First-team news

5:1 in Ottersberg – Werder pass the first test

Werder Bremen made a positive start to the first week of training in preparation for the 2008/2009 season. Kitted out in their new ‘Event’ shirts, the Green-Whites convincingly beat non-league TSV Ottersberg 5:1 (3:0) on Friday evening.

12.07.2008 / 12:30 / First Team

Rosenberg: In the shadow of Mr. Nice Guy

Seven days in Miami, fourteen days back home in Sweden. It was exactly what Werder striker Markus Rosenberg needed before he returned to his club both healthy and relaxed on Thursday.

11.07.2008 / 10:50 / First Team

Tim Wiese, ‘Jet-Granddad’ and those wonderful flying machines

Normally Tim Wiese himself is well known for gliding through the air, but for a few days that was all to change. The stars of the air on this occasion carried names such as ‘F16’, ‘Starfighter’ and ‘Airbus A 380’.

11.07.2008 / 09:54 / First Team

Bundesliga start: Werder with four Saturday dates

On Wednesday, the German Football League (DFL) announced the exact dates for the first four games in the 2008/2009 Bundesliga season. All four games involving Werder Bremen will be played on the relative Saturday at 3:30pm.

10.07.2008 / 14:44 / First Team

Pasanen and Vander carrying knocks, Harnik raring to go

The Werder players went through over two hours of training on Wednesday morning and in the afternoon there was another intensive session on the schedule. Defender Petri Pasanen had to sit out both sessions due to a slight strain.

10.07.2008 / 14:41 / First Team

Werder Bremen take their place in the ECA

Since 01.07.2008, Werder Bremen has been a member of the European Club Association (ECA), making the Green-Whites one of the foursome of clubs representing Germany on the European stage.

10.07.2008 / 10:53 / First Team

Prödl: “The important things is that I know where the stadium is”

On that fateful Monday morning back in August 2007, Sebastian Prödl really didn’t want to get out of bed. The night before he’d suffered a 3:5 defeat with Sturm Graz against Reid.

09.07.2008 / 13:51 / First Team

Harnik and Prödl join pre-season training

EURO 2008, three weeks holiday and a move from the ‘Steiermark’ to Bremen are now behind Werder’s new man Sebastian Prödl. Together with Werder’s second Austrian international, Martin Harnik, the lofty central defender began pre-season preparations along with the rest of trainer Thomas Schaaf’s men on Tuesday.

09.07.2008 / 13:49 / First Team

Game against Fortuna Köln brought forward

The friendly game between Werder Bremen and Fortuna Köln, which will be played on the East Frisian island of Norderney, has been brought forward by half an hour. The game will take place on Thursday, 17.07.2008 at 6:30pm.

08.07.2008 / 22:52 / First Team

Chairman Born at the ECA general assembly in Nyon

Chairman of the Werder Bremen board of management, Jürgen L. Born, will be in Nyon, Switzerland on Monday and Tuesday (07./08.07.2008) to partake in the European Club Association (ECA) general assembly. The independent organisation was established to represent the interests of European clubs.

08.07.2008 / 11:31 / First Team

Werder face first round DFB-Cup trip to Nordhorn

In the first round of this season’s DFB-Cup, Werder Bremen have been drawn against Lower Saxony club Eintracht Nordhorn, who finished in 15th place last season in the German fourth division.

07.07.2008 / 16:53 / First Team

Tickets on sale for Trabzonspor friendly in Bremerhaven

The sale of tickets for the pre-season preparatory friendly between Werder Bremen and the six time Turkish league champions Trabzonspor, which will take place in Bremerhaven, has gotten underway.

07.07.2008 / 16:26 / First Team

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
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