Benjamin Reichert (born 17 May 1983) is a German former professional

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

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 won ...

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clan.

Career

Reichert was born in

Essen Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as ...

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...

. He started his career in the junior teams of

Rot-Weiß Oberhausen Rot-Weiß Oberhausen is a German association football club in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was formed as ''Oberhausener SV'' in December 1904 out of the merger of ''Emschertaler SV'' (1902) and the football enthusiasts of ''Oberh ...

. His first call-up to the men's squad came in the 2002–03 season, where he was subbed into a game of ''RWO'' in the 2. Bundesliga. When Oberhausen was relegated into the Regionalliga and even into the Oberliga (third and fourth German soccer divisions), Reichert stuck with his team. He became a regular on the teams that were promoted into the Regionalliga in 2007–08 and into the 2. Bundesliga one year later. Reichert is also notable as an

pioneer. In 1997, he founded the clan

(named "Schroet Kommando" back then) with his brothers Ralf and Tim Reichert and several other gamers, among them Musa Celik. Among gamers, Reichert was known as ''SK, Kane''. Both Tim ''SK, Burke'' Reichert and Musa ''SK, kila'' Celik also played professional football for Rot-Weiß Oberhausen.

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* 1983 births Living people Footballers from Essen German men's footballers Rot-Weiß Oberhausen players Wuppertaler SV players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players German esports players SK Gaming players Men's association football defenders 21st-century German sportsmen {{eSports-player-stub