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After three years, he joined the newly promoted Rot-Weiss Essen in the Bundesliga and he became the number one in the Rückrunde but he was unable to prevent immediate relegation for the Westphalian team. He often crossed swords with Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the Regional League West and gained promotion to the Bundesliga with Rot-Weiss Essen in 1969 but was relegated again two years later. He joined relegated Kickers Offenbach in 1971 and played for the club for a season in the Regional League South before spending four years in the Bundesliga following immediate promotion.
In 1975, at the age of 32, Fred Bockholt signed for Leverkusen. The Werkself had just been promoted to the second Bundesliga North after two years in the third tier. With his experiences and good performances, Fredy played a big part in us staying up. With the exception of a few games, he was the number one under the Bayer Cross from 1975 up to ending his playing career in 1981. The highlight in his time is promotion to the Bundesliga with Bayer 04 in 1979.
After hanging up his boots, he started working as a teacher of maths and sport at the mining college in Duisburg but continues with football as a coach. He becomes the reserve and goalkeeping coach in Leverkusen and that includes training me in my first two years at Leverkusen and he was very successful primarily on improving my technique as a goalkeeper. Later he went on to coach several amateur clubs such as Preußen Krefeld, Schwarz-Weiß Essen and Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. Due to his teaching, he never had the ambition to work with professional teams.
Dear Fredy, thank you for working with me and enjoy your 80th birthday. Many happy returns and stay fit and healthy. All the best!
Michal ‘Katsche’ Kadlec was born in the Czech town of Vyskov on 13 December 1984. At the age of six, he moved to the Pfalz region in Germany with his parents because his father Miroslav accepted an offer from FC Kaiserslautern where he played as a sweeper for the Red Devils for eight years. Katsche learned German in the kindergarten at Kaiserslautern. And he played football at an early age: first as a teenager at SV Alsenborn and then for FC Kaiserslautern.
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Helmut Röhrig was born in Leverkusen on 14.12.19 44. He learned to play football at Bayer 04 and became a Middle Rhine champion with the U19s in 1963 finishing ahead of FC Köln. He played in the second team at the Werkself in his first year in senior football.
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Bernd Schuster was born in Augsburg on 22.12.19 59. His first club as a teenager was local side SV Hammerschmiede. From that time there was an anecdote that a former groundsman told us when we had a Pokal game in Augsburg in 1993. Bernd was always the first person on the training ground after school. With a running track around the pitch and goals without nets, the young Bernd practised free kicks and corners in the knowledge that he had to collect the ball himself. In that way he not only practised his technique but also worked on his stamina as a teenager.
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Wolfgang ‘Wolle’ Rolff was born on 26.12.1959 in Lamstedt, a community in the Lower Saxony administrative district of Cuxhaven. He started his football career at TSV Lamstedt. He moved on to OSC Bremerhaven with the U17s as he trained to be a retail salesman. He started in senior football at the Nordsee Stadium in Bremerhaven.
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The 1969/70 season begins with four defeats for Bayer 04. That puts the team coached by Theo Kirchberg bottom of the table. The Werkself only lift themselves out of the relegation zone on Matchday 10 with a 4-2 away win in Marl-Hüls. The position in the table improves over the course of the season.
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