Christopher Braun (born 15 July 1991) is a German professional

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who plays as a

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for

Liga I Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

club Rapid București.

Career

Born in Hamburg, Braun played in his youth for Hamburger SV, VfL 93 Hamburg and FC St. Pauli, among others, where he also made the leap into men's football when he was accepted into the second team in March 2011. With her, he managed to get promoted to the Regionalliga Nord for the 2011–12 season, and subsequently played for the team for two seasons. He then played one season each for the league rivals SV Wilhelmshaven and VfB Oldenburg. In 2015, he left northern Germany for the first time and joined

SG Wattenscheid SG Wattenscheid 09 is a German association football club located in Wattenscheid, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club claimed an official founding date of 18 September 1909 as Ballspiel-Verein Wattenscheid out of the merger of two earlie ...

09 in the

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. After one season he moved again, this time to the Dutch second division club

Fortuna Sittard Fortuna Sittard (; ) is a professional football club from the municipality of Sittard-Geleen, Netherlands. The club currently plays its football in the 12,500 capacity Fortuna Sittard Stadion and features in the Eredivisie. The club was establi ...

. With this he managed to get promotion to the Eredivisie in the 2017–18 season, but subsequently lost his regular place and left the club without a transfer during the winter break 2018–19, without a season assignment, to the Greek first division club OFI Crete. With this he managed to win the class against AO Platanias in the relegation play-offs in May 2019. After a short absence from the club, he joined Romanian first division club FC Botoșani in October 2020, with whom he signed a two-year contract. In the summer of 2022, the reigning champion

CFR Cluj Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj, commonly known as CFR Cluj ( or ) or simply CFR, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, that competes in the Liga I. Founded as ''Kolozsvári Vasut ...

signed him, with whom he finished as the third in the table at the end of the season. After one year, he moved to league rival Rapid Bucureşti in the summer of 2023.

Honours

SG Wattenscheid 09 *

Westphalia Cup The Westphalia Cup is a German football club Cup competition open to teams from the Westphalia region of the North Rhine-Westphalia state. The competition in its existing format is relatively new compared to many other regional cups in Germany. It ...

: 2015–16 CFR Cluj *

Supercupa României The Supercupa României () is a Romanian football (soccer), football championship contested by the winners of the Liga I and the Cupa României. It is usually played at the Arena Națională in Bucharest. The competition started off in 1994 Supe ...

runner-up:

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

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Sport.de Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Braun, Christopher 1991 births Living people German sportspeople of Ghanaian descent German men's footballers Footballers from Hamburg Men's association football fullbacks SV Wilhelmshaven players FC St. Pauli players VfB Oldenburg players SG Wattenscheid 09 players Fortuna Sittard players OFI Crete F.C. players FC Botoșani players CFR Cluj players FC Rapid București players Regionalliga players Eerste Divisie players Super League Greece players Liga I players German expatriate men's footballers German expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands German expatriate sportspeople in Greece Expatriate men's footballers in Greece German expatriate sportspeople in Romania Expatriate men's footballers in Romania 21st-century German sportsmen