Klaus-Dieter Fischer was bid farewell in a celebration at the Bremen City Hall with 350 invited guests looking back with Werder honorary president and departing manager on six...
Klaus-Dieter Fischer was bid farewell in a celebration at the Bremen City Hall with 350 invited guests looking back with Werder honorary president and departing manager on six...
Klaus-Dieter Fischer was bid farewell in a celebration at the Bremen City Hall with 350 invited guests looking back with Werder honorary president and departing manager on six decades with the club, nearly 45 of those years in various leadership positions for SV Werder. At the end of the year, Fischer will hand over his post as manager of SV Werder Bremen GmbH & Co KG aA, which he has held since 2004.
"I am overwhelmed and say THANK YOU for countless moving, thrilling and unforgettable moments. I have met great colleagues and people about whom you can only dream. In the end, there's only this one sentence: Thanks for 45 awesome years," said Fischer, who was also president of the Sport-Verein "Werder" von 1899 e.V. from 1999 until the member assembly in November. Wolfgang Niersbach, president of the German Football Federation (DBB) described Fischer as the "prototype for reliability", adding: "You defined an era. Values like reliability, trust and family atmosphere must have a space in a modern football, which has become more hectic. And people like you are part of that," said Niersbach in Fischer's direction.
Among the 350 invited guests were former Werder coaches Otto Rehhagel and Thomas Schaaf as well as long-time manager Klaus Allofs. Also on hand were former Werder players Aaron Hunt and Naldo, members of the double-winning team Tim Borowski, Andreas Reinke and Nelson Valdez, as well as honorary captain Horst-Dieter Höttges, German Football Association DFL CEO Andreas Rettig and the current SV Werder coaching staff. Among those guests not in the football family were education and sciences senator Eva Quante-Brandt, health senator Hermann Schulte-Sasse and Anja Stahmann, senator for social affairs, children, youth and women.
