They fought to avoid relegation.

Krashniki, Miku and Elton scored successively, and the visiting parrots defeated the Bundesliga overlord and were crowned Bundesliga champions ahead of time.

That season, the unstoppable Werder Bremen won the only double in the team's history.

There is no doubt that such a story is moving, and Werder Bremen has gained a place in the memory of many Chinese fans.

At that time, online football watching was not yet popular, and CCTV always played the Bundesliga in prime-time "Football weekend" and "Football Sunday", so people saw Miku's imaginative accurate pass and Elton's swift counterattack.

The whirlwind of green swept through the Bundesliga, in the prime of life.

Indeed, Werder Bremen is a typical representative of Germany's "ancestral wealth".

From 1981 to 1995, Rehagel, who led Greece to perform fairy tales in the European Cup, coached the team. Werder Bremen won the Bundesliga in 1987-88 and 1992-93, and won the second runner-up and second runner-up, respectively, and won two German Cups.

In the 1992 season in 1991, the Green and White Legion won the European Cup winners' Cup, which is the only European championship on the team's honor book.

With four Bundesliga championships in team history, Werder Bremen are second only to Bayern, Borussia Dortmund and Menchengladbach, while the team more than a decade ago was not afraid of Bayern in the domestic battlefield and continued to train potential stars. has become a beautiful scenery in the Bundesliga field.

After the 2003 double Championship season, Werder Bremen officially entered the ranks of the top teams in the Bundesliga and entered the Champions League for several years in a row, so that the team gradually began to attract players with strength and potential to join. In the following years, Werder Bremen also relied on the continuous delivery of quality players to gradually become the Bundesliga star processing factory, Diego is one of the representative figures.

Unfortunately, without commercial support, Werder Bremen will not be able to highlight for a long time after all. coupled with the unfavorable introduction of aid and the lack of youth training output, after years of struggle, quantitative change has produced a qualitative change, and the elegant demeanor of the former king has gradually disappeared.

It is hard to imagine that Werder Bremen have been struggling in the relegation zone for a long time this season, but it is understandable if you look at the past record-Werder Bremen ranked only 13th in the Bundesliga in 2010, five points higher than the relegation zone, while they ranked 14th in 2012, three points higher than the relegation zone.

(Bremen League chart 1947-2017, never left the Bundesliga since 1981).

The story of this season is even more struggling. Werder Bremen started the league with a two-game losing streak, which was followed by a two-game winning streak, but they only won two games in the next 22 rounds, which pushed the team directly into the abyss.

To avoid relegation, Werder Bremen must be at least third from the bottom of the league to win the promotion play-off, while Dusseldorf has always maintained a 2-5 point advantage.

Perhaps only at such a moment can Werder Bremen remember the glory of their ancestors.

In the 27th round after the rematch, the parrots beat Freiburg 1-0, ending eight rounds unbeaten; in the 28th round of the Bundesliga, they drew 0-0 with a strong Menxing; just last night, they beat the ailing Schalke 04 1-0, leaving only 2 points behind Dusseldorf in the missing game, keeping the hope of staying in the Bundesliga.

In fact, there is no shortage of familiar names in this Bremen.

Japanese striker Daqiyongya, one of the best in Japanese football, scored a fatal blow against Colombia in the 2018 World Cup, making Japan the first Asian team in World Cup history to beat a South American team.

Pizarro, 41, has long been a living fossil in the Bundesliga. He has a rich career and can score two goals at the age of 40.

Shaxin, who has played for Real Madrid, Liverpool and Dott, is also an old acquaintance of many Bundesliga fans.

But none of this can stop the decline of Werder Bremen, which may also be a tragedy in the context of the Bundesliga.

In the 21st century, the Bundesliga team generally attaches importance to youth training, which is the luck of German football, however, it also makes many former strong teams embark on the road of old capital, which is also the sadness of the Bundesliga.

Bundesliga "Dinosaur" Hamburg has been relegated, former champion Stuttgart is also playing in the second division, Werder Bremen's dilemma is by no means alone.

This is the cruel football bar, like sailing against the current, not to advance is to fall behind.

Werder Bremen are struggling with the times and they want to preserve the glory of team history.

Looking at such Werder Bremen, we can not help but sigh, the memory of the picture is also constantly flashing.

That year, Elton's sturdy body galloped through the Bundesliga, accompanied by cheers on the pitch, leaving a mark of the times.

However, the era will eventually pass, only by constantly moving forward, can we see the beautiful new scenery.

Maybe this is the truth of life that football tells us.