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Werder Bremen

Full name

Sportverein Werder Bremen
von 1899 e. V.

Nickname(s)

Werder

Founded

February 4, 1899

Ground

Weserstadion, Bremen

Capacity

43,500

Chairman

Jürgen L. Born

Manager

Thomas Schaaf

League

Bundesliga

2005-06

Bundesliga, 2nd

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Home colours

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Away colours

Werder Bremen are a German football club playing in Bremen, in the northwest German federal state of the same name. The club was founded in 1899 as FV Werder by a group of sixteen vocational high school students who had won a prize of sports equipment to set them on their way. They took their name from the seldom used regional German word for "river island", describing the riverside field they first played football in.

1 History
2 Club Culture
3 Players
- 3.1 2006/07 Playing Squad
- 3.2 Famous players
4 Famous coaches
5 Team Trivia
6 External links

[edit] History

The club enjoyed some early success, fielding competitive sides and winning a number of local championships. They were the first club to charge spectators a fee to attend their games, and to fence in their playing field. Steady growth after World War I led the club to adopt other sports and, in 1920, change their name to the current SV Werder Bremen. Football remained their primary interest, so much so that in 1922, they became the first German club to hire a professional coach. Werder remained competitive through the 30's and 40's in the country's Oberligen and Gauligen, the highest levels of play at the time.

Like other organizations throughout Germany, the club was disbanded on the order of the occupying Allied forces after World War II. They re-constituted themselves in late 1945 as Gymnastics and Sport Club Werder of 1945, which was quickly changed to Sport Club Green White of 1899. They were able to reclaim the name SV Werder in early 1946. At the time, professionals were not permitted to play in the German game, so it was normal for football players to take on other jobs, often with the club's local patron. In the case of Werder, a number of the players worked at the nearby Brinkmann tobacco factory, and so the side took on the nickname Texas 11 after one of the company's popular cigarette brands.

Between the end of the war and the formation of the Bundesliga in 1963 the club continued to do well, being recognized as the number two team in the north behind Hamburger SV. In 1961 they managed their first German Cup win. Their performance was good enough to earn them a place as a charter member of the Bundesliga, and in the league's second season Werder took the championship. They earned a second-place finish in the 1967-68, but then languished in the bottom half of the table for a dozen years. An attempt to improve their lot by signing high-priced talent earned the side the new, derisive nickname of the Millionaires and turned out to be an expensive failure. The club dropped out of the Bundesliga for the first and only time, being relegated to the 2.Bundesliga-Nord for the 1980-81 season after a 17th place finish.

Werder recovered themselves under the direction of newly hired coach Otto Rehhagel, who led the side to a string of successes: Bundesliga runners-up in 1983, 1985 and 1986, champions in 1988; appearances in the final of the German Cup in 1989 and 1990 with a win there in 1991; followed by victory in the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1992. In 1993, the club earned its third Bundesliga title and, in the following year, its third German Cup. Rehhagel left the club in June of 1995 after this impressive run for a short-lived turn as coach of Bayern München.

The impact of Rehhagel's departure was felt immediately, and a succession of coaches (Aad de Mos, Dixie Dörner, Wolfgang Sidka and Felix Magath) led the club into a critical position. In May 1999 former defender and amateur coach Thomas Schaaf took over the Bundesliga-team and succeeded in not only stopping the relegation into 2. Bundesliga but led the team to winning the German Cup, the "DFB-Pokal" only weeks later.

In the following years the team stabilised it's performance, finishing regularly in the top half of the table. In 2004, they managed to take both the Bundesliga championship and the German Cup – one of only four German sides to make the Double. Therefore, they played in the UEFA Champions League in 2004-2005. They came through to the round of the last 16 but went out because of a 10-2 aggregate defeat by Lyon.

At the end of the 2004-05 season, Werder qualified for the 2005-06 Champions League by finishing third in the Bundesliga – a remarkable feat, given a difficult injury-prone season. They have since gone on in the competition and faced Juventus in the Round of 16. The aggregate score was 4:4 but Juventus moved on to the next round thanks to the away goal rule. They also went out of the DFB-Pokal after a controversial 3-1 loss against FC St. Pauli.

On August 5, 2006 Werder captured its first Ligapokal trophy with a 2:0 win over Bayern Munchen in the final match played in Leipzig.

[edit] Club Culture

Werder Bremen has a long-running friendship with Rot-Weiss Essen, who currently play in the 2. Bundesliga. They hold a long-term enmity for Bayern Munich, and have developed a recent, but intense, feud with FC Schalke 04, whose title-hungry manager Rudi Assauer, has lured away several of Werder's top players (including Ailton, Mladen Krstajic, Frank Rost, Oliver Reck, and Fabian Ernst) with lucrative contracts.

The side prides itself on being one of the few coastal cities in the Bundesliga – currently the only other is Hamburger SV: the toot of a ship's whistle celebrates every Werder goal. This regional pride has its drawbacks, though, as opposing fans regularly taunt Werder Bremen fans as Fischköppe (fishheads), alluding to offensive smell and limited intelligence.

Being in the north of Germany, Bremen has attracted a number of Scandinavian players.

Finally, Werder Bremen is also known for its level-headed environment. In contrast to many other cities, where the local sides are often subject to intense media attention, players and trainers here are usually left in relative peace. Bremen's reputation is that of sensible, respected and financially healthy club and it is popular as one of the Bundesliga's "second-most-loved clubs" for fans who first follow their own local side.

[edit] Players

[edit] 2006/07 Playing Squad

No.		Position	Player
1	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	GK	Andreas Reinke
3	Image:Flag of Finland (bordered).svg	DF	Petri Pasanen
4	Image:Flag of Brazil.svg	DF	Naldo
5	Image:Flag of Cameroon.svg	DF	Pierre Wome
6	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	MF	Frank Baumann (captain)
7	Image:Flag of Croatia.svg	MF	Jurica Vranješ
8	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	MF	Clemens Fritz
9	Image:Flag of Egypt.svg	FW	Mohamed Zidan
10	Image:Flag of Brazil.svg	MF	Diego
11	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	FW	Miroslav Klose
14	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	FW	Aaron Hunt
15	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	DF	Patrick Owomoyela
16	Image:Flag of Denmark.svg	DF	Leon Andreasen

No.		Position	Player
17	Image:Flag of Croatia.svg	FW	Ivan Klasnić
18	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	GK	Tim Wiese
19	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	FW	Jérome Polenz
20	Image:Flag of Denmark.svg	MF	Daniel Jensen
22	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	MF	Torsten Frings (vice-captain)
23	Image:Flag of Portugal.svg	FW	Hugo Almeida
24	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	MF	Tim Borowski
26	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	DF	Florian Mohr
27	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	DF	Christian Schulz
29	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	DF	Per Mertesacker
30	Image:Flag of Denmark.svg	GK	Kasper Jensen
33	Image:Flag of Germany.svg	GK	Christian Vander

[edit] Famous players

[edit] Famous coaches

[edit] Team Trivia

Predecessor side FV Bremen was represented at the founding of the DFB (Deustcher Fussball Bund or German Football Association) at Leipzig in 1900.

Werder conceded the Bundesliga's first ever goal when scored against by Borussia Dortmund's Timo Konietzka. They did, however, go on to win the match by three goals to two.