Why Frank Baumann sees two turning points at Werder Bremen

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Eleven years ago, the number of Champions League places in the Bundesliga was still limited to three. And one of them belonged to Werder Bremen, who qualified about the play-offs in Genoa for the group stage - for the last time.

For Frank Baumann, today managing director sports, that was the first one as he says in the interview with the Hamburger Abendblatt , TurningPoint on the way down. That we (the CL, d. Red.) Then did not reach them, but had a squad together with which it was necessary for financial aspects to reach them.

Werder spent the next few years in the lower midfield of the Bundesliga. One has players with great contracts that are harder even if they are not so performing. Then you get into a downward spiral. Which knows the northdriver from Hamburg too well. It takes you until you start again. We had another upswing until 2019.

The summer of 2019 was a turning point to the negative.

Baumann

That was the summer, in which it suddenly went downhill. Summer 2019 was a turning point to the negative. We had a good season with 53 points and the pokal half-finals, almost moved into the Europa League. We wanted to go with the club's next step. We had lost Max Kruse and still lost great ambitions. We wanted to extend the performance even further, bring it up further and then have a little exaggerated, which has been exaggerated in a serious injury manure. Since we had athletic and economically long to nibble.

Two years and a relegation later, Bremen rose from the Bundesliga. And now meets in the derby on the former large rivals, who has been at the lower house for a few years.

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