The following first-team players have travelled: Lukas Hradecky, Matej Kovar, Niklas Lomb, Piero Hincapie, Jonathan Tah, Odilon Kossounou, Edmond Tapsoba, Arthur, Jeanuël Belocian, Jonas Hofmann, Robert Andrich, Florian Wirtz, Martin Terrier, Aleix Garcia, Gustavo Puerta, Granit Xhaka, Patrik Schick, Nathan Tella, Amine Adli, Victor Boniface and Adam Hlozek. Jeremie Frimpong, who played for the Netherlands in the semi-finals of Euro 2024, will join the group in the next few days.
The following youth team players are in the Black Forest for the whole training camp: Andrea Natali, Francis Onyeka (both U19s), Ben Hawighorst and Jeremiah Mensah (both U17s). U19 keeper Jesper Schlich will be at the training camp up to and including Thursday with the trio of Othniel Raterink, Francesco Buono and Montrell Culbreath (all U19s) there until Tuesday.
The German national team, featuring Werkself player Carlotta Wamser, agonisingly missed out on a place in the Women's EURO final. In a tense and dramatic semi-final, the DFB Team lost 1-0 after extra time against world champions Spain. The 21-year-old summer signing from Eintracht Frankfurt played the full 120 minutes, continuing her strong form at the tournament.
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For media representatives: As part of the preparations for the forthcoming 2025/26 season, all accreditation requests for Werkself home fixtures in all competitions (national and European) can only be made from now via the new online accreditation portal.
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This special event deeply affected all Bayer 04 representatives present: On the penultimate day of the Bayer 04 Brazil Tour, a selected delegation, led by CEO Fernando Carro and club legend Paulo Sergio, made their way to the ‘Instituto Bola pra Frente’. The former Werkself player Jorginho set up the welfare organisation 25 years ago in a deprived area of Rio de Janeiro, which was where he lived as a child. The Brazil World Cup winner of 1994 welcomed Bayer 04 as the first club ever to visit and he shared deep and, above all, emotional insights into his day-to-day work in the favelas.
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It's always a great pleasure to watch football crazy children being so happy pursuing their big passion. It was the same this time round when a small delegation led by Luiz Felipe, the son of Paulo Sergio and technical director of the recently opened Bayer 04 Football Academy São Paulo, visited the German School in Rio de Janeiro and held a training session as part of the Bayer 04 Brazil Tour. On the football pitch in front of the school building, 70 children had an afternoon full of fun and joy with a view of the world famous Christ the Redeemer.
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