruher SC 214 (15)
1999–2000 VfB Leipzig 33 (4)
Total425(52)
International career
1987–1990 East Germany 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Burkhard Reich (born 1 December 1964) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender. [1] He is currently the athletic director for Karlsruher SC II.

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Reich began to play football for SG Dynamo Fürstenwalde and joined the youth academy of BFC Dynamo at 12-years-old in 1977. He then returned to SG Dynamo Fürstenwalde when he was 17 years old. [2] He made his professional debut for SG Dynamo Fürstenwalde in the DDR-Liga in 1981. The coach of BFC Dynamo Jürgen Bogs was so impressed by Reich after a friendly match between SG Dynamo Fürstenwalde and BFC Dynamo that he decided to bring him back to BFC Dynamo during the 1985–86 season. [2] Reich scored his first goal in the DDR-Oberliga in the derby against 1. FC Union Berlin at the Stadion der Weltjugend on 13 September 1986. BFC Dynamo won the match with a massive 8-1. [3] [4]

Reich played 302 top-flight matches in (East) German football: 102 in the Oberliga and 200 in the Bundesliga. [5]

Reich won six caps for East Germany between 1987 and 1990. [6]

Honours

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BFC Dynamo developed a very successful youth academy during the 1970s. The team had an average age of only 22.7 years before the 1978–79 season. Young talented players in the team were Hans-Jürgen Riediger, Lutz Eigendorf, Norbert Trieloff, Michael Noack, Roland Jüngling, Rainer Troppa, Bodo Rudwaleit, Ralf Sträßer, Hartmut Pelka and Arthur Ullrich. The veterans in the team were Reinhard Lauck, Frank Terletzki, Wolf-Rüdiger Netz and Bernd Brillat. The young team was coached by 31-year-old coach Jürgen Bogs.

References

  1. "Reich, Burkhard" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  2. 1 2 Müller, Ronny (8 November 2019). "Ex-DDR-Nationalspieler Burkhard Reich über den Mauerfall: "Haben wir gar nicht mitbekommen"". Sportbuzzer (in German). Hannover: Sportbuzzer GmbH. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  3. Thiemann, Klaus (16 September 1986). ""Zwillinge" eröffneten den Regien" (PDF). Die neue Fußballwoche (in German). Vol. 1986, no. 37. Berlin: DFV der DDR. p. 4. ISSN   0323-8407 . Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  4. Bertram, Marco (2015). BFC Dynamo Fußballfibel (1st ed.). Berlin: CULTURCON medien, Sole trader: Bernd Oeljeschläger. p. 86. ISBN   978-3-944068-38-1.
  5. Arnhold, Matthias (23 April 2015). "Burkhard Reich - Matches and Goals in Oberliga". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  6. Arnhold, Matthias (23 April 2015). "Burkhard Reich - International Appearances". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 28 April 2015.