Bundesliga Rosters 2002/03

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New in Schalke:

4 Dario RODRIGUEZ - D/M - Uruguay - 1974 - Toluca, Bella Vista and Penarol Montevideo - 0/0 - Uruguay 24

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New in Wolfsburg, probably no 10 (basically Wolfsburg wanted to leave the number unoccupied in honor of Krysztof Nowak who is sitting in a wheelchair due to a nerve disease - but he set the number free in the hope that Effenberg brings Wolfsburg ahead with this jersey):

Stefan EFFENBERG - M - Germany - 1968 - AC Florence, Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bayern Munich - 351/68 - Germany 35

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Leverkusen loans 24 Emanuel Pogatetz to FC Aarau.

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New players:

Bielefeld (probably no 2)

Torjus HANSEN - D - Norway - 1973 - Lillestrom SK - 0/0

Schalke

10 Gustavo VARELA - M - Uruguay - 1978 - Nacional Montevideo - 0/0 - Uruguay 10

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New in Mönchengladbach (no 17 ??)

Morten SKOUBO - F - Denmark - 1980 - FC Midjytland - 0/0 - Denmark 1

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Now also the last team found a main sponsor. Werder signed a two years contract with shoe producer Reno (on the jersey you'll find 'Spirit' or 'Young Spirit'). The contract is depending on success and with an average season they are earning 2.5 to 3 M.

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Kaiserslautern's chairman (= kind of GM as they didn't hire someone for this task) will be fired soon. Successor from the middle of September on is Rene C. Jäggi, currently President of FC Basel.

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Cottbus:

32 Gregg BERHALTER - D - USA - 1973 - FC Zwolle, Sparta Rotterdam, Cambuur Leuwarden, Crystal Palace - 0/0 - USA 29


Bremen:

?? Johan MICOUD - D - FRA - 1973 - Girondins Bordeaux, AS Cannes, AC Parma - 0/0 - France 15


Berlin:

?? Nando RAFAEL - F - ANG - 1984 - Ajax Amsterdam - 0/0


M'gladbach:

16 Berthil ter Avest returned to the Netherlands


GERMAN TRANSFER LIST CLOSES MONDAY, 12 PM. DFL ESTABLISHED AN EXCEPTION RULE THAT PRO'S WHO WERE UNEMPLOYED ON JULY 1ST (AND STILL ARE) CAN STILL BE SIGNED

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BREMEN

Johan Micoud gets no 10 and is of course midfielder (and not defender as I wrote).

WOLFSBURG

2 Michael MADSEN leaves to Farum BK/Denmark

HERTHA/HANNOVER

Hertha's 5 Kostas KONSTANTINIDIS is new in Hannover.

DORTMUND/HANNOVER

Dortmund's 16, Fredi BOBIC is also new in Hannover

HERTHA

Nando Rafael gets no 24.

Expect some more transfers later today.

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WOLFSBURG

16 Plassnegger and 20 Ifejiagwa were both loaned to Mannheim

MÖNCHENGLADBACH

13 Auer was sold to Mainz

HANNOVER

Three Spaniards were signed: Jose Manuel, Fernando Sanchez Cipitria and Jaime Fernando - more about it later.

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KAISERSLAUTERN:

Head coach: Eric Gerets

HANNOVER

19 JOSE MANUEL – M – Spain – 1973 – Sporting Gijon, RCD Mallorca, SD Compostela, CD Numancia, Deportivo La Coruna – 0/0

27 FERNANDO Sanchez Cipitria – F – 1971 – Real Madrid, Real Valladolid, Real Betis Balompie, Deportivo La Coruna – 0/0

28 JAIME Sanchez Fernandez – M – 1973 – Real Madrid, Racing Santander, Deportivo La Coruna – 0/0

Little tricky to find information on these three, but I hope I am right. This should be the last change for a while.

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I decided to add remarkable stats regarding games and goals after every matchday here. This is on matchday 5:

400th BL game: Andreas Möller
150th BL game: Roy Präger
100th BL game: Michael Wiesinger, Steffen Korell
50th BL game: Tomas Rosicky
1st BL game: Stephan Kling, Rade Todorovic, Peter Graulund

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Cottbus:

26 Paulo Roberto RINK - F - Germany - 1973 - Paranaense, FC Santos, Bayer Leverkusen, 1.FC Nürnberg - 104/30 - Germany 13

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Matchday 6:

100th game:
Filip Tapalovic (Bochum, present for himself: scoring the game tying score in the 89th - his 3rd BL goal)
Gerald Asamoah (Schalke, 14 goals)

50th game:
Christoph Metzelder (Dortmund, still waiting for his first goal)
Lucio (Leverkusen, 9 goals (!) as defender)

1st game:
Rafael da Silva (1860)

1st goal:
Christian Poulsen (Schalke, 6 games)
Carsten Linke (Hannover, 6 games)
Looks very much the same, but Poulsen is 21 and Linke 38.

