Tim Reichert (born 9 October 1979 in Essen,

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...

) is a retired

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professional football player and co-founder of the

SK Gaming SK Gaming is a professional esports organization based in Germany that has teams across the world competing in different titles. SK is particularly known for their success in '' Counter-Strike'' (CS) tournaments. SK's Brazilian ''CS'' team wo ...

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clan. He is also the head of FC Schalke 04's e-sports division.

Career

Tim Reichert was signed by Rot-Weiß Oberhausen in the 2003–04 season, but was initially used in the reserve teams only. After being loaned to SSVg Velbert (2005–06), he returned to Oberhausen and played 13 matches in the 2007–08 season for Rot-Weiß. He left then on 2 June 2009 to sign with

Sportfreunde Siegen Sportfreunde Siegen is a German association football club based in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia. After going through insolvency in 2008, the first team was forcibly relegated to the fifth-tier NRW-Liga. Promotion to fourth division Regionallig ...

Personal

Reichert is also notable as an

pioneer. In 1997, he founded the clan

(named "Schroet Kommando" back then) with his brothers Ralf and Benjamin Reichert and several other gamers, among them Musa Celik. Among gamers, Tim Reichert was known as ''SK, Burke''. Remarkably, both Benjamin ''SK, Kane'' Reichert and Musa ''SK, kila'' Celik also played professional soccer for Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. In 2016, Schalke entered competitive ''League of Legends'' by purchasing an EU LCS spot and named Reichert as Head of ESport.

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Tim Reichert
at FuPa 1979 births Living people Footballers from Essen German footballers Rot-Weiß Oberhausen players German esports players 2. Bundesliga players SK Gaming players Association football midfielders {{Germany-footy-midfielder-stub