DFB Cup 2008-09
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The DFB-Pokal
2008–09 is the sixty-sixth season of the annual nationwide cup competition. It started with the first match of the First Round between 5th division side SV Niederauerbach
and 1. FC Köln
on 7 August 2008 and ended with Werder Bremen defeating Bayer Leverkusen in the final at Olympic Stadium, Berlin on 30 May 2009. The winners of DFB Cup 2008–09 will qualify to the fourth qualifying round of UEFA Europa League 2009–10.
Due to a decision made in 2006, reserve teams from professional clubs are not allowed to compete any more.
1 Finalists from the three regions with the most participating teams in their league competitions were also allowed to compete
2 ASV Bergedorf 85
qualified as regional cup finalists because winners FC St. Pauli Reserves
were not allowed to compete.
3 The football sections of Lüneburger SK
, winner of the regional cup competition, and Lüneburger SV merged to create FC Hansa Lüneburg
for the 2008–09 season.
4 SV Niederauerbach
qualified as regional cup finalists because winners 1. FC Kaiserslautern Reserves
were not allowed to compete.
The two-pot scenario was also applied for the second round, with the remaining amateur teams in the first pot and the remaining professional teams in the other pot. Once one pot was empty, the remaining pairings were drawn from the other pot with the first-drawn team for a match serving as hosts. For the remaining rounds, the draw was conducted from just one pot. Any remaining amateur team were assigned as the home team if drawn against a professional team. In every other case, the first-drawn team served as hosts.
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WERDER BREMEN:
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GK
1
Tim Wiese
DF
8
Clemens Fritz
DF
15
Sebastian Prödl
DF
4
Naldo
DF
2
Sebastian Boenisch
MF
6
Frank Baumann
MF
22
Torsten Frings
MF
11
Mesut Özil
MF
10
Diego
FW
24
Claudio Pizarro
FW
23
Hugo Almeida
Substitutes:
GK
33
Christian Vander
DF
25
Peter Niemeyer
DF
3
Petri Pasanen
MF
16
Alexandros Tziolis
FW
34
Martin Harnik
FW
14
Aaron Hunt
FW
9
Markus Rosenberg
Manager:
Thomas Schaaf
DFB-Pokal
The DFB-Pokal or DFB Cup is a German knockout football cup competition held annually. 64 teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga. It is considered the second most important national title in German football after the Bundesliga...
2008–09 is the sixty-sixth season of the annual nationwide cup competition. It started with the first match of the First Round between 5th division side SV Niederauerbach
SV Niederauerbach
SVN Zweibrücken is a German association football club from the Niederauerbach quarter of Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Palatinate.The association was founded in 1929 as SV Niederauerbach and remained an anonymous local side until winning its way to the Verbandsliga Südwest . A decade later the team...
and 1. FC Köln
1. FC Köln
1. FC Köln is a German association football club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07....
on 7 August 2008 and ended with Werder Bremen defeating Bayer Leverkusen in the final at Olympic Stadium, Berlin on 30 May 2009. The winners of DFB Cup 2008–09 will qualify to the fourth qualifying round of UEFA Europa League 2009–10.
Due to a decision made in 2006, reserve teams from professional clubs are not allowed to compete any more.
