Patrick Gerry-Anthony Alcala Reichelt (born June 15, 1988) is a professional

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who plays as a winger or a

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for

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club Kuala Lumpur City. Born in Germany, he represents the Philippines national team.

Club career

Reichelt started his football career in Germany, playing for various clubs including Nordberliner SC 74, Reinickendorfer Füchse, Energie Cottbus II, and TSG Neustrelitz Then United Football League (ULF) side

Global F.C. Global Football Club was a professional association football, football club that last played in the Philippines Football League (PFL), the top flight of Philippines' club football. The club has won four league titles, two UFL Cups, one UFL FA Cu ...

was the first Philippine-based club Reichelt played for, helping Global win its first title in his first season with the club in

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. He played for Singhtarua F.C. of the

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for the 2013 season. Reichelt moved back to the Philippines to play for then UFL-side Ceres F.C. He stayed with the club, which became Ceres–Negros F.C. when it joined the

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in 2017, for five seasons.

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signed in Reichelt in January 2019 to play for the club in the

. He became Melaka's top scorer for the 2019 season and had an opportunity to continue playing for the club for at least another season. However Reichelt returned to Thailand in 2020 to join

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club

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. He sustained a head injury in the early parts of the 2020 season and had to play with protective headgear upon his return from injury.

International career

Reichelt represents the

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at international level. He first became involved with the national team in 2011, as a participant of a training camp in

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. However an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear on the first day of the training camp forced his exclusion from the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers and the

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for that year. He made his debut for the Philippines at the age of 24 on 5 September 2012 against

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which ended in a scoreless draw. Being a vital part of the Philippine national team since then, he played in 3 editions of the

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(2012, 2014, 2018) and helped the team qualify for the very first time for the

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. He started in all three games for the national team in the

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International goals

:''Scores and results list the Philippines' goal tally first.''

Honours

Global * UFL Division 1:

Philippines *

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References

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* 1988 births Living people German footballers Filipino footballers Filipino expatriate footballers Philippines men's international footballers German sportspeople of Filipino descent Men's association football wingers FC Energie Cottbus II players Füchse Berlin Reinickendorf players Global F.C. players United City F.C. players TSG Neustrelitz players Patrick Reichelt Patrick Reichelt Expatriate footballers in Thailand Filipino expatriate sportspeople in Thailand 2019 AFC Asian Cup players {{Philippines-footy-bio-stub