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The very fast and untiring fair-haired player worked his way up with great ambition and hard-working training within a short time developing from an unknown amateur player with Oberhausen club VfB Lohberg into a reliable professional footballer. He came to the attention of Bundesliga club MSV Duisburg and they signed Frank Saborowski for the 1979/80 season. The newcomer played in 21 Bundesliga games that season and he went on to make a total of 72 Bundesliga appearances for the Zebras. In 1981/82, he played his part in helping MSV Duisburg avoid relegation. At the same time, he played a big part in Bayer 04 Leverkusen parting company with promotion coach Willibert Kremer. 14 November 1981 saw the relegation clash at the Wedau Stadium between bottom teams MSV Duisburg and Bayer 04. A great encounter developed in front of 13,000 spectators with chances for both sides. After Duisburg went 2-0 up, Peter Hermann pulled a goal back on 81 minutes. In the final minutes there was only one team attacking and that was Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Peter Hermann crosses the ball into the middle in added time, Peter Klimke controls the ball – and Frank Saborowski clears from behind the line with his hand. The referee points to the penalty spot. But then the linesman got involved. And he did not say that the ball was already behind the line and that a goal should be awarded. No, he said everything was in order. So the referee changes his penalty decision, it is only a corner for Bayer 04. He blew the final whistle just after the corner was taken. The vehement protests from the Leverkusen players was met by both the referee and the linesmen with stoic calm.
Six months later, Sabo moves under the Bayer Cross and works his way into the team as a man marker and full-back. Between August 1982 and February 1984, he makes 41 Bundesliga appearances but is then hit by a severe injury: He breaks his leg in training. Bayer 04 extend his contract by 12 months to give him a chance to fight his way back into the team. But he never plays for the Werkself again. In January 1985, Sabo joins VfL Bochum for the Rückrunde but only plays five games. He returns to MSV Duisburg in the second division in the summer of 1985. However, he is unable to prevent relegation to the third division. The Zebras are bottom by a long way. Via Rot-Weiss Essen and VfB Langenfeld he ends up at FC Bocholt. Here Sabo is in the dugout for the first time as assistant coach but he still plays ten games. He does his first coaching badge and works initially as assistant coach at teams including Wattenscheid 09 and LR Ahlen. At Ahlen he becomes head coach of the U 23 team and from 2004 he was responsible for the first teams at a range of smaller clubs including VfB Lohberg and Glückauf Möllen. Today he is the head coach of the U16 team at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen.
Dear Sabo, many happy returns on your 65th birthday. Enjoy your big day and stay healthy.
Heiko Scholz was born on 7 January 1966 in Görlitz. His first club as a youth player was Dynamo Görlitz. From there, he moved up to the sports school in Dresden and played in the youth teams at SG Dynamo Dresden from 1978-1982. Not considered good enough, Scholle, as he was nicknamed, had to leave the sports school to play his last two youth years at ISG Hagenwerder. Via BSG Chemie Leipzig and 1.FC Lokomotive Leipzig, who Heiko won the DDR Pokal with in 1987 and he also reached the European Cup Winners' Cup final (a 1-0 defeat against Ajax), his path finally led him back to his favourite club, Dynamo Dresden. For one million Deutschmarks, the highest transfer fee ever paid for a player in the former GDR, he moved from Lok Leipzig to the capital of Saxony in 1990.
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Stefan Kießling was born on 25 January 1984 in Lichtenfels, Franconia. Even as a young boy, he spent countless hours on the football pitches of his home town, chasing after the ball and dreaming of playing football. His parents supported him, but they bring him up in a down-to-earth manner - hard work, honesty and modesty are values that characterise him from an early age. His talent became apparent early on, but his ambition was even more striking. Kießling always wants to improve, wants to give more than others.
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On Sunday 26 January 1936, the local derby between relegation-threatened BV Wiesdorf and league leaders SSV ‘Bayer’ Leverkusen took place in the first district league of the Rhein-Wupper district. On the old BV Wiesdorf pitch, where the Leverkusen job centre is today, 1,800 spectators gather to watch the match.
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It is Friday, 31 January 1986, the derby in Cologne is coming up and we're full of confidence after the home win against Hamburg SV a week earlier, having turned a 2-0 deficit at the break into a 3-2 victory. In particular, the Greek amateur player Minas Hantzidis, who came on as a half-time substitute, turned the game around. Two goals from Bum-kun Cha and a penalty from Christian Schreier gave us two important points in the battle for a UEFA Cup place. We are one point behind the North Germans in fifth place in the table, six points ahead of our neighbours from Cologne.
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In this video you can see impressive and important goals in Bayer 04 history from the month of January. It's not always about the beauty of the goals, but also a reminder of special games and players.
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