A good defensive performance in the first half gives the Werkself a satisfying 0-0 scoreline against the favourites from the other side of the Rhine. FC Köln, without their star players Hans Schäfer and Jupp Röhrig, are the better team over the whole game but a battling Bayer team opened the scoring through centre forward Fritz Tiede just after the restart. FC Köln reply straightaway. Georg Stollenwerk levels on 53 minutes and then puts his team ahead with two goals to make it 3-1. The Bayer 04 team were not impressed by the hat-trick. Left winger Hans Schultz pulled a goal back. And there are still 15 minutes left to score an equaliser.
Suddenly one attack after the next besieged the Köln goal. Right winger Waldemar Langwagen breaks down the right flank in the last minute and whips in a cross. FC Köln player Stefan Langen tries to clear the ball but to the shock of the Köln team and the unbridled joy of the Leverkusen side he only succeeds in turning the ball into his own net. So, the match ends in a fortunate but not undeserved sharing of the points.
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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