Willi Korth moved under the Bayer Cross for the 1978/79 season. In his first year at Leverkusen he was part of the Bundesliga promotion team but only made seven appearances as a substitute. It was even worse for him in his second season at the Werkself. He didn't play a single minute for Bayer 04 in the first campaign in the Bundesliga. So Korth decided to return to Essen.
He remained true to Essen from 1980 to 1991 and was a crowd favourite as defender. When he started his long runs he was greeted with a drawn out cry of ‘Williiiiiiii’ at the Uhlenkrug Stadium. In 2008 Willi Korth was voted into the all-time Oberliga team of the last 30 years at Schwarz-Weiß and even now he is an ETB legend.
After his playing career ended, Willi stayed at his ETB (Essener Turnerbund Schwarz-Weiß e.V.) as head of the Uhlenkrug commercial company and as a board member before he had to retire due to health reasons.
Dear Willi, I wish you all the best on your 70th birthday. Enjoy the celebrations and remain fit and healthy.
Claus-Dieter, known as ‘Pele’, Wollitz was born in Brakel on 19 July 1965 in Brakel. He earned the nickname of the Brazilian global super star at the age of six because he was able to the juggle the ball for a long time as a child. What was originally meant as a stunt would follow him all his life. Every football fan associates the name Wollwitz with his nickname: Pele.
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José Roberto da Silva Junior, Zé Roberto for short, was born in the Brazilian city of São Paulo on 6 July 1974. He started playing football at the Pequeninos de Joquey soccer school at the age of seven. Via the club Palestra Sao Bernardo, the left footer moved on to the professional club Portuguesa de Desportos where he made his debut in 1994.
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25 years ago, the Bayer 04 U19 team under their two coaches Thomas Hörster and Dirk Dreher were Regional League West champions and thereby participants in the finals of the German championship.
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After promotion to Bundesliga 2, the football boss Hermann Bacall had his hands full putting together a powerful team. For the first training session at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium on 14 July 1975 there were nine new signings including five players who became regular starters in the team that won promotion to the Bundesliga in 1979.
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After the success of the previous year, the gymnastics and sports club Leverkusen hold the ‘Wiesdorfer Sportwoche’ week of sports for a second time (the city of Leverkusen is only founded in 1930). The week of sport started on Sunday, 12 July 1925. In the years before World War I there were municipal gymnastics and games festivals. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the club in 1924 the board and many helping hands started the week of sports. An internal municipal games festival developed into a national event which made a name for itself after a year particularly due to the relay element.
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