Tobias Sippel (born 22 March 1988) is a German professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

Borussia Mönchengladbach Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e. V. Mönchengladbach, commonly known as Borussia Mönchengladbach (), Mönchengladbach () or Gladbach (; abbreviated as Borussia MG, BMG), is a professional Association football, football club based in ...

Career

Early career

Born in

Bad Dürkheim Bad Dürkheim () is a spa town in the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration, and is the seat of the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location Bad Dürkheim lies at the edge of Palatinate Forest on the German W ...

, Sippel began his football career playing for his hometown club SV 1911 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

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) at the age of 17.

Kaiserslautern

In 2006, then-

club

1. FC Kaiserslautern 1. Fußball-Club Kaiserslautern e. V., also known as 1. FCK, FCK (), FC Kaiserslautern () or colloquially Lautern (), is a German sports club based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition to football, the club also operates in severa ...

signed him to his first professional contract. Sippel spent one season playing with Kaiserslautern II in the Oberliga Südwest (then tier four of the

). After one year, he joined the first team as the third keeper behind Jürgen Macho and

Florian Fromlowitz Florian Fromlowitz (born 2 July 1986) is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is also a former Germany U21 international. Club career 1. FC Kaiserslautern Fromlowitz advanced through the youth ranks of 1. ...

. The previous season had seen Kaiserslautern relegated from the

to the

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. He ascended to the second keeper behind U-21 national keeper Fromlowitz when Macho left Kaiserslautern to play for the Greek club

AEK Athens A.E.K ( el, AEK , formally Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως; Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos, ''Athletic Union of Constantinople''), known as A.E.K, is a major Greek multi-sport club based in Nea Filadelf ...

. 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

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on the last day of the season with a clean sheet versus already promoted

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. The 2008–09 campaign started with a bang for Sippel as 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

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. He was placed on injured reserve until the beginning of 2009.

Borussia Mönchengladbach

upSippel with Gladbach in 2015 On 26 May 2015, Sippel joined

on free transfer, signing a three-year deal.

International

Sippel was called up to the senior

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squad by Joachim Löw in the build up to the

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Career statistics

Club

Honours

Club

1. FC Kaiserslautern *

: 2009–10

International

Germany *

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sippel, Tobias 1988 births Living people People from Bad Dürkheim Footballers from Rhineland-Palatinate German footballers Association football goalkeepers 1. FC Kaiserslautern players 1. FC Kaiserslautern II players Borussia Mönchengladbach players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Germany under-21 international footballers Germany youth international footballers