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Playing in attacking midfield, he came to attention of a Bayer 04 youth scout and he joined the Werkself U14 squad in 1998. Then he dropped back into different positions – first in central defence in midfield for the U16 and U17 teams and then he was a central defender with the U19 and U 23 teams. His way of playing in the back four, that is doing his job in a solid and reliable fashion, attracted the attention of the first-team coaches at the Werkself. He completed his first training session with the first team at the age of 17. Coach Klaus Toppmöller included him in individual sessions with the senior squad in the 2002 season of the three runners-up finishes.
Jan-Ingwer made his debut in the Bundesliga in April 2004 in a 6-0 home win against FC Kaiserslautern. He came on for Juan on 79 minutes. A year later, in March 2005, he scored his first goal for Bayer 04 with a header from a free kick. His career didn't really take off in Leverkusen. He only played 54 Bundesliga games and scored three goals in five years under the Bayer Cross from 2003 to 2008. He did collect valuable experience in his time with the Werkself U23 team but he picked up different injuries including a torn ankle ligament that led to a lot of other injuries and constant muscular problems. He was popular with the Bayer 04 fans. They celebrated his unusual name with chants to the melody of the 80s disco hit Vamos a la Playa by the Italian band Righeira: “Jan-Ingwer Callsen-Bracker oh ohoohoho.
For the 2008/09 season the lanky central defender moved on to Borussia Mönchengladbach. He was unable to get a regular start there, due in part to an ongoing ligament injury that cost him almost the whole of the 2009/10 season. In January 2011 he started playing for FC Augsburg and he went up to the Bundesliga with the team as a key player and leader and in eight years, with a six-month loan to FC Kaiserslautern, he made 148 appearances for Augsburg.
In 2011 he got to know the sports scientist Lars Lienhard who pursued a neurocentric approach to training and the interest of Jan-Ingwer grew and he took part in online and in-person events during his time at Augsburg. When his career ended after the 2018/19 season, he received an offer from the DFB Academy in Frankfurt to set up a neuronal training centre where he developed programs and training methods for the practice with coaches and experts at the academy.
Jan-Ingwer today lives in Augsburg with his wife and his two children, he is the fitness coach for the Germany Women's team and a member of the FC Augsburg supervisory committee since December 2019.
Dear Jan-Ingwer, I wish you many happy returns on being 40. Stay fit and healthy and have a great time celebrating.
Bernd Schneider, born in Jena on 17 November 1973, spent his early years in the German Democratic Republic. He took his first steps in football at the two Jena clubs BSG Aufbau and FC Carl Zeiss, the biggest club in his hometown. He played in the second division for six years in the 90s. Bernd Schneider stood out as an accomplished dribbler with his experience from street football always evident. His nickname Schnix comes from the Thuringian dialect: ‘Schnixeln’ is a synonym for dribbling, being able to control the ball. After Jena were relegated in 1998, Schnix went in the opposite direction. Newly promoted Eintracht Frankfurt brought into the Bundesliga. He spent a year there.
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18 June 1950 saw a friendly match for FC Köln, formed from the merger of two clubs in February 1948, against the Werkself at the Stadion Am Stadtpark. The two teams had already faced each other in May 1949 as winners of the Rhine district leagues in the final for promotion to the Oberliga West. The new club from Cologne came out on top in the two games and were promoted.
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In a messed-up season in 1984/85 everybody is happy that the battle against relegation is over before the final matchday. The visitors are UEFA Cup contenders SV Waldhof Mannheim in front of a sparse 6,000 spectators at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium. The Waldhof lads under their coach Klaus Schlappner are the surprise packet of the season. In their second campaign in the Bundesliga, the team from Mannheim are fifth on 35 points (with two points for a win back then) ahead of the game in Leverkusen and in a UEFA Cup qualifying spot. Two points behind them are Bayer 05 Uerdingen and Hamburg SV.
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Tranquillo Barnetta was born in St. Gallen in Switzerland on 22 May 1985. Quillo, as he was called in the football world, has Italian roots. His great-grandfather emigrated from Italy to the east of Switzerland. Quillo was interested in football early on and he played for the St. Gallen club FC Rotmonten from the age of six. He joined his favourite club FC St. Gallen at the age of 11. There he became a youth international. He won the European Championships with his teammates in the Switzerland U17 team in 2002. The youngsters from Switzerland beat France 4-2 on penalties in the final to become U17 European champions.
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Since the establishment of the Bundesliga on 28 July 1962 for the 1963/64 season, there have been five Regional Leagues: North, Berlin, West, South-west and South. The champions of those five leagues qualified directly for promotion play-offs that were played in two groups of four teams. That included the two second-placed teams in the West and South-west Regional Leagues. The two runners-up from the North and the South played a qualifier for the eighth place in the promotion games.
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