Participating clubs
The following 64 teams competed in Round 1:| Fußball-Bundesliga 2007–08 all clubs |
Second Fußball-Bundesliga 2007–08 all clubs |
Fußball-Regionalliga 2007–08 champions and runners-up from both conferences |
Winners of 21 regional cup competitions |
FC Bayern Munich FC Bayern Munich FC Bayern Munich , is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which is the most successful football club in Germany, having won 22 national titles and 15 cups.... SV Werder Bremen SV Werder Bremen SV Werder Bremen is a German sports club best known for its association football team playing in Bremen, in the northwest German federal state of the same name. The club was founded on 4 February 1899 as Fußballverein Werder by a group of sixteen vocational high school students who had won a prize... FC Schalke 04 FC Schalke 04 Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, commonly known as simply FC Schalke 04 or Schalke , is a German, association-football club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Schalke has long been one of the most popular football teams in Germany, even though major... Hamburger SV Hamburger SV Hamburger Sport-Verein, usually referred to as HSV in Germany and Hamburg in international parlance, is a German multi-sport club based in Hamburg, its largest branch being its football department... VfL Wolfsburg VfL Wolfsburg VfL Wolfsburg is a professional German association football club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, who play in the Bundesliga football competition. Wolfsburg have won the Bundesliga once in their history, in the 2008–09 season, and were DFB-Pokal runners-up in 1995. The current head coach is Felix... VfB Stuttgart VfB Stuttgart Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V., commonly known as VfB Stuttgart, is a German sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club is best known for its football team, which has participated in all but two Bundesliga seasons... Bayer 04 Leverkusen Hannover 96 Hannover 96 Hannoverscher Sportverein von 1896, commonly referred to as Hannover 96, Hannover or simply 96, is a German association football club based in the city of Hanover, Lower Saxony.-Foundation to WWII:... Eintracht Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt is a German sports club, based in Frankfurt, Hesse that is best known for its association football club.- Club origins :... Hertha BSC Karlsruher SC Karlsruher SC Karlsruher SC is a German association football club, based in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg. KSC rose out of the consolidation of a number of predecessor clubs. They currently play in the 2... VfL Bochum VfL Bochum Verein für Leibesübungen Bochum 1848 Fußballgemeinschaft, commonly referred to as simply VfL Bochum, is a German association football club based in the city of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia.-Founding to World War II:... Borussia Dortmund Borussia Dortmund Ballspielverein Borussia Dortmund, commonly BVB, are a German sports club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. Dortmund are one of the most successful clubs in German football history. Borussia Dortmund play in the Bundesliga, the top league of German football... FC Energie Cottbus Arminia Bielefeld Arminia Bielefeld DSC Arminia Bielefeld is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia offers the sports of football, field hockey, figure skating and cue sports. The club has 11,394 members and the club colours are black, white and blue... 1. FC Nuremberg F.C. Hansa Rostock MSV Duisburg MSV Duisburg MSV Duisburg is a German association football club based in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia. Nicknamed "the Zebras" for their traditional striped jerseys, the club was one of the original members of the Bundesliga when it was formed in 1963.-Early years:... |
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Rot-Weiß Ahlen Rot-Weiß Ahlen Rot Weiss Ahlen is a German football club based in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Until 2006 the club was known as LR Ahlen for its major sponsor, but underwent a name change when the sponsor withdrew its support after the team was relegated to the Regionalliga in that year.-History:The club has... Rot-Weiß Oberhausen Rot-Weiß Oberhausen Rot-Weiß Oberhausen is a German association football club in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club was formed as Oberhausener SV in December 1904 out of the merger of Emschertaler SV and the football enthusiasts of Oberhausener TV 1873... FSV Frankfurt FSV Frankfurt FSV Frankfurt is a German association football club based in the Bornheim district of Frankfurt am Main, Hesse and founded in 1899. The club plays in the shadow of larger and much more successful Eintracht Frankfurt, which has recently returned to 2nd tier football... FC Ingolstadt 04 FC Ingolstadt 04 FC Ingolstadt 04 is a German football club based in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. The club was founded in 2004 out of the merger of the football sides of two other clubs: ESV Ingolstadt and MTV Ingolstadt.-ESV Ingolstadt:... |
