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.
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
Cottbus: 26 Paulo Roberto RINK - F - Germany - 1973 - Paranaense, FC Santos, Bayer Leverkusen, 1.FC Nürnberg - 104/30 - Germany 13
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.
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)
Matchday 8: 200th game: Rene Rydlewicz (Rostock, 20 goals) 50th goal: Claudio Pizarro (Bayern, 93 games) 1st game: Anton Vriesde (Bochum) Conor Casey (Hannover)
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
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)
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
Matchday 12: 150th BL Game: Krisztian Lisztes (Bremen, 17 goals) 50th BL Game: Aliaksandr Hleb (Stuttgart, 3 goals) 1st BL Game: Bernd Rauw (Bielefeld) Marcel Rozgonyi (Cottbus) 1st BL Goal: Daniel Felgenhauer (Mönchengladbach, 13 games)
100th BL Game: Danny Schwarz (1860, 4 goals) 50th BL Game: Sasa Ciric (Nürnberg, 22 goals) 50th BL Goal: Sergej Barbarez (Hamburg, 155 games) 1st BL Game: Daniel Embers (Mönchengladbach) Abdul Iyodo (Schalke) Leandro (Dortmund) Plate (Mönchengladbach) Florian Thorwart (Dortmund) 1st BL Goal: Rüdiger Kauf (Bielefeld, 27 games) Marcel Maltritz (Hamburg, 74 games) Add-on to Dortmund’s roster: 41 LEANDRO – M – Brazil – 1977 – Atletico Mineiro – 1/0 ?? Florian THORWART – D – Germany - 1982 - / - 1/0 Add-on to Schalke’s roster: 34 Abdul IYODO – F – Nigeria – 1979 - SG Wattenscheid 09 – 1/0 Add-on to Mönchengladbach’s roster: ?? Daniel EMBERS – D – Germany – 1981 - / - 1/0 ?? Sebastian PLATE – ? – Germany – 19?? - / - 1/0 Add-on to Nürnberg’s roster: 27 JUNIOR – M – Brazil – 1977 – 1.FC Kaiserslautern - 18/1