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In the summer of 1977 he signed for Bayer 04 Leverkusen in Bundesliga 2 where his former youth coach Willibert Kremer was now the head coach. The move proved to be a stroke of good luck. Klaus Bruckmann became a regular first choice in the team and at the same time completed a training course at Bayer AG. He made 75 appearances for the Werkself in Bundesliga 2 and scored 19 goals. He was promoted to the Bundesliga with Bayer 04 in the 1978/79 season.
He was a key part of Bayer 04 in the following years and played in 118 Bundesliga games. Bruckmann only scored five goals but one was really special: When the first derby was played at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium on 15 September 1979, Klaus Bruckmann opened the scoring with a wonderful header from a Dieter Herzog cross on 71 minutes. The FC Köln and Germany keeper at the time Toni Schumacher was helpless. The game unfortunately ended in a draw but Klaus Bruckmann will always remain the first player to score a Bundesliga goal for Bayer 04 against FC Köln.
He ended his professional playing career at Bayer 04 after the 1983/84 season but did play for the second team for a season as he focused on his work at Bayer AG.
Dear Klaus, I wish you all the best on your 70th birthday. Stay healthy and have a great day!
Michal ‘Katsche’ Kadlec was born in the Czech town of Vyskov on 13 December 1984. At the age of six, he moved to the Pfalz region in Germany with his parents because his father Miroslav accepted an offer from FC Kaiserslautern where he played as a sweeper for the Red Devils for eight years. Katsche learned German in the kindergarten at Kaiserslautern. And he played football at an early age: first as a teenager at SV Alsenborn and then for FC Kaiserslautern.
Show moreHelmut Röhrig was born in Leverkusen on 14.12.19 44. He learned to play football at Bayer 04 and became a Middle Rhine champion with the U19s in 1963 finishing ahead of FC Köln. He played in the second team at the Werkself in his first year in senior football.
Show moreBernd Schuster was born in Augsburg on 22.12.19 59. His first club as a teenager was local side SV Hammerschmiede. From that time there was an anecdote that a former groundsman told us when we had a Pokal game in Augsburg in 1993. Bernd was always the first person on the training ground after school. With a running track around the pitch and goals without nets, the young Bernd practised free kicks and corners in the knowledge that he had to collect the ball himself. In that way he not only practised his technique but also worked on his stamina as a teenager.
Show moreWolfgang ‘Wolle’ Rolff was born on 26.12.1959 in Lamstedt, a community in the Lower Saxony administrative district of Cuxhaven. He started his football career at TSV Lamstedt. He moved on to OSC Bremerhaven with the U17s as he trained to be a retail salesman. He started in senior football at the Nordsee Stadium in Bremerhaven.
Show moreThe 1969/70 season begins with four defeats for Bayer 04. That puts the team coached by Theo Kirchberg bottom of the table. The Werkself only lift themselves out of the relegation zone on Matchday 10 with a 4-2 away win in Marl-Hüls. The position in the table improves over the course of the season.
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