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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.
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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