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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.
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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In this video you can watch impressive and important goals in the history of Bayer 04 in the month of May. It is not always about the beauty of the goals but also about remembering special games and players.
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There were high summer temperatures in Leverkusen on 25 May 1985. Matchday 32 brings FC Köln to the Ulrich Haberland Stadium with only 13,000 spectators at the derby. That is primarily due to the Werkself with Bayer 04 rarely impressing in that season and they are eleventh in the table before the game just three points ahead of sixteenth, the play-off spot. But with the two points for a win rule back then – two points were awarded for a win – and with the significantly better goal difference, the Werkself need every point to get out of trouble.
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It was all or nothing on the final matchday in the Verbandsliga in the 1974/75 season. Only now would it be decided who were champions and thereby participate in the promotion games to the Bundesliga 2 North. The earlier rivals Viktoria Köln, SC Jülich 10 and Bonner SC have fallen by the wayside.
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