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When Duisburg came to the Ulreich-Haberland-Stadion on Matchday 18 and were sent packing with a 2-1 loss thanks to goals from Ulf Kirsten and Christian Wörns, Bayer 04 moved to within a point of Frankfurt after they lost at home to Borussia Mönchengladbach. And since Bayern were also beaten 3-1 in Freiburg at the same time, but Kaiserslautern and Hamburg won their games, the top six were only separated by two points.
Matchday 19 took the Werkself to Munich, where a hard-fought but thoroughly deserved 1-1 draw took Dragoslav Stepanovic’s side into first place after Kaiserslautern (3-1 at Gladbach) and Eintracht (1-0 in Bremen) both lost their games.
In the final game before Christmas, which was Bayer 04’s 500th in the Bundesliga, the opponent was relegation-threatened Wattenscheid.
Wattenscheid went ahead in the 29th minute through Souleyman Sane, the father of current Bayern and former Leverkusen youth player Leroy Sane. However, Kirsten provided an immediate response straight from the restart. It was all looking like the Werkself would go on to win, but a red card for Jens Melzig in the 65th minute meant that both teams were content with a point.
With Kaiserslautern and Frankfurt holding each other to a 1-1 draw, and Bayern and Werder Bremen also drawing against Dynamo Dresden and VfB Leipzig respectively, the Werkself remained top of the Bundesliga. However, only two points separated the leaders and Duisburg down in seventh as Bayer 04 went into the deserved winter break as the 1993 Christmas champions.
Hans Sarpei was born on 28 June 1976 in Tema, Ghana, and came to Germany with his parents at the age of three, where he grew up in Cologne. Even before he was born, his mother and father worked in Hamburg in the import-export sector. There they met an older man who introduced them to German culture and supported them. Out of gratitude, Hans was later given his first name, although this man died before he was born. Hans comes from a sporting family; his older brother Edward and his nephews Hans Nunoo Sarpei and Kingsley Sarpei were or are also professional footballers.
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On 3 June 1953, Hans-Josef (‘Sepp’) Kretschmann became the fifth coach in the history of Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Born in Allenstein, East Prussia, on 21 March 1902, the football coach first studied to become a teacher before later switching to football. He took over the Werkself from Franz Strehle, under whom the team twice managed to stay in the 1st Oberliga West. However, Strehle did not extend his contract in Leverkusen after these two very successful years.
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After promotion to Bundesliga North 2 in the summer of 1975, Bayer 04 are fighting relegation just eight months later. The club expects full commitment from everyone in this precarious situation. Promotion coach Manfred Rummel is to give up his main job as a teacher at the Mülheim special school and become a full-time coach at Bayer 04. The coach, who is very popular with the team, does not see himself in a position to fulfil the club's request. Despite a 2-0 home win against SpVgg Erkenschwick, Manfred Rummel is put on gardening leave by "mutual agreement".
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Bayer 04, already been promoted to the 1st Oberliga West, played friendly after friendly in the second half of May 1951. And that continued throughout the following month.
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Jacek Krzynowek was born on 15 May 1976 in Kamiensk, Poland, and grew up as a typical country boy. He spent his childhood less in structured training sessions and more on simple pitches, where he spent hours playing football with older boys. He realised early on that he had exceptional shooting power and enormous stamina. But for a long time, he didn't appreciate just how much talent he had. While others dream of a great career, professional football initially seems like a distant world to him that he only knows from television.
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