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Bayer 04 Leverkusen: Hrádecký – Kossounou, Tah, Hincapié– Tella (79. Frimpong), Andrich, Xhaka, Grimaldo – Hložek (32. Adli), Iglesias (66. Boniface), WirtzThe starting XI

Rodrigo Rocha has been a Werder fan since childhood. That’s nothing special in and of itself, but growing up in Brazil, Rodrigo could only follow his beloved Green-Whites through the TV screen. Although he had plans to finally see Werder at Osterdeich in 2020, the pandemic meant the football world had to be put on pause around the time of his visit. “Now I’ve got a perfect excuse to come back again,” he said at the time, grinning – and now he has.

Labrović, who kept 18 clean sheets in 35 league games in the season just gone, is currently preparing for the European Championships in Germany with Croatia. The 24-year-old travelled at short notice from Croatia’s base in Neuruppin, Brandenburg to Augsburg in order to successfully pass his medical and sign the contract.

The former Bayern Munich star went to Catalonia with heavy expectations and while Barça has been formidable, an early Champions League exit and maybe not as much production as some would like have somewhat marred Lewandowski’s first-year with the club.

All the goals and best moments from another memorable season for RBL.

Leonidas Stergiou is currently in Stuttgart with the Swiss national team, preparing for the European Championship. In this interview, the 22-year-old spoke about being given the nod for his country, and the chance to face off against Germany.

The summer of 2020 marked the start of a new chapter in the newly qualified ex-professional’s life, in which he made an immediate career transition at Union. As a trainee, Parensen went through numerous departments at the club, returning to the football department a year later. From then on, he supported Oliver Ruhnert, the director of men’s professional football, in his duties. After successfully completing the management course at the DFB, for which he was registered by Union, he was appointed Technical Director of the men’s professional division in the summer of 2022, where he has been responsible for technical administration ever since. Now, after a total of 15 years together, the work between Union and Michael Parensen is now coming to an end.

Real Madrid and FC Barcelona would also like to kick the tires on the skilled Spaniard, who has established himself for both club and country in recent years:

“We did not learn enough from history, there is still so much hate in this world.” These powerful words from Michael Smuss, one of the last survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in spring 1943, stayed in Ruth Pintner’s mind. During her visit to Israel, which was organised at the invitation of the World Jewish Congress and the organisation What Matters to the DFL, the TSG Hoffenheim press officer experienced a country at war over five days, which is currently struggling with far more than the omnipresent anti-Semitism. 130 Jewish Israelis had been held hostage by Hamas since 7 October. On this fateful day for Israel, Pintner was also in Israel with her family and witnessed the terrorist attack first-hand in this already highly volatile and fragile geopolitical situation. Now the 37-year-old has returned for the first time – and experienced a country in a traumatised state.

Tickets for the home sections are now available online at the Union-Zeughaus. Union members have the opportunity to secure up to four tickets up to and including 07.04.2024 before the free sale starts at 10:00 on 08.04. The tickets are also available in Union’s Zeughaus stores.