On the third matchday of the 1994/95 season, Rudi Völler returned to the Bundesliga as a player for Bayer Leverkusen. And immediately did what he does best: scoring goals. In our “Today before” section, we look back on a perfect Sunday in August for “Rudi Nazionale”.
A long-time spectator on his return to the Bundesliga: Rudi Völler (2nd from left). imago sportfotodienst
The Leverkusen fans in the Ulrich Haberland Stadium were already in a celebratory mood on Sunday evening, August 28, 1994. The Werkself were already 3-0 up against Eintracht Frankfurt, and the first point of the new season was safe. But when the stadium announcer announced the first Bayer substitution in the 73rd minute, the mood became even more exuberant: Rudi Völler came on for Ulf Kirsten, playing his first Bundesliga game in almost seven years and his 171st overall. Up to this point, Völler had scored 106 Bundesliga goals for Werder Bremen and TSV 1860 Munich before moving abroad to AS Roma and then to Olympique Marseille.
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