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As a teenager he played for TuS Osdorf, a sports club in the district of Altona. As a U19 player he joined FC St. Pauli where the qualified electrician was in the squad of the second tier club from the 1974/75 season and he made his debut in May 1975 in a 4-0 away for the Hamburg team in Münster. The defender was a first choice in the Pauli first team the season after and he went on to play in all 38 games. After four successful years at Millerntor, where Demuth helped St. Pauli achieve their first promotion to the Bundesliga in 1976/77, Bayer 04 signed him in 1979. Leverkusen had just been promoted to Germany's top flight for the first time.
The ball-winning and strong in the air central defender, who formed the rugged central defence alongside Jürgen Gelsdorf, made 92 Bundesliga appearances and scored 14 goals along the way. The reliable penalty taker, who scored eight goals from the spot for Bayer 04, will always have a place in the history of our club for two events. On the first matchday in the 1979/80 season, Demuth converted a penalty on 62 minutes for the final score of 3-1 to Bayern Munich at the Olympic Stadium in Munich and thus became our first Bundesliga goalscorer. In addition, he was the first Bayer 04 player to score the Goal of the Month as voted for on Sportschau. In February 1980, the Sportschau audience voted his flying header against MSV Duisburg as the best goal.
Didi's time under the Bayer Cross ended four years later. His next club was Kickers Offenbach where he was unable to prevent the newly promoted club going down so he moved back to his hometown a year later to play at the Millerntor in the second division. Demuth went up and down from the second tier with the Hamburg club over the next four years.
Didi began his second career in football as a coach in 1990. First he was in charge of the second team at FC St. Pauli And in the following years he again and again moved between the head and assistant coaching posts at different clubs. In January 1999 his path, as an assistant coach alongside head coach Willi Reimann, took him back to the second division side from Millerntor. Just over a year later, in March 2000, he was in sole charge of the team and he saved FC St. Pauli from relegation from Bundesliga 2 and, out of the blue, he then achieved promotion a season later. The Hamburg side battled against relegation from the start in the Bundesliga and in the end had to accept the bitter drop to the second tier. But the Demuth team went into the history books on 6 February 2002. A Wednesday match under floodlights, unforgettable for every St. Pauli fan, saw a battling St. Pauli team beat the reigning champions of Germany and World Club Cup winners Bayern Munich 2-1. Since then Pauli have been known as the "World Club Cup winners beaters."
After relegation, Dietmar left the club after two heavy defeats in Bundesliga 2 in the summer of 2002 and he went on to be the head coach at a lot of different clubs in the following years. That took him to Ghana and to SV Babelsberg where his team played the Werkself in the first round of the DFB Pokal in the 2009/10 season. His side only lost 1-0 in a tight game.
After further posts at lower league clubs the coach Dietmar Demuth has had a quieter time in recent years. He can now look back at a very successful time in football and this year he is 70 years old in January.
Dear Didi, I wish you all the best on your birthday. Have a great time and stay fit and well.
Wolfgang Vöge was born on 15 September 1955 in Ahlen, Westphalia and he was the fourth of seven children of a miner. His father, Erich Vöge, was a football referee as well. At an early age, Wolle, as he was called by his friends and teammates, developed a great passion for football and was an enthusiastic fan of BVB. His first success in football was achieved in the amateur game at his hometown club of SV Ahlen. He scored 26 goals in the first season and he came to the attention of scouts. That led to his move to Borussia Dortmund in 1975.
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Andreas Thom was born on 7 September 1965 in Rüdersdorf near Berlin in Brandenburg. Andreas displayed an exceptional talent on the ball even as a child. Early on, he joined the youth section at BFC Dynamo Berlin, one of the leading football clubs in the German Democratic Republic. There he received targeted, performance-oriented training as part of the GDR sports system. His talent, his vision and his technique led him to make his debut in the first team at BFC Dynamo at the age of 17.
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Jens Melzig was born in Cottbus on 28 September 1965. Melle, as he was called at Leverkusen, started his playing career at his hometown club Energie Cottbus. As a young player there he soon stood out thanks to his strength in challenges and his ability to read the game. He was in the Energie Cottbus first team in 1984 and he played for the club in the GDR league and the Oberliga. With 144 appearances and twelve goals he became one of the big players in defence. He made a major contribution to the club during this period – as a strong-tackling central defender who also displayed leadership qualities.
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Lucio, full name Lucimar Ferreira da Silva, was born on 8 May 1978 in Planaltina, a suburb of the Brazilian capital Brasília. He showed his passion for football even as a child. On the dusty streets of his neighbourhood he spent hours chasing the ball – often in bare feet like many Brazilian children. Despite the simple conditions he grew up in, his family always supported his dream of one day becoming a great football player. He made his first steps in club football at small local clubs before moving onto the youth set-up at the club Guará and later he singed for the big club Internacional Porto Alegre. Bayer 04 signed the internationally completely unknown defender from there in January 2000.
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In this video you can watch impressive and important goals in the history of Bayer 04 in the month of September. It is not always about the beauty of the goals but also about remembering special games and players.
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