It is matchday 13 in the 1991/92 season. Bayer 04 are away to the reigning champions of Germany FC Kaiserslautern on 12 October. The Werkself are battling to take over top spot in the table in the usual heated atmosphere at the Betzenberg Stadium. The match ended in a 2-1 defeat after Andreas Thom appeared to have made it 2-1 to Bayer 04 in the second half but the strike was ruled out due to handball or offside – the decision was never really explained in full.
Marcus Feinbier was the first player in the history of Bayer 04 to be sent off for two yellow card offences albeit they would probably not have been shown in any of the stadium. And because a match at Kaiserslautern at the start of the 1990s usually lasted as long as it took for the Red Devils to win, the winning goal for the side from the Palatinate came in added time.
The video shows you highlights of this match with its historic event.
Willi Korth was born in Essen on 12 April 1955. He was a youth player at TuS Essen 81. After coming to the attention of Schwarz Weiss Essen, he signed for them in the Bundesliga 2 North for the 1977/78 season. He made 24 appearances and scored one goal. The Black and Whites from Essen were relegated at the end of the season.
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Rudolf ‘Rudi’ Völler was born in Hanau on 13 April 1960. His father took the young Rudi as an eight-year-old to training at TSV 1860 Hanau. In the sedate Hessen town on the Main he came to the attention of Offenbach Kickers. But Rudi completed his secondary school and started training to become an office administrator.
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Jean Pierre de Keyser was born in Cologne on 13 April 1965 as the son of a Belgian NATO soldier stationed in Spich and a German mother. His childhood dream of becoming a vet was resolutely followed at school initially. But football threw a spanner in the works.
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The third last matchday in the 1954/55 season brings a big showdown at the Stadion Am Stadtpark – the Werkself entertain second-placed SV Sodingen. A win for Bayer 04 would take them above Sodingen and qualify for the finals of the German championship if the last two games of the season in the Oberliga West 1 are also won.
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In this video you can watch impressive and important goals in the history of Bayer 04 in the month of April. It is not always about the beauty of the goals but also about remembering special games and players.
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