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Tobias Sippel

Tobias Sippel
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Sippel with Kaiserslautern in 2011
Personal information
Full name Tobias Sippel
Date of birth (1988-03-22) 22 March 1988 (age 28)
Place of birth Bad Dürkheim, West Germany
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Number 21
Youth career
1993–1998 SV 1911 Bad Dürkheim
1998–2005 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2011 1. FC Kaiserslautern II 18 (0)
2006–2015 1. FC Kaiserslautern 177 (0)
2015– Borussia Mönchengladbach 1 (0)
National team
2007 Germany U19 1 (0)
2008–2010 Germany U21 9 (0)
2010 Germany 0 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 4 August 2014.
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 19 March 2013

Tobias Sippel (born 22 March 1988 in Bad Dürkheim) is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the 1. Fußball-Bundesliga.

Sippel began his football career playing for his hometown club of SV 1911 Bad Dürkheim. While with Bad Dürkheim, he rose through the youth ranks culminating as the first goalkeeper for their 2005 entry in the Regionalliga Süd (tier four of the German football league system) at the age of 17.

In 2006, Bundesliga club 1. FC Kaiserslautern signed him to his first professional contract.

Sippel spent one season playing with Kaiserslautern II in the Oberliga Südwest (then tier four of the German football league system). After one year, he joined the first team as the third keeper behind Jürgen Macho and Florian Fromlowitz. The previous season had seen Kaiserslautern relegated from the Bundesliga to the 2. Bundesliga. He ascended to the second keeper behind U-21 national keeper Florian Fromlowitz when Jürgen Macho left Kaiserslautern to play for the Greek club AEK Athens.

Ten games into the 2007–08 season, Fromlowitz was injured thrusting Sippel into the role of starting goalkeeper. He helped Kaiserslautern avoid relegation to the 3rd Liga on the last day of the season with a clean sheet versus already promoted 1. FC Köln.


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