Holstein Kiel Holstein Kiel Holstein Kiel is a German association football and sports club based in the city of Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein. Through the 1910s and 1920s the club was a dominant side in northern Germany winning six regional titles and finishing as runners-up another six times... (Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein Cup The Schleswig-Holstein Cup is one of the 21 regional cup competitions of German football. It is a qualifying competition for the German Cup, with the winner of the competition being automatically qualified for the first round of the German Cup in the following season... ) ASV Bergedorf 85 ASV Bergedorf 85 ASV Bergedorf is a German association football club from the borough of Bergedorf in the city state of Hamburg. The footballers are part of a larger sports club that includes departments for Aikido, badminton, dance, gymnastics, handball, Karate, swimming, table tennis, tennis, and... 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A separate football club known as SV Concordia Nordhorn briefly split away in 1953, but rejoined... (Lower Saxony Lower Saxony Cup The Lower Saxony Cup is an annual football cup competition, held by the since 1956. For sponsorship reasons, the official name of the competition is Krombacher-Pokal. The Krombacher brewery, sponsor of the competition since 2010, also sponsored, at the time, the cup competitions in Thuringia,... ) FC Hansa Lüneburg FC Hansa Lüneburg FC Hansa Lüneburg is a football club from the Lower Saxon Hanseatic town of Lüneburg in North Germany. The club was founded in spring 2008 as part of the planned merger of the football divisions of the two sports clubs Lüneburger SK and Lüneburger SV.... (Lower Saxony)1, 3 TSG Neustrelitz TSG Neustrelitz TSG Neustrelitz is a German association football club from Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The football side is part of a sports club that also has departments for gymnastics and chess.-History:... 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The competition has been held since 1906, with various interruptions... ) SV Babelsberg 03 SV Babelsberg 03 SV Babelsberg 03 is a German association football club based in Potsdam-Babelsberg, on the outskirts of Berlin. The team was founded as Sport-Club Jugendkraft 1903 and again as SG Karl-Marx Babelsberg in 1948 as successor to the pre-war side SpVgg Potsdam 03.-History:Playing as SV Nowawes the team... (Brandenburg Brandenburgischer Landespokal The Brandenburgischer Landespokal , known as the Krombacher Pokal Brandenburg for sponsorship reasons, is an annual football cup competition, held by the .... ) Hallescher FC Hallescher FC Hallescher FC is a German association football club based in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt.-History:The club's roots are in the 1946 formation of SG Glaucha in Soviet-occupied East Germany around the core of Hallescher Fußball-Club Wacker which was founded in 1900... 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FC Heidenheim 1846 is a German association football club from the city of Heidenheim, Baden-Württemberg.-History:The current day club was formed in 2007 through the separation of the football section from parent association Heidenheimer Sportbund, a larger sports club that has 5,800 members in... (Württemberg Württemberg Cup The Bitburger-wfv-Pokal is one of the 21 regional cup competitions of German football. The winner of the competition gains entry to the first round of the German Cup. It was introduced in 1945. In 2011 the cup was renamed from WFV-Pokal into Bitburger-wfv-Pokal because of a new name sponsoring by... ) ASV Durlach ASV Durlach ASV Durlach is a German association football club from the borough of Durlach in the city of Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg.-History:The club was established 14 May 1902 as Fußball Club Germania Durlach. During World War II they were briefly partnered with Fußball Club Phönix Karlsruhe and played... 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(Bayern) SpVgg Ansbach 09 SpVgg Ansbach SpVgg Ansbach is a German football club from the city of Ansbach, Bavaria.The clubs greatest league success came in 2001, when it earned promotion to the tier-three Regionalliga Süd, where it lasted for only one season... (Bayern) 1 |
1 Finalists from the three regions with the most participating teams in their league competitions were also allowed to compete
2 ASV Bergedorf 85
ASV Bergedorf 85
ASV Bergedorf is a German association football club from the borough of Bergedorf in the city state of Hamburg. The footballers are part of a larger sports club that includes departments for Aikido, badminton, dance, gymnastics, handball, Karate, swimming, table tennis, tennis, and...
qualified as regional cup finalists because winners FC St. Pauli Reserves
FC St. Pauli
Fußball-Club St. Pauli is a German sports club based in the St. Pauli quarter of Hamburg. The football section is part of a larger club that also has Rugby Fußball-Club St. Pauli is a German sports club based in the St. Pauli quarter of Hamburg. The football section is part of a larger club that...
were not allowed to compete.
3 The football sections of Lüneburger SK
Lüneburger SK
Lüneburger Sport-Klub von 1901 e. V. was one of the oldest and most successful football clubs from the Lüneburg area.-History:The club was established on 1 April 1901 as Lüneburger Fußball-Club. Its name was changed to Lüneburger Sport-Klub in 1912...
, winner of the regional cup competition, and Lüneburger SV merged to create FC Hansa Lüneburg
FC Hansa Lüneburg
FC Hansa Lüneburg is a football club from the Lower Saxon Hanseatic town of Lüneburg in North Germany. The club was founded in spring 2008 as part of the planned merger of the football divisions of the two sports clubs Lüneburger SK and Lüneburger SV....
for the 2008–09 season.
4 SV Niederauerbach
SV Niederauerbach
SVN Zweibrücken is a German association football club from the Niederauerbach quarter of Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Palatinate.The association was founded in 1929 as SV Niederauerbach and remained an anonymous local side until winning its way to the Verbandsliga Südwest . A decade later the team...
qualified as regional cup finalists because winners 1. FC Kaiserslautern Reserves
1. FC Kaiserslautern
1. Fußball-Club Kaiserslautern, also known as 1. FCK, FCK or simply Kaiserslautern, is a German association football club based in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate. On 2 June 1900, Germania 1896 and FG Kaiserslautern merged to create FC 1900...
were not allowed to compete.
