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He made ten Bundesliga appearances in his first year including nine as a substitute. Thomas mostly played for the VfB reserves. He joined second division Fortuna Düsseldorf in November 1994. The centre-forward was promoted to the Bundesliga with the Düsseldorf club but played from the bench more than he started. To get more playing time he joined Fortuna Köln in 1996. He established himself in the second year and scored his goals. He joined Bayer 04 after good performances in Bundesliga 2 for two years. In his three years at the Werkself he was a league runner-up in 2000. And, above all, he was a very important part of the team in the second half of the season that ended as runners-up in the Bundesliga, DFB Pokal and Champions League in 2002. In that season he made his first of eight international appearances. After 126 appearances for the Werkself, with 21 goals scored, he went out on loan to Hannover 96 in 2003.
After one year at VfL Wolfsburg in the 2004/05 season, he ended his playing career after another three years at Hannover 96 in 2008 due to a knee injury. That was followed by several operations and rehab that especially affected Thommy. He recounts his experience in the areas of injuries, overcoming stress and convalescence in a range of lectures and podium discussions. During his time as a player he looked after his career after playing football. He trained to be a coach and set up the restaurant destination Fährhaus Niederrhein. At the same time he never really lost contact with football and he trained a lot of teams including the Bayer 04 U14s for a year in 2010/11. He wrote a book entitled 'Matchplan Indien' (Game plan India) about his year in India in 2023/23. In 274 pages, Thomas portrays his experiences at FC Chennaiyin in a very authentic way in the style of a diary.
From 2024, the father of three, who occasionally plays for the Werkself Veterans, has coached the Albanian club Vllaznia Shkoder for the second time. He was very successful with the Albanian top-flight club from 2020 to 2022 and he was voted Coach of the Year by the Albanian FA in his first season.
Dear Thommy, many happy returns on your 50th birthday. Have a great day and stay fit and healthy
Bayer 04 started the new season on 20 July 1950. To the applause from almost 2,000 spectators, the Werkself stepped onto the pitch at the Am Stadtpark stadium and the season target was clear to the supporters: finally achieve promotion to the Oberliga West. Under the direction of new coach Raymond Schwab, who brought one of his Essen players with him in the shape of Karl-Heinz Spikofski, the team did a couple of laps. Coach Schwab gave a speech in front of all the fans where he clearly imparted his request for calm in the stands and he said he hated nothing more than heckling or laughing when mistakes are made. He hoped the Bayer 04 supporters would follow his advice.
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Horst Knauf was born in Cologne on 16 August 1960. As a teenager he played for PSV Köln before signing for the Bayer 04 Leverkusen U19s as a talented midfielder in 1976. He made the move up from the second team to the Bundesliga squad in 1980. Over the following three years he played 39 Bundesliga games and scored two goals. Above all in the difficult 1981/82 season for the Werkself with the play-off games against Kickers Offenbach, he played a big part in saving Bayer 04 with 21 appearances. But under the new coach Dettmar Cramer he rarely made a start and he decided to move on.
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Holger Aden was born in Hamburg on 25 August 1965. He learned all about playing football and, above all, scoring goals at the two Hamburg clubs Niendorfer TSV and TSV DuWo 08 Hamburg. After progression from the youth teams, he played for other Hamburg clubs. One after the other he appeared for Concordia Hamburg, Altona 93 and SC Norderstedt. The centre-forward regularly found the back of the opposition net. He scored 22 goals for SC Norderstedt in the 1988/89 season.
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Michael Ballack was born in Görlitz in the GDR on 26 September 1976. He displayed his talent for football at a young age. After his family moved to Karl-Marx-Stadt, now called Chemnitz, he started playing for BSG Motor ‘Fritz Heckert’ Karl-Marx-Stadt where he constantly continued to develop his ability on the pitch. From year seven he went to the children and youth sports college and there he received systematic support in sport that led, against the background of his increasing ability, to a move to FC Karl-Marx-Stadt. At the age of 16, he had to take a six-month break due to growing pains, but then there was no stopping Michael after that.
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In this video you can watch impressive and important goals in the history of Bayer 04 in the month of August. It is not always about the beauty of the goals but also about remembering special games and players.
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