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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.
Minas Hantzidis was born on 4 July 1966 in Kettwig, near Essen, and he grew up in Germany. He developed a passion for football at a young age and, whilst still a youth player, moved from Wuppertaler SV to Bayer 04. The attacking and goal-scoring midfielder then made a name for himself in his first senior season at Bayer 04. In the reserve team, he scored goal after goal in the first half of the season, soon began training with the first team and was brought on as a substitute for the first time by manager Erich Ribbeck on 22 November 1985 in a home match against Bayern Munich.
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Sascha was born on 3 July 1986 in Leverkusen. He is the son of former Bundesliga 2 player Manfred Dum, who mainly scored goals for Union Solingen but also played for FC Saarbrücken, SC Freiburg and Wuppertaler SV. Sascha started playing for the youth teams at HSV Langenfeld at an early age. There, he caught the eye of scouts from Bayer 04 and joined the club at a young age. Following a growth spurt in the U15 team, which forced him to take a nine-month break, the left-footed player finally had the ideal conditions to establish himself in the Bayer 04 youth ranks. Even as an U17 player, he made the leap into the U19 team. Blessed with immense pace, Sascha primarily played in attacking midfield. Not the most technically gifted, but possessing a powerful shot, he found himself training with the first team in the summer of 2005 alongside Gonzalo Castro, while he was still a U19 player.
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The Werkself could not have hoped for a better start to the Bundesliga 2 North season in 1976/77. At the end of a week-long training camp in Quickborn, Schleswig-Holstein, coach Willibert Kremer’s side secured two convincing victories over BSC Brunsbüttel (5–0) and TuS Holstein Quickborn (6–0). Following this flying start, Bayer 04 faced a considerably tougher challenge on 23 July 1976 at 19:30 CEST at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium against Bundesliga side Karlsruher SC.
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On 27 June 2001, new head coach Klaus Toppmöller and his assistant Peter Hermann led the Werkself out of the changing rooms for their first training session. Joining them as they stepped onto the pitch at training ground 1 were the four new signings: Hans Jörg Butt, Yildiray Bastürk (with special permission from VfL Bochum, as Bayer 04 and VfL had not yet agreed on a transfer fee), Zoltan Sebescen and Michael Zepek, the record holder for appearances for the youth national team.
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Hans Sarpei was born on 28 June 1976 in Tema, Ghana, and came to Germany with his parents at the age of three, where he grew up in Cologne. Even before he was born, his mother and father worked in Hamburg in the import-export sector. There they met an older man who introduced them to German culture and supported them. Out of gratitude, Hans was later given his first name, although this man died before he was born. Hans comes from a sporting family; his older brother Edward and his nephews Hans Nunoo Sarpei and Kingsley Sarpei were or are also professional footballers.
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