Draw
The draws for the different rounds were conducted as following: For the first round, the participating teams were split into two pots. The first pot contained all teams which have qualified through their regional cup competitions, the teams which were promoted from the Regionalligen and the bottom four teams of the Second Bundesliga. Every team from this pot was drawn to a team from the second pot, which contained all remaining professional teams. The teams from the first pot were set as the home team in the process.The two-pot scenario was also applied for the second round, with the remaining amateur teams in the first pot and the remaining professional teams in the other pot. Once one pot was empty, the remaining pairings were drawn from the other pot with the first-drawn team for a match serving as hosts. For the remaining rounds, the draw was conducted from just one pot. Any remaining amateur team were assigned as the home team if drawn against a professional team. In every other case, the first-drawn team served as hosts.
Round 1
The draw for the first round was held on 6 July 2008. Matches were played between 7 and 10 August 2008.Round 2
The draw for the second round was conducted on 24 August 2008. The games were played on 23 and 24 September 2008.Round 3
The draw for the third round was conducted on 5 October 2008. The games were played on 27 and 28 January 2009.Quarterfinals
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Semifinals
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Final
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| GK | 1 | René Adler René Adler René Adler is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper in the German Bundesliga for Bayer Leverkusen and for the German national team.-Career:... |
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| DF | 27 | Gonzalo Castro Gonzalo Castro Gonzalo Castro Randon is a German footballer of Spanish descent, he currently plays as a defender for Bayer Leverkusen.- Career :He made his UEFA Champions League and Bundesliga debuts at the age of 17.... |
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| DF | 5 | Manuel Friedrich Manuel Friedrich Manuel Friedrich is a German footballer who plays for Bayer 04 Leverkusen as a central defender.-Club career:... |
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| DF | 20 | Lukas Sinkiewicz Lukas Sinkiewicz Lukas Sinkiewicz is a German footballer who plays as a defender for VfL Bochum. He has represented Germany on three occasions.-Career:... |
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| DF | 24 |  Michal KadlecMichal Kadlec Michal Kadlec is a Czech footballer who plays as a left back for Bayer Leverkusen. His father Miroslav was a former Czechoslovakia footballer who played eight years in the Bundesliga in Germany, due to which Michal spent his childhood there.Kadlec started his professional career in 1. FC Slovácko... |
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| MF | 6 | Simon Rolfes Simon Rolfes Simon Rolfes is a German footballer who currently plays for Bayer Leverkusen.-Club career:... |
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| MF | 8 | Renato Augusto Renato Augusto Renato Soares de Oliveira Augusto, or simply Renato Augusto , is a Brazilian footballer. He plays as an attacking midfielder for Bayer Leverkusen.-Career:... |
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| MF | 23 |  Arturo VidalArturo Vidal Arturo Erasmo Vidal Pardo is a Chilean footballer who plays as defensive midfielder for Juventus and Chile. Although usually deployed as a defensive midfielder, Vidal is a versatile box-to-box midfielder capable of playing in a more attacking role as well.- Early life :Vidal was born in San... |
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| MF | 7 |  Tranquillo BarnettaTranquillo Barnetta Tranquillo Barnetta is a Swiss footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bayer Leverkusen and the Swiss national team. He usually plays out wide as a winger but can also play in a more withdrawn role as a defensive midfielder.... |
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| FW | 11 | Stefan Kießling Stefan Kießling Stefan Kießling is a German footballer who currently plays as a striker for Bayer Leverkusen and Germany. He has also represented the German national team six times.-1. FC Nuremberg:... |
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| FW | 9 | Patrick Helmes Patrick Helmes Patrick Helmes is a German football striker who plays for VfL Wolfsburg. Until September 2007 he was captain of 1. FC Köln.-Early career:... |
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| GK | 21 |  Gábor KirályGábor Király Gábor Ferenc Király is a Hungarian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He is currently playing for 1860 Munich, in the 2. Bundesliga... |
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| DF | 2 |  Karim HagguiKarim Haggui Karim Haggui is a Tunisian football defender. He currently plays for Hannover 96.- Early career :Haggui started his career in 1998 with AS Kasserine in his home town, eventually moving to Etoile du Sahel two years later and starting his professional career there in 2003... |
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| DF | 3 | Henrique Henrique Adriano Buss Henrique Adriano Buss , more commonly known as Henrique, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Palmeiras on loan from FC Barcelona as a central defender and for the Brazil national team, having been capped once during early 2008.... |
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| MF | 39 | Toni Kroos Toni Kroos Toni Kroos is a German international footballer who plays for Bayern Munich as an attacking midfielder. He is the older brother of Werder Bremen forward Felix Kroos.-Early career:... |
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| MF | 25 | Bernd Schneider |
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| MF | 16 | Pirmin Schwegler Pirmin Schwegler Pirmin Schwegler is a Swiss footballer who plays as a midfielder for Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga.- Career :... |
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| FW | 29 | Angelos Charisteas Angelos Charisteas Angelos Charisteas was born on 9 February 1980 in Strymoniko, Serres, but originates from Mani. He is a Greek football player who currently plays as a striker for Panetolikos F.C.... |
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Tim WieseTim Wiese
Tim Wiese is a German goalkeeper who currently plays for Werder Bremen and the German national team. He joined Werder Bremen in 2005 from Kaiserslautern in the Bundesliga.-Fortuna Köln:...
