Promotion coach Manfred Rummel is expected to give up his main profession as a teacher with civil service status at the special school in Mülheim to become the full-time coach at Bayer 04. However, the very popular coach feels unable to meet the demands of the club. In spite of a 2-0 win in the home game against SpVgg Erkenschwick, Manfred Rummel is sent on gardening leave by "mutual agreement."
The Yugoslav Radoslav Momirski Is appointed as his successor with a contract to the end of the season. He starts in Berlin with a 1-0 defeat against bottom club Spandauer SV. The situation at Bayer 04 does not improve by the end of March – Momirski is sacked after three defeats in succession.
A new man takes over the helm under the Bayer Cross on 5 April 1976: Willibert Kremer. He makes a winning start with a 2-1 home win against Westfalia Herne. The rest is history.
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.
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The 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.
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Torben 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.
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Thomas ‘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.
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Manfred ‘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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