Werder Bremen’s new Brazilian Wesley got a taste of the weather over the coming weeks and months in Germany in his first training with the team on Friday – in steady rain and cool...
Werder Bremen’s new Brazilian Wesley got a taste of the weather over the coming weeks and months in Germany in his first training with the team on Friday – in steady rain and cool...
Werder Bremen’s new Brazilian Wesley got a taste of the weather over the coming weeks and months in Germany in his first training with the team on Friday – in steady rain and cool temperatures. All told, 21 players took part in the final training ahead of the game against Cologne on Saturday 28 August 2010. But new acquisition Wesley will not be available for the Green-Whites’ first home game of the season as there is no game permit for the 23-year-old.
"We still have not received a clearance for him from Brazil. Therefore he is not yet on the transfer list. The papers would have had to had been here by noon today. That is aggravating. But we can’t change it right now," said head coach Thomas Schaaf about the delayed debut for Wesley. There was better news about the rest of Werder’s squad as both Aaron Hunt (fever) and Hugo Almeida (thigh problem) returned to fitness and will be available to go against Cologne. "It looks good," said Schaaf about the Portuguese Almeida after Thursday’s training. Both Almeida and Hunt completed the entire Friday training without pain.
That leaves Felix Kroos (medial collateral strain), Christian Vander (pubic bone inflammation) and Naldo (knee problems) as the only players from the current Werder roster out injured. "With Naldo we had a test a couple days ago for what is possible and not. The status now is that it’s better and he doesn’t have the same pain as before. But all told it’s still not good and he is still in rehab," said Schaaf about the recovery of the Brazilian defender.
The training staff picked the following squad for the game against Cologne: Wiese, Mielitz, Boenisch, Pasanen, Fritz, Mertesacker, Prödl, Bargfrede, Borowski, Hunt, Marin, Frings, Jensen, Arnautovic, Rosenberg, Wagner, Almeida, Pizarro
