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He played for the Westphalian team in the Verbandsliga for three years before joining the Fortuna Düsseldorf Reserves. The long-haired midfielder attracted the attention of Bayer 04 primarily in matches for Westphalian and Lower Rhine reserve teams. His giant strides and burst of pace across the pitch impressed the Bayer 04 management and they signed the 21-year-old for the 1975/76 season. Ziegler went on to make 137 appearances in the next four years in the Bundesliga 2 North scoring 17 goals along the way. He made 27 appearances and scored three goals in the promotion year of 1979. However, promotion cost him his regular start in the team. In the second Bundesliga season at Bayer 04, he decided to move on to Bundesliga 2 South to join Freiburg FC. Norbert Ziegler finished in tenth place with the team from Baden. At the end of of his career in the 1981/82 season he returned to western Germany to play for Viktoria Köln.
Seven years later in 1989, managing director Reiner Calmund brought him back to Bayer 04 Leverkusen. This time Ziegler was the head scout of the club. He is considered to be one of the pioneers in scouting and he worked with an internal database on computer. Norbert Ziegler played a large part in the following years in the signing of players like Ulf Kirsten, Jorginho, Lucio, Ze Roberto, Simon Rolfes, Stefan Kießling and Lars Bender, to name just a few. He had a burnout in November 2011 and retired in March 2012 at the age of 57.
Dear Norbert, I wish you many happy returns on your 70th. Stay fit and healthy and enjoy your birthday.
Bernd Schneider, born in Jena on 17 November 1973, spent his early years in the German Democratic Republic. He took his first steps in football at the two Jena clubs BSG Aufbau and FC Carl Zeiss, the biggest club in his hometown. He played in the second division for six years in the 90s. Bernd Schneider stood out as an accomplished dribbler with his experience from street football always evident. His nickname Schnix comes from the Thuringian dialect: ‘Schnixeln’ is a synonym for dribbling, being able to control the ball. After Jena were relegated in 1998, Schnix went in the opposite direction. Newly promoted Eintracht Frankfurt brought into the Bundesliga. He spent a year there.
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18 June 1950 saw a friendly match for FC Köln, formed from the merger of two clubs in February 1948, against the Werkself at the Stadion Am Stadtpark. The two teams had already faced each other in May 1949 as winners of the Rhine district leagues in the final for promotion to the Oberliga West. The new club from Cologne came out on top in the two games and were promoted.
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In a messed-up season in 1984/85 everybody is happy that the battle against relegation is over before the final matchday. The visitors are UEFA Cup contenders SV Waldhof Mannheim in front of a sparse 6,000 spectators at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium. The Waldhof lads under their coach Klaus Schlappner are the surprise packet of the season. In their second campaign in the Bundesliga, the team from Mannheim are fifth on 35 points (with two points for a win back then) ahead of the game in Leverkusen and in a UEFA Cup qualifying spot. Two points behind them are Bayer 05 Uerdingen and Hamburg SV.
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Tranquillo Barnetta was born in St. Gallen in Switzerland on 22 May 1985. Quillo, as he was called in the football world, has Italian roots. His great-grandfather emigrated from Italy to the east of Switzerland. Quillo was interested in football early on and he played for the St. Gallen club FC Rotmonten from the age of six. He joined his favourite club FC St. Gallen at the age of 11. There he became a youth international. He won the European Championships with his teammates in the Switzerland U17 team in 2002. The youngsters from Switzerland beat France 4-2 on penalties in the final to become U17 European champions.
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Since the establishment of the Bundesliga on 28 July 1962 for the 1963/64 season, there have been five Regional Leagues: North, Berlin, West, South-west and South. The champions of those five leagues qualified directly for promotion play-offs that were played in two groups of four teams. That included the two second-placed teams in the West and South-west Regional Leagues. The two runners-up from the North and the South played a qualifier for the eighth place in the promotion games.
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