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Fischi was kept back in class ten, his father took him out of the school and gave him the choice: apprenticeship as a bricklayer, saddler or carpenter. As he knew nothing about the first two careers he became a carpenter and work for three years after completing his apprenticeship.
In 1982/83 he signed for Preußen Münster in the Oberliga Westfalen. From there he moved on to Remscheid. Fischi played for BVL 08 Remscheid in Bundesliga two in 1987/88, got relegated with his club and then shone with outstanding performances in the amateur Oberliga Westfalen.
Andreas came under the Bayer Cross at the age of 24, established himself and stayed for the next five years as right back at the Werkself. His biggest honour during his time at Bayer 04 was winning the DFB Pokal in 1993.
His personal highlight came on 7 December 1991. In the Bundesliga home game against bottom-of-the-table Wattenscheid 09, Fischi scored three goals and he is the only defensive player in our Bundesliga history to achieve that feat. As Ulf Kirsten, goal-getter of the 1990s, scored twice with Jupp Nehl adding another, Bayer 04 clocked up a 6-1 victory, the biggest win in the Bundesliga up to that point.
On the pitch, Fischi was more of a worker rather than a magician as his determination brought him to where he always dreamt of as a child – to the Bundesliga.
After a total of 179 games for the Werkself, scoring 20 goals along the way, Fischi moved north in 1994 to play for Hamburg SV. There he played in the top-flight for another seven years before ending his career with the year in the Regional League West at Rot-Weiss Essen.
After his playing career, tried out being a coach in 2003/04 but only stayed at SC Verl for a season. After that he searched for a career thought about his own carpentry business. But he's put off by the high cost of setting it up. So he makes a complete change. He completed training as a coolingand ventilation engineer, passed the examination for the master's certificate in 2009 and set up his own company.
Today, the father of four children from his first marriage minutes north of Hamburg, lives on a farm where he breeds ponies with his second wife Katrin.
Dear Fischi, I wish you many happy returns on your 60th birthday! Stay fit and healthy and have a good one!
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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