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Matchday 7:

150th game:
Niko Kovac (Bayern, 22 goals)

100th game:
Ebbe Sand (Schalke, 48 goals)

50th game:
Owen Hargreaves (Bayern, no goal)

50th goal:
Ailton (Bremen, 112 games)

1st game:
Thosten Nehrbauer (Hannover)

1st goal:
Gustavo Varela (Schalke, 5 games)
Erhan Albayrak (Bielefeld, 9 games)

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Matchday 8:

200th game:
Rene Rydlewicz (Rostock, 20 goals)

50th goal:
Claudio Pizarro (Bayern, 93 games)

1st game:
Anton Vriesde (Bochum)
Conor Casey (Hannover)

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Matchday 9:

400th game:
Marcel Witeczek (Gladbach, 50 goals)

1st game:
Alexander Madlung (Berlin)

1st goal:
Ioannis Amanatidis (Stuttgart, 7 games)
Nebosja Krupnikovic (Hannover, 9 games)
David Jarolim (Nürnberg, 38 games)

Two players to add to the rosters (moved up from the amateur teams):

Nürnberg:
37 Pavel DAVID – F – Czech Rep – 1978 – Slavia Prague - 5/0

Berlin:
39 Alexander MADLUNG 1/0 – M – Germany – 1982 – Eintracht Braunschweig – 1/0

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Originally posted by olafgb
BAYERN MUNICH

GM: Uli Hoeneß
Head Coach: Otmar Hitzfeld
Main sponsor: T-mobile (cell phones)
Internet: www.fcbayern.de

New: Deisler, Ze Roberto, Ballack

1 Oliver KAHN – G – Germany- 1969 – Karlsruher SC – 370/0 – Germany 52
2 Willy SAGNOL – D – France – 1977 – AS St Etienne, AS Monaco – 55/1 – France 10
3 Bixente LIZARAZU – D – France – 1969 – Girondins Bordeaux, Athletic Bilbao – 100/4 – France 78
4 Samuel Osei KUFFOUR – D – Ghana – 1976 – 1. FC Nürnberg – 125/5 – Ghana 46
5 Robert KOVAC – D – Croatia – 1974 – 1. FC Nürnberg, Bayer Leverkusen – 156/1 – Croatia 21
6 Pablo THIAM – D/M – Germany – 1974 – 1. FC Köln, VfB Stuttgart – 190/13 – Guinea 15
7 Mehmet SCHOLL – M – Germany – 1970 – Karlsruher SC – 317/87 – Germany 36
8 Niko KOVAC – M – Croatia – 1971 – Hertha BSC Berlin, Bayer Leverkusen, Hamburger SV – 148/22 – Croatia 20
9 Giovane ELBER – F – Brazil – 1972 – Grasshoppers Zürich, VfB Stuttgart – 206/111 – Brazil 15
10 Ciriaco SFORZA – M – Switzerland – 1970 – Grasshoppers Zürich, Inter Milan, 1. FC K’lautern – 218/22 – Switzerland 78
11 ZE ROBERTO – M – Brazil – 1974 – Real Madrid, Flamengo, Bayer Leverkusen – 112/17 – Brazil 47
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13 Michael BALLACK – M – Germany – 1976 – Chemnitzer FC, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Bayer Leverkusen - 125/31 – Germany 28
14 Claudio PIZARRO – F – Italy – 1978 – Werder Bremen – 86/44 – Peru 25
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16 Jens JEREMIES – M – Germany – 1974 – Dynamo Dresden, 1860 Munich – 179/8 – Germany 40
17 Thorsten FINK – M – Germany – 1967 – Borussia Dortmund, SG Wattenscheid, Karlsruher SC – 356/40
18 Michael TARNAT – M – Germany – 1969 – MSV Duisburg, Karlsruher SC – 250/16 – Germany 19
19 Carsten JANCKER – F – Germany – 1974 – Hansa Rostock, 1. FC Köln, Rapid Vienna – 148/49 – Germany 29
20 Hasan SALIHAMIDZIC – M – Bosnia – 1977 – Hamburger SV – 182/35 – Bosnia 24
21 Alexander ZICKLER – F – Germany – 1974 – Dynamo Dresden – 219/50 – Germany 10
22 Bernd DREHER – G – Germany - 1966 – Bayer Leverkusen, KFC Uerdingen – 151/0
23 Owen HARGREAVES – M – England – 1981 - / - 43/0 – England 8
24 Roque SANTA CRUZ – F – Spain – 1981 – Olimpia Asuncion – 69/15 – Peru 20
25 Thomas LINKE – D – Germany – 1969 – FC Schalke 04 – 276/15 – Germany 41
26 Sebastian DEISLER – M – Germany - 1980 – Borussia Mönchengladbach, Hertha BSC Berlin – 84/13 – Germany 19
32 Markus FEULNER – M – Germany – 1982 - / - 1/0
33 Stefan WESSELS – G – Germany – 1979 - / - 3/0

any word on youth player in US that BM is interested in name wes turner

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Matchday 10:

150th game:
Marco Rehmer (Berlin, 10 goals)

100th game:
Jochen Seitz (Stuttgart, 9 goals)

50th game:
Marek Heinz (Hamburg, 5 goals)
Andreas Hinkel (Stuttgart, 0 goals)

1st goal:
Juan (Leverkusen, 7 games)
Daniel Stendel (Hannover, 17 games)

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450th BL game:
Stefan Reuter (Dortmund, 25 goals)

50th BL game:
Kostas Konstantinidis (Hannover, 3 goals)
Diego Placente (Leverkusen, 2 goals)

1st BL goal:
Kim Christensen (Hamburg, 7 games)
Michael Mifsud (Kaiserslautern, 8 games – first BL goal of a Maltese player)
Markus Daun (Bremen, 11 games)


COTTBUS terminated some contracts during this season:
2 Vilmos Sebök, 5 Markus Feldhoff, 19 Hamid Termina, 31 Brasilia.
This week there’ll be added 8 Bruno Akrapovic and 24 Vasile Miriuta