High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tobias Sippel (born 22 March 1988 in Bad Dürkheim) is a German football goalkeeper who plays for FC Kaiserslautern in the 2. Bundesliga.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. In 2006, Bundesliga club 1. FC Kaiserslautern signed him to his first professional contract.