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Oliver Baumann

Oliver Baumann
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Baumann with SC Freiburg in 2013
Personal information
Full name Oliver Baumann
Date of birth (1990-06-02) 2 June 1990 (age 26)
Place of birth Breisach, West Germany
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1 12 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
1899 Hoffenheim
Number 1
Youth career
FC Bad Krozingen
2002–2009 SC Freiburg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2010 SC Freiburg II 22 (0)
2010–2014 SC Freiburg 131 (0)
2014– 1899 Hoffenheim 83 (0)
National team
2008 Germany U18 1 (0)
2008–2009 Germany U19 7 (0)
2010 Germany U20 2 (0)
2010–2013 Germany U21 10 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17 January 2017.

Oliver Baumann (born 2 June 1990) is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for 1899 Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga.

Oliver Baumann joined SC Freiburg's youth team in 2002, since then he has gone on to make 104 Bundesliga appearances for the club. He made his youth team debut for Freiburg on 2 September 2007 at the age of 19. Two years later he made his first appearance for Freiburg's second string side SC Freiburg ll in the Regionalliga Süd against Stuttgarter Kickers, keeping a clean sheet in a 0–0 draw. He went on to make another 21 appearances for Freiburg ll.

On the last day of the 2009–10 Bundesliga season, Baumann made his senior team debut in a 3–1 home victory over Borussia Dortmund. He became the SC Freiburg first-choice goalkeeper from the 2010–11 season onwards, where he made 30 appearances in the Bundesliga. In June 2011, he extended his contract until 2015. In the following two seasons, 2011–12 and 2012–13, Baumann made a total of 73 appearances for the Freiburg first-team, 67 of those in the league.

In the 2013–14 season he continued to be the mainstay of the Freiburg line-up, starting all of the clubs first six Bundesliga fixtures, as well as starting Freiburg's opening UEFA Europa League and DFB-Pokal matches.In a match against Hamburg SV, Baumann made three crucial errors that led to a 3–0 loss to Hamburger SV. Despite his poor performance, he started the following game against Nürnberg and kept a clean sheet to help Freiburg achieve its first win of the season. On 24 September 2013, Baumann signed a new contract at the club.


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