The spirit and rebel hair of the RDA

It was 1991. The wall of Berlin has fallen and the Hansa Rostock He was announced champion of the last league of Democratic Germany and the Pokal (The cup). Among them, a player who has only one mission will stand: destroy any football construction from the conflicting team.

Mike Werner (2/13/1971, SpriMerg, Land de Cottbus, East Germany) This is not a central defense. This is a personal marker: “My farm work is not to mold football. My only task is to destroy the opponent’s game”. And she added that “Now, on a good team, the defenses should also be very good at getting the ball out. Before it is not so.” And social, many things have changed as well.

The long hair

Starting in style. Mike Werner It belongs to that kind of players outside Eastern Europe with an image that for years remained anchored in the early 80s and the West discovered when the Berlin wall collapsed in 1989.

It’s up to him BSG Energie Cottbus where he began to give the ball in 1984 in the stage of his children to move to the football club that is sponsored by the army, the FC Vorwärts Frankurt (In Frankfurt a der oderin an hour and a half of Berlin). He had come a little long hair and the Vorwärts leaders warned him that if he continued to take it in such a way he would not play. After passing the subsidiary group, he debuted with the first DDR-Oberliga team at the age of 17 in 1988.

They began to crack out changes of change from the east and west. Political movements did not stop within the RDA And positions were replaced to change economic and social mismatches that were inevitable. The population is fed and desires for democracy and the capitalist system that lives across the wall.

Weakness -suspect of possible leakage

Werner explained that “I was instead of wild people at that time, the leaders liked it.Udo Lindenberg‘(German artist and activist). The officers were shocked. Carrying

Simple writings are sufficient for the fearful state of Democratic Republic To monitor and have someone who is in control of who wants to be deserted. And above all a young soccer player. That’s why they sent him BSG EBERSWALDE MOTOR In 1989, a team in the second division of RDA belonging to a conglomery of controlled companies.

The lesson for expressing a desire has brought other sports consequences: It is forbidden to participate in all global parties and, therefore, the U-17 World Cup As a youth team player, which is a first upbringing in his still young career. In EBERSWALDE, Werner Hair grows as a protest against the communist state. In addition, he liked leather jackets and strong motorcycle removal, clear west elements.

In EBERSWALDEa scout of Hansa Rostock Finally discover it and take it to Osteeeclub During winter break. In his first season he played 9 games to the maximum division of East Germany And while the Wall and Germany It meets, the Hansa Rostock won the title under the technical direction of Uwe reinders.

Among the great

The chromos album of Bundesliga Discover fans of the image of a player with long blonde hair, a delicious careful mustache and a small slope of gold in the ear. This is an icon and earn fans from other areas of Germany. In the year 1991-92 years the East Germany combined with Bundesliga of West Germany And the Hansa Rostock This is one of the four teams to go down. Mike Werner became regular in defense of Rostock In the 2nd division. He played 102 second division games in 3 periods, scored two goals and partially responsible for the success of Hansa to go back to Bundesliga As a champion of Bundesliga 2 During the period 1994-95.

But on the third day of the fight against Borussia Dortmund During the period 1995-96, Werner The knee acts on his first appearance in a rivalry along with Knut Reinhardt At 42 minutes and the cross ligament was damaged. The wound requires a lot of operations, does not heal properly and repeatedly contaminated. After accumulating only 64 minutes in BundesligaThe professional racing after 25 -Year -old player ended. He underwent some operations to fix it but the player is no longer the same.

Now she lives with her second husband, Uteand his daughter Daisyto a four -bedroom apartment in Ribnitz-Damgarten. She is a youthful coach and, though she does not look like her iconic hairstyle, she continues to keep her rebel spirit behind a Harley-Davidson.