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The scouts at Borussia Mönchengladbach spotted the 20-year-old playing in an amateur international against Austria and they brought him to the Bökelberg, first as an amateur and then professional player. He was not a regular first choice but he did play twice in the Bundesliga and twice in the UEFA Cup and he won the German league title and the UEFA Cup with Borussia in 1975. After two years, where he was mostly on the bench, he wanted to play more regularly so he made contact with Bayer 04 Leverkusen. He signed for the newly promoted club to the Bundesliga Two North and he went on to play 141 times for the Werkself scoring two goals along the way. He was promoted to the Bundesliga with Bayer 04 in 1979.
And he held his own there. The striker had been converted into a central defender at Mönchengladbach and he played regularly for the Bayer team up to 1984. He stood out with his calm, relaxed and, above all, fair style of play. He was never shown a red card in 134 Bundesliga matches and only picked up nine yellows.
The trained electrician feels at home in his workplace at the Bayer works. Walla worked as a communications engineer during his playing career. After he stopped playing he went full-time at Bayer AG and trained sporadically with one or the other amateur clubs such as SV Wesseling, VfL Rheinbach and SW Stotzheim.
Walla is now 70. Many happy returns. Stay healthy and have a good one.
In this video you can watch impressive and important goals in the history of Bayer 04 in the month of October. It is not always about the beauty of the goals but also about remembering special games and players.
Show moreThe Werkself secured victory against Bayern Munich for the first time on 1 November 1986. On matchday 12, Bayer 04 beat the Bundesliga league leaders 3-0 at the Olympic Stadium in Munich and go top of the table.
Show moreTorben Hoffman was born in Kiel on 27 October 1974. In his youth he played for TuS Schwarz-Weiß Elmschershagen. The qualified policeman joined Holstein Kiel in 1993. Two years later he moved on to VfB Lübeck in Bundesliga two. After relegation with Lübeck in 1997 he came to attention of SC Freiburg and they signed the defender. The team relegated from the Bundesliga went straight back up with Torben who moved under the Bayer Cross in 1999 after another year in the Bundesliga. However, he was unable to establish himself at Leverkusen making only sporadic appearances and he was rarely in the starting XI. He played in a total of 30 games for the Werkself.
Show moreThomas ‘Thommy’ Reichenberger was born in Bad Kreuznach on 14 October 1974. The son of a former Bundesliga player – his father Max made 38 Bundesliga appearances for 1860 Munich – played for Eintracht Bad Kreuznach as a youth player before moving up to the first team.
Show moreManfred ‘Manni’ Pomp was born in Aachen on 25 October 1964. His first football club was the Aachen police sports club (PSV) but he signed for Alemannia Aachen after a year.
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