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His first spell in Germany did not last long. The then completely unknown striker played one game for Darmstadt 98 in December 1978 before returning to South Korea to do his national service. After ending military service, Bummi returned to the Bundesliga. He signed for Eintracht Frankfurt where he won the UEFA Cup with the club in 1980 and the DFB Cup a year later.
Bayer 04 stepped in when the Hessen club was forced to sell players due to financial problems. Leverkusen's coach Dettmar Cramer convinced the exceptional striker to move under the Bayer Cross and the Werkself thereby had their first world-class player in 1983. In the next six years, Bum-kun Cha made 185 Bundesliga appearances for Bayer 04 and he scored 52 goals. The South Korean formed a dangerous strike partnership with Herbert Waas, Leverkusen's first international player, and he also scored seven goals in 15 DFB Cup ties. Bummi netted his most important goal for the Black and Reds on the European stage. On 18 May 1988, playing in the second leg of the UEFA Cup final against Espanyol, he rose into the Leverkusen night air to head home a free kick from Andrzej Buncol to make it 3-0 – extra time, penalties. The first title for Bayer 04.
In his final season at Leverkusen, in 1988/89, Bum-kun Cha, gained his coaching badge and in the 1990s he coached several South Korean teams and he was also the national coach for a year in 1997. The ‘South Korean Beckenbauer’, as Cha was known due to his popularity at home, was voted Asian player of the 20th century by the Asian Football Association. He was the first South Korean player to move to Europe and he paved the way for many of his fellow countrymen. Bum-kun Cha is still a legend in Asia today. Current players like Heung-min Son show him great respect. Bum-kun Cha was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2019.
The very religious father of three today lives with his wife Un-mi in Seoul. His son Du-ri also played in the Bundesliga including for Eintracht Frankfurt, SC Freiburg and Mainz 05.
Dear Bummi, many happy returns on your 70th birthday. Have a good one and stay healthy.
Minas Hantzidis was born on 4 July 1966 in Kettwig, near Essen, and he grew up in Germany. He developed a passion for football at a young age and, whilst still a youth player, moved from Wuppertaler SV to Bayer 04. The attacking and goal-scoring midfielder then made a name for himself in his first senior season at Bayer 04. In the reserve team, he scored goal after goal in the first half of the season, soon began training with the first team and was brought on as a substitute for the first time by manager Erich Ribbeck on 22 November 1985 in a home match against Bayern Munich.
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Sascha was born on 3 July 1986 in Leverkusen. He is the son of former Bundesliga 2 player Manfred Dum, who mainly scored goals for Union Solingen but also played for FC Saarbrücken, SC Freiburg and Wuppertaler SV. Sascha started playing for the youth teams at HSV Langenfeld at an early age. There, he caught the eye of scouts from Bayer 04 and joined the club at a young age. Following a growth spurt in the U15 team, which forced him to take a nine-month break, the left-footed player finally had the ideal conditions to establish himself in the Bayer 04 youth ranks. Even as an U17 player, he made the leap into the U19 team. Blessed with immense pace, Sascha primarily played in attacking midfield. Not the most technically gifted, but possessing a powerful shot, he found himself training with the first team in the summer of 2005 alongside Gonzalo Castro, while he was still a U19 player.
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The Werkself could not have hoped for a better start to the Bundesliga 2 North season in 1976/77. At the end of a week-long training camp in Quickborn, Schleswig-Holstein, coach Willibert Kremer’s side secured two convincing victories over BSC Brunsbüttel (5–0) and TuS Holstein Quickborn (6–0). Following this flying start, Bayer 04 faced a considerably tougher challenge on 23 July 1976 at 19:30 CEST at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium against Bundesliga side Karlsruher SC.
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On 27 June 2001, new head coach Klaus Toppmöller and his assistant Peter Hermann led the Werkself out of the changing rooms for their first training session. Joining them as they stepped onto the pitch at training ground 1 were the four new signings: Hans Jörg Butt, Yildiray Bastürk (with special permission from VfL Bochum, as Bayer 04 and VfL had not yet agreed on a transfer fee), Zoltan Sebescen and Michael Zepek, the record holder for appearances for the youth national team.
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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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