While everyone else was mourning the lost points from Schalke, one Werder player posted messages of joy on Twitter! Just hours after playing on the pitch at Veltins Arena, Aleksandar Ignjovski received the news that his first child was born. Seeing his daughter Mila was the end of a nerve-racking day for the Werder player.

At 11 a.m., "Iggy" received the news at the team headquarters at the Parkhotel Recklinghausen that his wife had to go to the Bremen Klinikum hospital because labour was starting. The midfielder told his coach Robin Dutt, who told the Serbian he could leave the team if he wanted to go. "I said he should decide if he wanted to stay with the team or drive to his family. Children are more important than football matches," said the coach. Ignjovski remained with the team and was subbed in after 71 minute for Clemens Fritz.

"Iggy" kept his calm after the final whistle. "I still need to shower. I couldn't show up in the clinic like that. But after that, everything went so fast. ‘Baumi' offered to be the chauffer. The baby wasn't there yet. I hoped I could make it there on time," said Ignjovski, who headed to Bremen in the company car from Frank Baumann, the director of professional football and scouting. The problem was on the northbound A1 highway.

who was on the highway around Münster when Mila was born at 7:10 p.m. Her papa still needed more than an hour to get to the clinic as Baumann's Passat CC hit the brakes at the clinic doors at 8.30 p.m. But all the stress was forgotten when Ignjovski saw the healthy baby girl for the first time. "It was pretty clear that it would be tight." Shortly before midnight, "Iggy" tweeted a picture of him and his little girl on Istangram. "Happiest day of my life," said the Serb. "Iggy" can still hardly believe it two days after the birth of his first child. "It's a wonderful, unbelievable feeling," he told WERDER.DE. "My wife is coming home tomorrow. I am so much looking forward to that."

So much so that he has decided for family this time and football is playing second fiddle. "I will stay here in Bremen with her even though I was invited to the national team matches in Dubai. I called off the national team," he said. The Serbian federation said it understood his decision. Dutt also stuck to his family-friendly strategy and gave the player two days off. The team will continue training on Tuesday.