Since 2003, the Italian sports magazine Tuttosport has presented the annual Golden Boy award for the best young player. This year's list of nominees includes players born in 2005 or younger - including Bayer 04 newcomer Eliesse Ben Seghir. Ben Seghir is joined by only one other Bundesliga player in Jobe Bellingham of Borussia Dortmund (via the wild card). In previous years, former Bayer 04 players Florian Wirtz, Odilon Kossounou, Piero Hincapie and Paulinho have been on the shortlist.
The top 100 young players are compiled using an algorithm developed by Football Benchmark and Golden Boy. The decisive factors here are performances at club level and for the respective national team. The top 20 and five wildcard players have now been selected from the 100 nominees. From these nominees, 50 international journalists will select the Golden Boy.
Werkself fans can vote for Ben Seghir in the Golden Boy Web award, an online public vote that includes the full list of 100 nominees: Click HERE to cast your vote.
The German Football League (DFL) has announced the three candidates for Bundesliga ‘Rookie of the Month’ for February. Among the candidates is Werkself player Jarell Quansah. Fans of Bayer 04 can vote for their favourite on the Bundesliga app from now until Thursday, 5 March (23:59 CET).
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On a day that celebrated 50 years of official Bayer 04 fan clubs with festivities on the pitch during the match against FSV Mainz 05 on Saturday, New York-based Werkself Warriors were proudly represented on the field by co-founder Alex Kramm.
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The Werkself conceded a goal at home for the first time since the beginning of January 67 minutes into the game against FSV Mainz 05 on Saturday. Jarell Quansah levelled late on for the final score of 1-1 to secure a point and avoid a first home defeat in six games. Bayer 04 were very critical of their performance after the game. The Werkself review.
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Rüdiger Vollborn has been at the club for 40 years, he holds the record number of Bundesliga appearances for the club (401) and is the only Bayer 04 player to have won both the UEFA Cup (1988) and the DFB Pokal (1993). And the Berliner stayed with the Werkself after ending his impressive playing career as he worked as a goalkeeping coach for the following nine years. Vollborn now works under the Bayer Cross as a fan liaison officer and club archivist. Since February 2021, the personalised Black and Red lexicon takes Werkself fans under the heading of 'Rudi recounts...' on a brief trip through the history of Bayer 04 every month…
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