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Peter progressed through the youth teams there and also made it into the national youth team. Via the Werkself amateur team, he finally broke through to the senior squad in the 1985/86 season. On 17 August 1985, he made his Bundesliga debut under coach Erich Ribbeck in a 2-0 win against FC Saarbrücken. In the following three years, ‘Zanti’, as he was called by his team-mates, made a total of 40 Bundesliga appearances for the Werkself.
Although he was denied a goal of his own, his assists and defensive stability made him a permanent fixture in the team. He also played in three DFB Pokal matches and eight UEFA Cup games. One of them on 17 September 1986 in Kalmar, Sweden. There he was in the starting eleven for the Werkself's first international appearance. Just one season later, he was part of the squad that celebrated one of the greatest successes in the club's history by winning the UEFA Cup.
In addition to playing for the Germany U21 team, Peter was also a member of the Bundeswehr national team in 1987, which reached the final of the World Military Cup in Italy. Although Germany were beaten 2-0 by the hosts Italy, second place was still a remarkable success.
After his time at Leverkusen, the right-back moved on to Hannover 96 for the 1988/89 season, where he also impressed with his calm, relaxed style of play and made 21 Bundesliga appearances. He then joined VfL Bochum, where he played a further 29 first division matches up to 1992. Zanter remained true to himself in all of his appearances: he was not a player for the headlines, but a reliable, team-orientated player.
Tragically, his career came to an abrupt end due to a serious Achilles tendon injury. Despite operations and attempts to make a comeback at lower league clubs such as SV Straelen and Hasper SV, he was unable to return to playing on a permanent basis. In 1994, Peter Zanter ended his active career with a heavy heart.
Nevertheless, he maintained his connection to football. In the years that followed, he worked as an assistant coach at several clubs, including KFC Uerdingen, Fortuna Köln, Preußen Münster, Holstein Kiel and Eintracht Braunschweig. At Braunschweig, he experienced a special moment alongside head coach Peter Vollmann: promotion to the Bundesliga 2. Peter later switched to scouting and worked for a sports agency - a field where he was able to contribute his flair for talent and his in-depth expertise.
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Hans Sarpei was born on 28 June 1976 in Tema, Ghana, and came to Germany with his parents at the age of three, where he grew up in Cologne. Even before he was born, his mother and father worked in Hamburg in the import-export sector. There they met an older man who introduced them to German culture and supported them. Out of gratitude, Hans was later given his first name, although this man died before he was born. Hans comes from a sporting family; his older brother Edward and his nephews Hans Nunoo Sarpei and Kingsley Sarpei were or are also professional footballers.
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On 3 June 1953, Hans-Josef (‘Sepp’) Kretschmann became the fifth coach in the history of Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Born in Allenstein, East Prussia, on 21 March 1902, the football coach first studied to become a teacher before later switching to football. He took over the Werkself from Franz Strehle, under whom the team twice managed to stay in the 1st Oberliga West. However, Strehle did not extend his contract in Leverkusen after these two very successful years.
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After promotion to Bundesliga North 2 in the summer of 1975, Bayer 04 are fighting relegation just eight months later. The club expects full commitment from everyone in this precarious situation. Promotion coach Manfred Rummel is to give up his main job as a teacher at the Mülheim special school and become a full-time coach at Bayer 04. The coach, who is very popular with the team, does not see himself in a position to fulfil the club's request. Despite a 2-0 home win against SpVgg Erkenschwick, Manfred Rummel is put on gardening leave by "mutual agreement".
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Bayer 04, already been promoted to the 1st Oberliga West, played friendly after friendly in the second half of May 1951. And that continued throughout the following month.
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Jacek Krzynowek was born on 15 May 1976 in Kamiensk, Poland, and grew up as a typical country boy. He spent his childhood less in structured training sessions and more on simple pitches, where he spent hours playing football with older boys. He realised early on that he had exceptional shooting power and enormous stamina. But for a long time, he didn't appreciate just how much talent he had. While others dream of a great career, professional football initially seems like a distant world to him that he only knows from television.
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