First-team news

Bremen beat bold Leipzig 3-1

Werder Bremen notched up a 3-1 win in their final friendly game of the year against fifth division 1. FC Lok Leipzig. The crowd of 13,000 at the ‘Zentralstadion’ was treated to an entertaining game of football in which Fritz (12’), Almeida (60’) and Bargfrede (88’)...

28.08.2008 / 16:47 / First Team

FIFA president greets Werder board of management

Surrounding the contract signing with marketing agent ‘Infront’ in Zurich, the Werder board of management, Jürgen L. Born, Klaus Allofs, Klaus-Dieter Fischer and Manfred Müller...

28.08.2008 / 16:11 / First Team

November 2008: Werder fans to visit Israel

Following the visit of Israeli fans in May 2008, between 11.11 and 16.11.2008, Werder fans, together with employees of the ‘Bremer-Fan Project’, will travel to Israel. The exchange partners for the event are the educational institution for...

27.08.2008 / 21:39 / First Team

Diego: “It’s time to go for the top spot”

On Tuesday, Diego took part in his first training session with the rest of the Werder Bremen players since returning from the Olympic Games and later went to take some questions from the press.

27.08.2008 / 16:35 / First Team

Lok Leipzig: Local selection with an impressive history

An unusual date and an unusual pairing! On Wednesday, 27.08.2008 at 7pm, Werder Bremen will take on 1.FC Lokomotive Leipzig in a friendly game at the ‘Leipziger Zentralstadion’.

26.08.2008 / 18:23 / First Team

Diego back safely and back in training

Finally the waiting is over. Diego is back!! At 8:20pm on Monday evening, the midfielder touched down at Bremen Airport. On Tuesday morning the Brazilian international was back in full team training with his Werder colleagues once again.

26.08.2008 / 18:21 / First Team

Mertesacker back in Bremen after long absence

The question that has been shadowing Per Mertesacker so diligently since the beginning of the season can now finally be answered positively. Following his meniscus operation in July, ‘Merte’ is “feeling quite good now and starting...

25.08.2008 / 17:43 / First Team

DFB Cup, round 2: Werder travel to Erzgebirge Aue

Women’s World Football Champion Linda Bresonik had the task of drawing the pairings for their second round clashes in the DFB Cup, and she set Werder Bremen up with a trip to Saxony. On 23rd/24th September 2008...

25.08.2008 / 17:42 / First Team

Pizarro’s almost perfect comeback

The spectators in the Weser Stadium almost raised the roof as the stadium announcers, Arnd Zeigler and Christian Stoll announced the name of the Green-Whites new number 24: “Claudio....Pizarro, Claudio…Pizarro, Claudio…

24.08.2008 / 20:38 / First Team

Thomas Schaaf: “We cost ourselves the reward for our efforts”

Schalke coach Fred Rutten summed up the share of the points for his side in front of 42,100 spectators at the Weser Stadium: “When you take a point back to Gelsenkirchen from a game as big as Bremen against Schalke...

24.08.2008 / 20:36 / First Team

Impressive Pizarro debut but Werder share the spoils with Schalke

On the second match day of the Bundesliga season, Werder Bremen played out their second draw in succession. In an entertaining and often hard fought out match, the Green-Whites played out a 1-1 draw with FC Schalke 04.

23.08.2008 / 17:36 / First Team

Home debut cracker – anticipation and expectation

Werder versus Schalke – Green-White against Royal Blue – last season’s runner-up against last season’s third placed team – it is a game which promises to be a modern day classic. On Saturday, 23.08.2008 it all gets going again at the Weser Stadium at 3:30pm in Werder’s first home game of the new Bundesliga season.

23.08.2008 / 11:56 / First Team

Pizarro’s fundamentals, Diego’s motivation

For three days now, Claudio Pizarro has been back to the daily slog of full team training with Werder Bremen and his acclimatisation is coming along well.

22.08.2008 / 14:02 / First Team

Schaaf: “We want to pull off very special things at home”

The schedule has been set and the Werder fans can look forward to a top class home debut in the 2008/2009 Bundesliga season: “It’s a very important game,” explained Green-White midfielder Daniel Jensen.

22.08.2008 / 13:59 / First Team

DFB eleven: Fritz goes the distance - Wiese watches from the bench

The German national team, for whom Werder Bremen’s Clemens Fritz started in the right full-back position, beat Belgium 2-0(0-0)in a friendly international watched by 34,117 spectators in Nuremberg.

21.08.2008 / 15:19 / First Team

Merte’ back in Bremen at the weekend / Niemeyer with knee problem

Whilst eight of Werder Bremen’s first team players were in action all across Europe on international duty in a round of friendly games on Wednesday evening, the rest of the team continued to intensively prepare for the first home game of the Bundesliga season against FC Schalke 04.

21.08.2008 / 09:32 / First Team

Only bronze remains: The ‘Gauchos’ put an end to Diego’s dream

Werder Bremen playmaker Diego had to watch the final bitter moments of Brazil’s Olympic semi-final clash with Argentina from the bench.

20.08.2008 / 15:02 / First Team

Thomas Schaaf: “You can’t pass up a chance like that”

Thomas Schaaf is very happy about the expansion of his Werder Bremen squad. Claudio Pizarro has been released to the Bundesliga side on loan for one year from English Premier League side FC Chelsea.

20.08.2008 / 14:30 / First Team

Reunion, acclaim and six goals

As head coach Thomas Schaaf and new signing Claudio Pizarro quickly made their way from the official press conference to the training pitch, a number of on-lookers formed a spontaneous guard of honour to cheer on Werder’s new, old face.

20.08.2008 / 09:07 / First Team

Pizarro is back - and hopes are high

They certainly weren’t completely new surroundings that greeted Claudio Pizarro on his return to the Weser Stadium on Tuesday but the striker, who is on loan from FC Chelsea, noted immediately at his presentation: “A lot has changed here!”

19.08.2008 / 16:52 / First Team
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