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Training with a mini-transmitter: Schaaf’s first impressions

Once again, at Sunday’s training session, technology came to the aide of Thomas Schaaf and his trainer team, for the first time this year, which allows them to obtain a more intensive evaluation of the player’s performances in training.

06.07.2008 / 19:45 / First Team

An intensive weekends training draws to a close

The first weekend of pre-season preparations has ended now for the Werder Bremen players. Trainer Thomas Schaaf summoned his troops together, which again included some of the talented youngsters from the U23 reserve side, on Sunday morning at the training pitch.

06.07.2008 / 17:03 / First Team

First training session: New ball, Hunt fit

Whilst the bulk of the Werder players were still enjoying their summer holidays at the end of June, German U21 international Aaron Hunt was already putting in some extra shifts in preparation for the start of pre-season training on Thursday, 03.07.2008.

05.07.2008 / 11:40 / First Team

Champions League ticket packet available from Monday

As from tomorrow, all those interested in Werder Bremen will have the chance to secure their Champions League ticket packet. On Monday, 07.07.2008, general sales will begin, which will this year run exclusively online through WERDER.DE.

05.07.2008 / 11:39 / First Team

Friendly at brand new AFG Arena in St. Gallen

On the first day of preparations for the 2008/2009 season, Werder’s ‘Summer Travel Plan’ has been altered to once again and a further stadium has been added to the list. General manager Klaus Allofs confirmed that on Monday, 28.07.2008 at 8pm, the Green-Whites will play a friendly against relegated Swiss first division side FC St. Gallen.

05.07.2008 / 11:37 / First Team

The fitness test was just for starters: “The first ten days always hurt”

As the 16 Werder players, in completely new training kits, left the changing rooms of the Weser Stadium to being pre-season training on Thursday, the heavens opened and the rain poured heavily down.

04.07.2008 / 09:08 / First Team

Klaus Allofs: “We don’t buy players just to look at them”

Klaus Allofs is planning on staying true to Werder’s internal policies. At the press conference in connection with the Green-Whites season start, Werder’s general manager explained that he will be, as he has in the past, approaching the transfer market calmly, sensibly and in calculated fashion.

04.07.2008 / 09:07 / First Team

Schaaf: “We want to continue playing attractive football”

It’s started again! On Wednesday afternoon, Werder Bremen began their preparations ahead of the 2008/2009 season. Werder.de met up with trainer Thomas Schaaf for a chat.

04.07.2008 / 09:04 / First Team

New WERDER.TV extend invitation to home games

It’s been up and running since Tuesday, 01.07.2008: WERDER.TV has opened its new programme. The target for the future: ‘Even better, even faster!’ The most notable new aspect is that users can now access WERDER.TV on its very own platform, and no longer using the partner-page Maxdome.

03.07.2008 / 16:06 / First Team

Pre-season training: Wiese fit, Baumann eager

In just a few hours time, trainer Thomas Schaaf will call his troops together for the first time in preparation for the 2008/2009 season. The whole process will begin with a fitness test at 3:30pm on pitch 11 of the Weser Stadium training complex: “Finally back to playing football, I’m really itching to go. It can start now,” said an enthusiastic Tim Wiese.

03.07.2008 / 08:20 / First Team

Werder Bremen greet the 100,000th WUSEUM visitor

99.996, 99.997, 99.998, 99.999, 100.000 - Werder Bremen surprised the 100,000th visitor to the WUSEUM on Tuesday morning. At 11:06am, Werder director Klaus-Dieter Fischer made a point of carefully counting a school class of mentally handicapped children from the Grolland School as they entered the WUSEUM, and he picked out Emre Uludasdemir as the lucky, honorary guest.

02.07.2008 / 12:20 / First Team

WERDER.TV: Green-Whites sign Huseinovic

On the first day of preparation for the 2008/2009 season, Werder Bremen made their next new signing. General manager Klaus Allofs announced exclusively to WERDER.TV, that the Champions League participants had signed a four year deal, until 30.06.2012, with Said Huseinovic.

02.07.2008 / 12:19 / First Team

Bundesliga: Werder start in Bielefeld and then host S04

At a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, the German Football League (DFL) officially announced the Bundesliga game plan for the 2008/2009 season. Werder Bremen will open their campaign on 16/17.08.2008 with a trip to Arminia Bielefeld.

01.07.2008 / 18:30 / First Team

Interview: WERDER.TV extend home game invitation

On Tuesday, 01.07.2008 the time will have come for WERDER.TV to begin its new programme. The target for the future - even quicker, even better! Just how WERDER.TV intends to put their ambitious plans into action was explained by media director Tino Polster in an interview with WERDER.TV.

01.07.2008 / 13:48 / First Team

‘Merte’ & Co. blown away by Berlin reception

It didn’t quite go according to plan! The German national team, including the four Werder Bremen representatives Torsten Frings, Per Mertesacker, Clemens Fritz and Tim Borowski, landed punctually at Berlin’s Tegel airport on Monday at 1pm, but there was one very special piece of silverware missing from their luggage - the European Championship trophy, which the Spanish deservedly secured on Sunday...

01.07.2008 / 13:45 / First Team

Werder sign defender Niklas Andersen

Werder Bremen have signed Niklas Andersen from third division Rot-Weiss Essen. The 19 year old defender signed a four year deal to keep him at the club until 30.06.2012. The defender will join up with his new team mates for the beginning of pre-season training this Thursday.

30.06.2008 / 16:59 / First Team

The dream is over - German lose final 1-0

For the German national team, their dreams of a fourth European championship title were dashed. In Sunday night’s EURO 2008 final in Vienna, trainer Joachim Löw’s men were beaten 1:0 (1:0) by Spain. Werder Bremen’s Per Mertesacker and Torsten Frings were once again in the starting eleven which, on this occasion, failed to display the familiar effective style of football that had become their...

30.06.2008 / 16:56 / First Team

Clemens Fritz exclusive: “We can pull it off”

The ‘Berg (mountain) -tour 2008’ (the name given to the German national sides Alpen mission), is coming to an end, and the summit is in sight. On Sunday, trainer Joachim Löw’s German side will take on Spain in the European Championship final. Werder Bremen’s Clemens Fritz is ready for action.

28.06.2008 / 17:31 / First Team

EURO 2008: Frings fired up for Vienna final

Throughout the second half of the semi-final, Torsten Frings battled, tackled and directed the play – and all that just nine days after breaking a rib in the final group game against Austria. But did he come through the first serious test since picking up the injury unscathed and could he take the enormous strain on his damaged rib without any problems?

28.06.2008 / 17:28 / First Team

Training camp in Schruns will now begin on 23.07.2008

The beginning of the second training camp in Schruns, Austria, which is a major part of Werder Bremen’s pre-season summer preparations, has been delayed by one day. The stay in Austria will now begin on Wednesday, 23.07.2008 and finish, accordingly, a day later than originally planned, on Wednesday, 30.07.2008.

27.06.2008 / 12:13 / First Team
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