Perry Bräutigam (born 28 March 1963) is a German

Association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

coach and a former player who works as goalkeeper coach for

RB Leipzig RasenBallsport Leipzig e.V. (), commonly known as RB Leipzig, and colloquially referred to as Red Bull Leipzig, is a German professional football club based in Leipzig, Saxony. The club was founded in 2009 by the initiative of the company Red Bu ...

Playing career

Bräutigam was born in

Altenburg Altenburg () is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located south of Leipzig, west of Dresden and east of Erfurt. It is the capital of the Altenburger Land district and part of a polycentric old-industrial textile and metal production region betw ...

. A

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...

, he played over 450 matches at the first and second level of the East and unified German football pyramid. He also won three caps for the East Germany national team.

Coaching career

Immediately after his playing career ended, Bräutigam started working as goalkeeper coach for

F.C. Hansa Rostock FC Hansa Rostock () is a German association football club based in the city of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The club is also called as "the cog" because of its club crest. They have emerged as one of the most successful clubs from the forme ...

. When his contract ended in 2009, he moved to the newly formed

, also as goalkeeper coach.

Honours

FDGB-Pokal The FDGB-Pokal (Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Pokal or Free German Trade Union Federation Cup) was an elimination football tournament held annually in East Germany. It was the second most important national title in East German football aft ...

: runner-up 1987–88

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* * * 1963 births Living people German men's footballers East German men's footballers East Germany men's international footballers Men's association football goalkeepers FC Carl Zeiss Jena players 1. FC Nürnberg players FC Hansa Rostock players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players DDR-Oberliga players People from Altenburg Footballers from Thuringia {{Germany-footy-goalkeeper-stub