Clemens FritzClemens Fritz
Clemens Fritz is a German footballer who plays as a right back for Werder Bremen. He is well known for his pace, passing and team effort.-Club career:...
Sebastian PrödlSebastian Prödl
Sebastian Prödl is an Austrian footballer who plays for Werder Bremen and the Austrian national team.-Club career:Aged 19, he began his professional career playing for Sturm Graz in the Austrian Bundesliga in 2006. In July 2008 he moved to Germany to play for Werder Bremen.-International career:In...
Naldo Sebastian BoenischSebastian Boenisch
Sebastian Boenisch is a Polish-German football player who plays for the Polish National Team and for Werder Bremen at club level, mainly as a left back.-Career:...
Frank Baumann Torsten FringsTorsten Frings
Torsten Frings is a German football midfielder who plays for Toronto FC in Major League Soccer and is known for his vision and an explosive, powerful shot.-Early career:...
Mesut ÖzilMesut Özil
Mesut Özil is a footballer who plays for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and for the German national team. Özil has been a youth national team member since 2006, and a member of the German national team since 2009. He gained international attention during the 2010 FIFA World Cup and was nominated...
DiegoDiego Ribas da Cunha
Diego Ribas da Cunha , commonly known as just Diego, is an international Brazilian footballer who plays for Atlético Madrid on loan from VfL Wolfsburg, as an attacking midfielder.-Santos:...
Claudio PizarroClaudio Pizarro
Claudio Miguel Pizarro Bosio is a Peruvian football forward. Pizarro plays for Werder Bremen of the German Bundesliga...
Hugo AlmeidaHugo Almeida
Hugo Miguel Pereira de Almeida is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Beşiktaş J.K. in Turkey, as a centre forward.After failing to establish himself at F.C...
Christian VanderChristian Vander (footballer)
Christian Vander is a German football goalkeeper currently playing for SV Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga. He is the second-choice goalkeeper at the club behind Tim Wiese after the departure of veteran Andreas Reinke. Before joining Bremen in August 2005, he played for VfL Bochum and KFC Uerdingen...
Peter NiemeyerPeter Niemeyer
Peter Niemeyer is a German professional footballer who plays for Hertha BSC on loan from SV Werder Bremen.Mainly a defensive midfielder, he can also operate as a central defender.-Club career:...
Petri Pasanen Alexandros TziolisAlexandros Tziolis
Alexandros Tziolis is a Greek international footballer who plays for Racing de Santander.-Early club career:...
Martin HarnikMartin Harnik
Martin Harnik is a German-born Austrian footballer. He currently plays for VfB Stuttgart.-Club career:Born in Hamburg to a German mother and an Austrian father , he started playing football in 1992 at SC Vier- und Marschlande...
Aaron HuntAaron Hunt
Aaron Hunt is a German footballer who plays for Werder Bremen.-Club career:After spending his first season at Werder Bremen in the reserves, in the year the side achieved the double, Hunt made his first division debut on 18 September 2004, as a substitute against Hannover 96...
Markus RosenbergMarkus Rosenberg
Nils Markus Rosenberg , born 27 September 1982 in Malmö) is a Swedish footballer currently playing for German side Werder Bremen. As of 11 February 2009, Rosenberg, who is nicknamed "Sillen" , has played 30 games and scored six times for the Swedish national team.-Early career:Rosenberg started his...
Thomas SchaafThomas Schaaf
Thomas Schaaf is a former German football defender and current manager of Werder Bremen. A true one-club man, he spent his entire playing career, and so far coaching career, with Werder Bremen...
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