Christopher Braun
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 15 July 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Hamburg, Germany | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Right-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Rapid București | ||
| Number | 47 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2008 | Hamburger SV | ||
| 2008 | VfL 93 Hamburg | ||
| 2009–2010 | FC St. Pauli | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2010–2013 | FC St. Pauli II | 48 | (1) |
| 2013–2014 | SV Wilhelmshaven | 33 | (2) |
| 2014–2015 | VfB Oldenburg | 30 | (1) |
| 2015–2016 | SG Wattenscheid 09 | 34 | (1) |
| 2016–2018 | Fortuna Sittard | 63 | (1) |
| 2019–2020 | OFI | 41 | (0) |
| 2020–2022 | Botoșani | 62 | (1) |
| 2022–2023 | CFR Cluj | 30 | (1) |
| 2023– | Rapid București | 47 | (2) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 November 2024 | |||
Christopher Braun (born 15 July 1991) is a German professional footballer who plays as a right back for Liga I club Rapid București.
Career
[edit]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 09 in the Regionalliga West. After one season he moved again, this time to the Dutch second division club Fortuna Sittard. 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.[1] 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.[2] In the summer of 2022, the reigning champion CFR Cluj 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 Bucharest in the summer of 2023.[3]
Honours
[edit]SG Wattenscheid 09
CFR Cluj
- Supercupa României runner-up: 2022
References
[edit]- ^ "Braun verruilt Fortuna voor OFI Kreta - Fortuna Online". 9 December 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
- ^ "Trei dintr-o lovitură! FC Botoșani și-a prezentat ultimele transferuri". www.digisport.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 25 June 2024.
- ^ "Primul transfer din această vară efectuat pe ruta CFR Cluj - Rapid! Christopher Braun a fost prezentat" (in Romanian). eurosport.ro. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
External links
[edit]- Christopher Braun at Soccerway
- Sport.de Profile
- 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