[3] He was then allowed to join the youth department of the army-sponsored football club FC Vorwärts Frankfurt in 1984.
[5] He was then listed with the reserve team FC Vorwärts Frankfurt II in the second-tier DDR-Liga for the 1988-89 season.
[6] Werner claims that the army-officers at FC Vorwärts Frankfurt eventually had enough of him, after a teacher had found a scribbling he had made, with notes such as "Udo Lindenberg" and "The wall must go".
[4][6] Werner was subsequently demoted to second-grade enterprise sports community BSG Motor Eberswalde in 1989.
He has explained that his job at the pitch was not to ”shape football”, but "solely to destroy the opponent's game", by "following the opposing striker everywhere".
Werner made only one appearance for Hansa Rostock in the 1991-92 Bundesliga, but was part of a team that won victories against opponents such as Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.
[3] After promotion to the Bundesliga with Hansa Rostock, Werner fulfilled a great personal dream, by finally buying a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
[4] However, Werner unfortunately suffered a cruciate ligament tear in a duel with Boussia Dortmund midfielder Knut Reinhardt on the third matchday of the 1995-96 Bundesliga.
Werner returned to Hansa Rostock in June 2010 as an assistant to C-Junior coach Juri Schlünz.
[13] Former Hansa Rostock youth talent Marten Laciny, who saw Hansa Rostock win promotion to the Bundesliga in 1995 at the Ostseestadion as a twelve-year-old, told in an interview with German football magazine 11 Freunde how he once watched Stefan Beinlich, Rocco Milde and Steffen Baumgart shoot down Hannover 96, with "Werner's hair flying at the back of the defence".
But Hansa Rostock coach Uwe Reinders had allegedly told him: "If you ever miss a header because your hair is in your face, you'll never play again."
Between two matches during an indoor tournament in Bremen, shortly after starting at Hansa Rostock, he accepted a vodka from a visitor.