Good to know | Christoph Baumgartner

Welcome to Leipzig, “Baumi”! 

The Austrian attacking midfielder has signed for RBL ahead of the new season. Find out about his footballing idols, his favourite food in Austria and what job Christoph would have done if he wasn’t a footballer.
 

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Good to know

• Christoph is purely know as ‘Baumi’ in the team and in his friendship group. 
   
• Off the pitch, Baumi is a proper family man, who not only likes to cook, but also cooks well. Having grown up in the countryside, he is also very at home in nature.
   
• His older brother Dominik is also a professional footballer and plays for Wolfsberger AC in the Austrian Bundesliga.
   
• His girlfriend Sandy was a professional footballer andwon the Austrian Championship in 2014 with USV Neulengenbach and in 2018 with SKN St. Pölten. In the 2017/18 season, she played two Champions League games. At RBL, he will finally have the opportunity to equal this.
   

Ideal job? Teacher

• Christoph Baumgartner has one dog (a pomeranian) called Cody.
   
• His dream job outside of football? Teacher – like his mother. He would most liked to have taught PE, maths and English.
   

Celebration somersault

• He counts his brother Dominik as well as David Alaba of Real Madrid, who he befriended while playing for the Austria national team, among his role models.
   
• He has already provided two assists with a backheel.  
   
• With his winning goal to make it 1-0 against Ukraine on 21st June 2021 in Bucharest, Baumgartner secured Austria’s passage into the round of 16 of the EUROs for the first time in their history.
   
• Christoph Baumgartner celebrates some of his goals with a somersault. He perfected this on his trampoline at home in the garden as a child. 
   

Wiener Schnitzel and Kaiserschmarrn

• Christoph is a coffee lover and likes to drink two or three cups of coffee before a game. To wind down and regenerate after a game the 23-year-old likes to go to the sauna.
   
• His favourite food is Wiener Schnitzel and Kaiserschmarrn cooked by his grandmother. His favourite typical German food is Maultaschen.
   
• In 2022, he set up the ‘Christoph Baumgartner Training School’ in Uganda, which gives the opportunity to mainly young women to get an education.