Football ex-national goalkeeper
Tim Wiese takes Werder Bremen to court
Status: 27.10.2023 | Reading time: 2 minutes
Tim Wiese at striker Claudio Pizarro’s farewell game in the Werder jersey
Source: picture alliance/Eibner-Pressefoto/Marcel von Fehrn
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The simmering dispute between Tim Wiese and Werder Bremen ends in court. The ex-goalkeeper wants to gain access to his former club. The trigger is said to have been an incident at a Werder home game.
Tim Wiese played a total of 266 games for Werder Bremen. Now the former national goalkeeper wants to go to court to avert the stadium ban imposed on him by his former club. Both the Bundesliga club and Wiese’s lawyer Heiko Klatt confirmed the date of the hearing on November 20th at the Bremen regional court to the German Press Agency on Thursday evening. The “Bild” newspaper had previously reported on the escalated dispute.
“We tried to resolve the whole thing out of court because we believe the ban is illegal. You didn’t explain the background to us specifically. The only option then is to go to court,” said lawyer Klatt in response to a dpa request. When asked, the association also stated that it did not want to comment on the ongoing proceedings.
Werder had imposed a stadium ban valid until December 31st against its former goalkeeper, who played 266 competitive games for Bremen. The background is said to have been an incident at the home game against Bayer Leverkusen in March. Wiese is accused of allegedly making comments about a female service worker from the caterer “Food Affairs” “in a way that violates human dignity” when he was a guest at Lodge S32.
Bremen defends itself against Wiese’s allegations
Attorney Klatt explained the lawsuit filed some time ago with what Wiese believed to be a lack of clarification of the incident by Bremen. “Werder did not even contact the witnesses named by Tim Wiese, let alone ask them about the accusation. The stadium ban is therefore based on arbitrariness and not on the basis of sufficient clarification of the facts,” Klatt said at the time.
Tim Wiese saves a shot from Nelson Valdez in Claudio Pizarro’s farewell game
Source: dpa/Sina Schuldt
Bremen’s professional football director Clemens Fritz (42) then defended himself against the allegations that the Hanseatic League did not take the issue seriously or that there were problems with the processes. “We are really approaching this with the best of our knowledge and belief,” he added at the time. He did not want to say more because of the ongoing proceedings.
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