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Sure, there is this satirical, loving mod, protected by trademark law: Vizekusen. The club owes it to Christoph Daum’s three runner-up titles at the end of the century. But before Leverkusen became champions for the first time (which they have never been yet …), they reached the final of the Champions League. And I lost it… After all, it was enough to win two titles: the UEFA Cup in 1988 and the German Cup in 1993.
“A big but family club”
However: Leverkusen was never able to completely get rid of the gray mouse image. That’s a bit of a stretch. But a feat would do you good, so that the recognition is greater, ”says Tranquillo Barnetta (35), who moved to Werkself at age 19 and then extended his bones to Bayer for seven seasons. “It is a great club, but it is still familiar. It’s Bundesliga, that’s why there is pressure. But the really big pressure in this metropolitan area is more in Cologne and Gladbach. Even with the second division in Düsseldorf it is bigger. That’s why the club is great for guys like me back then. You have time to develop. “Also in the media. Barnetta recalls that 1. FC Köln was the dominant subject in the newspapers even when Leverkusen were playing for the title.” On the one hand, it is good to be able to work in peace. On the other hand , maybe the last pressure is missing to finally be enough. ” “Quillo”, who appeared 229 times for the pill club, was also runner-up in 2011 …
Contact with Rolfes and Kiessling
Barnetta no longer has a good friend of seven years in Leverkusen. But he stayed in touch with his former teammates Simon Rolfes, who is now the sporting director, and 04 legend and honorary captain Stefan Kiessling, who acts as a management consultant.
Some stats: Bayer have won both of their home games against Swiss teams: 1-0 against FCZ 2018 and 3-1 against Sion in 2006. YB, meanwhile, have never won in Germany. After all, there were three draws in six games. However, all in the 1950s. The last appearance ended in a debacle: 1: 6 at Borussia Mönchengladbach 2016.
From YB’s point of view, Barnetta also regrets that the result could not be improved further. “Because Leverkusen will never present as weakly as in the first half.”
What should YB coach Gerry Seoane’s master plan look like for the game at BayArena? «YB must try to put pressure on Leverkusen again. Because Peter Bosz’s men no longer have the self-assurance they had in the fall. “
Apropos Bosz: He sank his own team after 3: 4 and also himself, because he emphatically pointed out that he was responsible for how the players entered the game. “He was really eaten up,” says Barnetta. The insider also thinks he knows why: “He will have warned the team countless times about YB’s strengths. But that did not fall entirely with the players. It is always like this in Germany. The Germans still take the Swiss a bit lightly in football. “
Will Bosz’s warnings reach players this time?
Also in the return? I don’t want to make YB small. Not a bit! They have incredible qualities and almost always score a goal. But it will be narrow, ”says Barnetta. Only if coach Bosz’s warnings not to underestimate the Swiss champion again don’t reach his players, will YB have a chance. “But after the painful experience in Bern, that will hardly happen again,” Barnetta believes. Then Bayer would be preferable.
YB-Seoane against Leverkusen: “I take note of the Gladbach rumors”(02:33)
Bayer Leverkusen. Pill Club. Werkself. A retort product like RB Leipzig? What seems difficult at first glance is not difficult at second glance. Bayer is a club with a long tradition and is as old as Schalke and SC Freiburg, for example. It was founded in 1904 as a company sports club with the beautiful name “Turn- und Spielverein der Farbenfabriken, formerly Friedrich Bayer & Co.” founded. They were employees of the Bayer paints and chemicals company, founded in 1863, who got everything going in 1903.
The two employees Wilhelm Hauschild, long-time district administrator of Wuppertaler Turngau, and August Kuhlmann, male gymnastics supervisor of the Sonnborn gymnastics club, asked the “gentlemen office and labor officials” in an open letter for support in founding a company gym club. 170 employees expressed interest in joining. The bosses were on fire over the matter and immediately built a gym. D.
Even because gymnastics is performed by exercise, that is, military, the enthusiasm among the young is not excessive. And now the ball begins to roll. In 1907, five initiators and eleven like-minded people brought the TuS 04 football team to life. You will receive the nod from the gymnast on the condition that you participate in the weekly gymnastics night. The football club is founded.
Leverkusen may still have the Bayer Group logo as the club logo and the company name in the official club name. Although this is fundamentally prohibited by the Uefa and the DFB. Therefore, Leipzig is not officially called Red Bull, but grass ball … Bayer, on the other hand, can do so because both the name and the logo were already in existence when the ban went into effect. The same also applies to VW and VfL Wolfsburg, which was founded in 1945. (battery)
