Hunt, Frings, and Hoffenheim
By: Jamie | November 3rd, 2009Aaron Hunt has been garnering international attention lately amidst rumors that England U21 coach Stuart Pearce has been keeping an eye on him and reporting his progress to Fabio Capello. Raf Honigstein at the Guardian even devoted his weekly Bundesliga write-up to the debate. There is of course mention of Hunt’s former (some alleged) bad habits and injuries, but if he has indeed sorted himself out and continues to improve, I would love to see him get a Germany call-up. I would also like to see him sign a new contract with Werder, but we shall see. As speculation ran rife over the weekend, Hunt finally came out and basically told England – thanks, but no thanks. He wants to play for Deutschland. It must be nice to have two of the top footballing nations in the world competing for your affections, though.
In other news, Werder have drawn Hoffenheim at home in the quarterfinals of the DFB-Pokal. Most news reports I read were talking about how we have to take on “in-form Hoffenheim”. So, are we not in-form? Did we not just beat Hoffenheim a few weeks ago? Sure, it’s a Pokal match and it can go either way. But don’t start big-upping Hoffenheim just because they won this past weekend. Besides, the next round isn’t until February, so either team could crash and burn by then. I mean, Bayern’s strikers might even learn to score goals by then. It’s a long way off.
And finally, our captain Torsten Frings will be out for an unspecified amount of time after picking up an injury during the draw with Nuremberg. All Schaaf will say is that he will miss “some time”… which doesn’t exactly sound too encouraging. With Frings out, Pizarro still a doubt, and our #2 and possible #3 (Almeida and Moreno) strikers both likely still injured (and Oehrl is also definitely out), things may not look too bright for taking on Austria Wien on Thursday or Dortmund this weekend. Hopefully we can pass both tests on the strength of our goal-scoring midfielders (and maybe Rosenberg can finally find his form), and then there will be plenty of time for players to recover over the international break.
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Hello Werder Bremen fans, I was wondering, could you tell me something about the player Sebastian Boenisch? I’m Polish and he’s apparently going to play for Poland.
How good is he? Thanks in advance!Posted from
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Boenisch is a good player, still room for improvement. He was one of the first-choice fullbacks for the Germany U21 team that won the Euros this past summer. So he’s decided to play for Poland instead? Interesting!
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Not a Werder fan but I’ve seen him in a couple of games for both Werder and the German U21:
Boenisch always looks like a poor man’s Marcell Jansen to me. They are both tall and athletic full backs who can romp up and down the wings for 90 minutes. The difference though is that Jansen combines this with good ball control and vision, allowing him to cut inside and play a clever pass or send a good cross into the penalty area. Boenisch on the other hand has so far showcased very obvious technical limitations, which usually nullified the other promising aspects of his game. A promising attack is then usually wasted with a cross that ends up in the stands etc. An overall rather mediocre full back IMHO.Though, I’m probably overly critical of Boenisch, because he’s getting regular playing time at Bremen and was also selected for the U21, so maybe there is more to him, than met my eye so far. And he could still improve with age of course.
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