The Bayer team had only been promoted to the second district league six months before and they made a very good start to the season. The club is in second place with nine points out of a possible 14 although they did not always have their best team available. The neighbours from Bensberg are the visitors today and SpVgg Leverkusen 04, as our club was called back then, produce a flawless performance from the start.
The sports editor declares in his article that "it is the unity and determination alone brings the team forward." Furthermore, he hopes "playing the prima donna" has stayed at home as this "not only confuses the concept but is also not only unsporting but also effeminate."
In the end, the right winger scores three, the centre forward and inside right each bag a brace and the left winger and inside left one each in a runaway 9-0 victory – the biggest league match victory in the history of our club. Players names were not listed back then so we unfortunately do not know the line-up used in that historical game.
I don't believe this 9-0 win will be topped but we were close to it in 2000 when our Werkself secured a 9-1 away win at Ulm. And in May 2019, the half-time score at the BayArena was 6-1 against Eintracht Frankfurt. So, you should never say never.
Andrzej Buncol was born in Gleiwitz in Silesia on 21 September 1959. Andrzej started playing football there for the small club Piast Gliwice in the Polish industrial town. At the age of 18 he moved up to the first team where he played for two years. The top-flight Polish club Ruch Chorzow signed the technically gifted midfielder in 1979 for the first team. He immediately gained a regular berth there and made his debut for the Poland team. He played for Poland in all the games at the 1982 World Cup going out to the eventual World Cup winners Italy in the semi-finals. In the third-place play-off, the team led by world-class player Zbigniew Boniek beat France 3-2.
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