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Robert Bauer strengthens Werder

SV Werder Bremen sporting director Frank Baumann confirmed on Tuesday afternoon that the club and FC Ingolstadt have agreed on a move for Robert Bauer. The 21-year-old was with the Germany Olympic team for the final in Rio and took home a silver medal. Bauer completed a physical in Bremen on Tuesday and signed a contract with the club afterwards. The clubs have decided not to disclose further...

24.08.2016 / 12:02 / First Team

Robert Bauer strengthens Werder

SV Werder Bremen sporting director Frank Baumann confirmed on Tuesday afternoon that the club and FC Ingolstadt have agreed on a move for Robert Bauer. The 21-year-old was with the Germany Olympic team for the final in Rio and took home a silver medal. Bauer completed a physical in Bremen on Tuesday and signed a contract with the club afterwards. The clubs have decided not to disclose further...

23.08.2016 / 18:04 / First Team

Werder face BSV Kickers Emden

During the upcoming international break, SV Werder Bremen will play in a friendly match before the first weekend of September. The Green-Whites play away at Landesliga side BSV Kickers Emden on the evening of Friday 2nd September. The match kicks off at 19:00 CEST at the Ostfrieslandstadion.

23.08.2016 / 17:23 / First Team

Fin Bartels banned for two DFB Cup games

Werder midfielder Fin Bartels has been given a two game cup ban by the DFB. Bartels was sent off for violent conduct in the 82nd minute of the match in Lotte, following a confrontation with an opposition player who had behaved aggressively towards him beforehand.

22.08.2016 / 17:27 / First Team

Words aren't enough

There are easier tasks than explaining what went wrong following elimination from the DFB Cup at the hands of a third division side. Viktor Skripnik would have most definitely wanted to speak about a successful start to the season with the journalists present on Monday morning, instead, he was forced to pick apart his team’s performance from the 2-1 loss to the underdogs from Lotte: “We put in an...

22.08.2016 / 16:22 / First Team

Aron playing catch-up

+++ Aron playing catch-up: He was out of team training for almost a year, but he has been back for two and a half weeks now and is fighting for a place in the team. Werder‘s sporting director, Frank Baumann, is optimistic that Aron Jóhannsson will soon be looking for goals in the Bundesliga, and not just on the training pitch. "It is looking good. There are no more problems to report", said...

22.08.2016 / 13:04 / Team Talk

Max Kruse ruled out with ligament injury

Bad news for SV Werder Bremen. Max Kruse suffered an injury to the lateral ligament of his left knee on Sunday in the DFB Cup match against Sportfreunde Lotte. The 28-year-old will not be available for the foreseeable future. 

22.08.2016 / 12:53 / First Team

Junuzovic: “A huge wake-up call”

All Green-Whites imagined it would go differently. You could see the disappointment, anger and above all the discontentment with their own performances on the Werder players’ faces following the 2-1 defeat to in Lotte in the first round of the DFB Cup. “We all have to take a look at ourselves, no one is exempt. There are many valid criticisms of the team. ^We didn’t implement our game well, were...

21.08.2016 / 21:17 / First Team

DFB Cup exit in Lotte

Werder Bremen lost their DFB Cup first round tie against Sportfreunde Lotte 2-1 on Sunday. André Dej netted a 54th-minute winner, after Zlatko Junuzovic had cancelled out Matthias Rahn’s early opener before half time. Werder, who were reduced to ten men in the closing stages, are now out of the DFB Cup. 

21.08.2016 / 19:10 / First Team

Full of anticipation, but wary

It’s been about 14 weeks since the heart-stopping season finale against Frankfurt. During the break, you have time to process these events, prepare yourself for the new season and above all begin to anticipate the challenges up ahead. Werder begin their new season on Sunday with their first-round DFB Cup tie in Lotte. “I’m excited to finally get going again,” said sporting director Frank Baumann...

19.08.2016 / 17:05 / First Team

"We can't afford to be careless"

It’s the start of the new season! After long, intensive preparations at three different training camps, the new season finally begins on Sunday. Werder will travel to Lotte in Westphalia for the first round of the DFB Cup where the team will want to celebrate their first victory of the new season against newly-promoted third-division side Lotte.  Despite the difference between the two teams,...

19.08.2016 / 12:22 / preliminary report

Guwara: "I've hit my stride"

There is a lot of competition for the positions on Werder’s left wing. Santiago Garcia played 31 matches last season, while Janek Sternberg deputized if he wasn’t available. There are now other options in Ulisses Garcia and returnee Luca Caldirola, who is also comfortable on the left. In addition, Leon Guwara signed his first professional contract with the Green-Whites in April. It wasn’t clear...

18.08.2016 / 16:56 / interview

Thomas Delaney to move to Werder in the winter

Denmark international Thomas Delaney will move to SV Werder on 1st January, 2017. The 24-year-old midfielder will come to the Weser from FC Copenhagen. This was announced on Wednesday afternoon by Frank Baumann, sporting director. The fees involved are being kept under wraps.

17.08.2016 / 15:50 / First Team

"We want to build a better structure"

It has been just three months since Frank Baumann began his role as Werder sporting director. The 40-year old has had a very busy introduction to his time with the club, in no small part thanks to starting in the first week of the transfer window. In that time he has already overseen ten new arrivals, two returns from loan and thirteen departures. In our interview he discussed squad building, his...

17.08.2016 / 14:54 / interview

The final week before the new campaign

The countdown has begun! The Werder boys only have one week of training left before their first match of the new season, and it’s a double session! On Tuesday morning, Werder coach Viktor Skripnik had his players on the training pitch to prepare the team for their upcoming DFB Cup game against Sportfreunde Lotte (Sunday, 21st August at 15:30 CEST). In the afternoon they also trained publically....

16.08.2016 / 13:18 / First Team

Honours, discussions and anticipation

+++ Player of the season: Fully deserved: Werder fans have voted Claudio Pizarro as their Player of the Season. After netting two goals in the first half of the campaign, Pizarro found his groove in the second half of the season and delivered one goal after the other. In Leverkusen he became the oldest player ever to score a hat-trick and against Mainz Pizarro matched the all-time scoring...

14.08.2016 / 18:34 / Team Talk

"Good display against robust team"

SV Werder Bremen ended their pre-season with a 1-0 friendly match victory over fellow Bundesliga side FC Ingolstadt. Manager Viktor Skripnik was pleased with his teams' display: "It was good that we recorded a 1-0 win and kept a clean sheet against a Bundesliga outfit."

14.08.2016 / 15:24 / First Team

Bartels nets only goal of the day

[] SV Werder Bremen beat fellow Bundesliga side FC Ingolstadt 1-0 on Saturday afternoon thanks to a strike from Fin Bartels.

13.08.2016 / 18:56 / Match Report

Pizarro to sit out next few days

Claudio Pizarro will miss the final stages of pre-season. The striker has picked up a muscular problem in his left thigh and isn’t able to train for the next 7-10 days.

13.08.2016 / 15:09 / First Team

Kleinheisler joins SVD on loan

László Kleinheisler has joined Darmstadt 98 on loan. The 22-year-old will spend the 2016/17 season with the Hesse side. The news was announced by both clubs on Saturday.

13.08.2016 / 14:21 / First Team
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