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When we meet up for the final pre-match training session on Saturday, 27 August 1994, Rudi Völler is actually sat in our changing room next to me. He does the training session and travels to the training camp with us.
The next day at the team meeting, coach Dragoslav Stepanovic did not name him in the starting line-up with Rudi starting on the bench. The opponents on that Sunday were Eintracht Frankfurt who had just drawn twice.
If you look at our line-up then it appears to be very attacking:
Rüdiger Vollborn in goal. A back four of Christian Wörns, Jens Melzig, Ioan Lupescu and Markus Happe. In holding midfield Tom Dooley plays just ahead of the playmaker Bernd Schuster. Hans-Peter Lehnhoff is on the right wing and Paulo Sergio on the left and up front are Andreas Thom and Ulf Kirsten.
Bernd Schuster scored one of his three wonder goals in 1994 on 60 minutes. His shot from 50 metres out was waiting to happen – Bernd noticed before the game that Frankfurt keeper Andreas Köpke was standing far out of his goal and that he would try a long-range effort – is voted Goal of the Season in 1994. The second goal comes before half-time from a corner taken by Bernd Schuster. Markus Happe flicked it on from the near post and Ulf Kirsten volleyed the ball into the roof of the net.
Eintracht Frankfurt player Kakhaber Tskhadadze was sent off for a second yellow card offence on 57 minutes and Paolo Sergio sealed the win nine minutes later. The celebrating Bayer 04 fans increased their support further when Rudi Völler comes off the bench on 73 minutes to replace Ulf Kirsten. And the Ulrich Haberland Stadium goes wild on 90 minutes. A cross from Hans-Peter Lehnhoff is turned into the Frankfurt net by Rudi Völler to make it 4-0. The debut for the 1990 World Cup winner was a big success.
Bayer 04 started the new season on 20 July 1950. To the applause from almost 2,000 spectators, the Werkself stepped onto the pitch at the Am Stadtpark stadium and the season target was clear to the supporters: finally achieve promotion to the Oberliga West. Under the direction of new coach Raymond Schwab, who brought one of his Essen players with him in the shape of Karl-Heinz Spikofski, the team did a couple of laps. Coach Schwab gave a speech in front of all the fans where he clearly imparted his request for calm in the stands and he said he hated nothing more than heckling or laughing when mistakes are made. He hoped the Bayer 04 supporters would follow his advice.
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Horst Knauf was born in Cologne on 16 August 1960. As a teenager he played for PSV Köln before signing for the Bayer 04 Leverkusen U19s as a talented midfielder in 1976. He made the move up from the second team to the Bundesliga squad in 1980. Over the following three years he played 39 Bundesliga games and scored two goals. Above all in the difficult 1981/82 season for the Werkself with the play-off games against Kickers Offenbach, he played a big part in saving Bayer 04 with 21 appearances. But under the new coach Dettmar Cramer he rarely made a start and he decided to move on.
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Holger Aden was born in Hamburg on 25 August 1965. He learned all about playing football and, above all, scoring goals at the two Hamburg clubs Niendorfer TSV and TSV DuWo 08 Hamburg. After progression from the youth teams, he played for other Hamburg clubs. One after the other he appeared for Concordia Hamburg, Altona 93 and SC Norderstedt. The centre-forward regularly found the back of the opposition net. He scored 22 goals for SC Norderstedt in the 1988/89 season.
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Michael Ballack was born in Görlitz in the GDR on 26 September 1976. He displayed his talent for football at a young age. After his family moved to Karl-Marx-Stadt, now called Chemnitz, he started playing for BSG Motor ‘Fritz Heckert’ Karl-Marx-Stadt where he constantly continued to develop his ability on the pitch. From year seven he went to the children and youth sports college and there he received systematic support in sport that led, against the background of his increasing ability, to a move to FC Karl-Marx-Stadt. At the age of 16, he had to take a six-month break due to growing pains, but then there was no stopping Michael after that.
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In this video you can watch impressive and important goals in the history of Bayer 04 in the month of August. It is not always about the beauty of the goals but also about remembering special games and players.
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