Tobias Sippel
Personal information
Date of birth	22 March 1988 (1988-03-22) (age 21)
Place of birth	Bad Dürkheim, West Germany
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Kaiserslautern
Number	1
Youth career
1993–1998 1998–2005	SV 1911 Bad Dürkheim Kaiserslautern
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2006–2007 2007–	Kaiserslautern II Kaiserslautern	08 (0) 53 (0)
National team2
2008–	Germany U-21	08 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 01:23, 25 November 2009 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of October 28, 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Tobias Sippel (born 22 March 1988 in Bad Dürkheim) is a German football goalkeeper who plays for FC Kaiserslautern in the 2. Bundesliga.

Contents 1 Youth career 2 FC Kaiserslautern 3 Honours 4 External links

[edit] Youth career

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 4 of the German football league system) at the age of 17.

[edit] FC Kaiserslautern

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

Sippel spent one season playing with FC Kaiserslautern II in the Oberliga Südwest (currently Tier 5 of the German football league system, but Tier 4 when Sippel played). After one year, he joined the first team as the third keeper behind Jürgen Macho and Florian Fromlowitz. The previous season had seen FC 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 FC Kaiserslautern avoid relegation to the 3rd Liga on the last day of the season with a clean sheet versus already promoted FC Köln.

The 2008–09 campaign started with a bang for Sippel as FC Kaiserslautern shot to the top of the league table anchored by their number one goalkeeper, however nine games into the season, Sippel broke his arm on a freak play during a 2-1 win versus Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. He is currently on injured reserve until the beginning of 2009.

[edit] Honours

• UEFA Under-21 Championship: 2009

[edit] External links

• Career stats at Fussballdaten.de (German)
• Profile at Transfermarkt.de (German)

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