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Bayer 04 Leverkusen are in fourth place on 35 points just three points behind VfB Stuttgart. However, there is a lot of pressure under the Bayer Cross as the general manager Reiner Calmund is threatening wage cuts for the first time. The club has financial problems and not qualifying for the Champions League threatens the Werkself players with losing up to 20% of their wages. Not the best circumstances for playing a good game at Hannover. And those fears are confirmed.
Hannover look like the certain winners after 60 minutes. The Lower Saxony team lead 2-0 with goals from the American Clint Mathis and the Greek Kostas Konstantinidis. The Werkself produced almost nothing up to that point. Coach Klaus Augenthaler brings on the Brazilian Franca on 57 minutes in place of Bernd Schneider and that gives the team a lift. After a free kick and an assist from Lucio, Dimitar Berbatov pulls a goal back with a header on 65 minutes. Franca then nets the equaliser eight minutes later. Bayer 04 win the ball back again after the kick-off and Oliver Neuville hits the bar from the edge of the box. The Werkself almost turned round a supposedly lost game in ten minutes. The visitors upped the tempo in the last 20 minutes, are denied by the bar again and several times by the Hannover goalkeeper, Marc Ziegler. The game ends in a 2-2 draw.
Bayer 04 qualify for the Champions League at the end of the season in third place but general manager Reiner Calmund ends working for the club at his own request at the end of the season. He departs after almost 30 years in different posts at Bayer 04 and there are one or two tears in his eyes as well as those of the Bayer 04 fans.
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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