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He played the last games of the season from the start, scoring or rather hammering his first Bundesliga goal past me from a free kick and he then signed his first professional contract. Over the next five years the left footer became an important part of the Bochum 'Unrelegateables'. Bochum even reached the DFB Pokal final in Berlin in 1988 but lost 1-0 to Eintracht Frankfurt. Following the 1988/89 season, VfL Bochum, as every year, had to sell a player to keep their licence. Several Bundesliga clubs were interested in Kree. He opted for a move to Leverkusen, immediately became a first choice and he went on to make 156 Bundesliga appearances for the Werkself. He scored 22 goals including eleven from the penalty spot.
During his time under the Bayer Cross, the TV broadcaster RTL, who then had the rights to the Bundesliga, ran a competition amongst Bundesliga players to find the player with the hardest shot. Martin Kree was the winner by a large margin over the other players with a speed of 137 kmph. He subsequently even achieved a speed over 140 kmph. From then on Martin was the man with the powerful left foot and was often reduced to the man with the hammer shot. In fact he was a fair, ball-winning and strong in the air central defender who was never shown a red card in his 441 Bundesliga appearances. Martin won the DFB Pokal with the Werkself in 1993. In the following season, coach Dragoslav Stepanovic started an argument with him for some inexplicable reason when he demanded that Martin move from Bochum to Leverkusen. But Martin, who never arrived late at training, refused the flats offered by the club, only played 18 times in that season and did not extend his contract at Bayer 04. He said he had no desire to play under a coach who didn't like him.
He joined Borussia Dortmund in 1994. In spite of the stiff competition he was often in the starting line-up and with BVB he was a champion of Germany in 1995 and 1996, won the Champions League and the World Club Cup in 1997. In 1999, after a year without a Bundesliga game, he ended his successful playing career at the age of 33.
After a couple of years at a marketing firm, Martin branched out on his own in 2004 and worked with the company New Horizons and the RhineRuhr Academy in the training, further education and retraining sector. The current focus here is on IT, process, project and time management.
Dear Martin, I wish you a happy 60th birthday. Stay healthy and have a great day.
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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