Xavier Reckinger

Xavier Reckinger

Personal information
Born	(1983-12-20) 20 December 1983 Brussels, Belgium
Playing position	Defender
Youth career
1990–1998	Herakles
Senior career
Years	Team
1998–2002	Herakles
2002–2003	New Zealand
2003–2005	Oranje Zwart
2005–2009	Dragons
2009–2016	Braxgata
2016–2017	Herakles
National team
Years	Team	Caps
2002–2014	Belgium	326
Medal record Men's field hockey Representing Belgium EuroHockey Championship Silver medal – second place 2013 Boom Team

Xavier Reckinger (born 20 December 1983) is a Belgian international field hockey player and coach of the Germany women's national field hockey team.

He played for Braxgata in Boom and is a defender. Before he played with the KHC Dragons. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, with the national team, he finished fifth in the men's tournament. Reckinger became European vice-champion with Belgium at the 2013 European Championship on home ground in Boom.

In January 2015 Xavier Reckinger was added to the coaching staff of the Red panthers. He has coached many players at club level that have made the national teams such as Felix Denayer, Jeffrey Thijs, Barbara Nelen, Aline Fobe, Judith Vandermeiren, Emilie Sinia, who all made the Olympics too.

Reckinger is a Master in Trade Sciences (Lessius Hogeschool). He runs an own consultancy enterprise.