What happened on March 23rd in the “House of Football”?
In 1968 there is still no goal of the year, the ARD sports show only introduced this choice in 1971. In Karlsruhe it falls anyway, as the observers of the otherwise dreary kick between KSC and Eintracht Frankfurt (0: 1) agree. Guest striker Heiko Racky runs the ball in a full sprint near the corner flag and spins it at full speed into the KSC goal. For him it’s the goal of life, that’s all he shoots in his short Bundesliga career.
In 1974: It is well known that Wolfgang Overath is a sensitive player. In contrast to the cool Günter Netzer, his rival for the jersey with the number 10 in the national team. In the days leading up to the 1974 World Cup, football fans were fighting against Netzer, who was playing in Madrid, in the eternal playmaker question of those days. This becomes particularly clear on this day in the Munich Olympic Stadium, where Overath is systematically whistled and can be exchanged unnerved. On the way back from the 1: 4 bankruptcy of his Cologne team at Bayern, he decides not to participate in the World Cup. Provisionally…
In 1985: When Bayern Munich played at Waldhof Mannheim, nobody hurts the other, the audience saw a disappointing 0-0. There is still one injured person and that is strange: Referee Robert Walz (Waiblingen) tears his Achilles tendon, after only 25 minutes he has to be replaced and replaced by his linesman Siegfried Bauer. The sports journalist is actually with the Südwestpresse Ulm and writes about football games himself on the weekend, now everyone is writing about him. For the kicker he is the “man of the day”. Others shine on this 24th matchday in 1984/85: Gladbach’s defender Michael Frontzeck, for example, who begins and ends the goal festival against Kaiserslautern (7-0). At least character shows Karlsruhe coach Werner Olk, who resigns after the 2: 5 in Bochum. Frankfurt’s trainer Dietrich Weise also shows attitude, his colleague Otto Rehhagel announces his friendship after Eintracht’s 3-1 home defeat: “Otto, you don’t need to come to me anymore, the friendship is over for good.” Reason: “The people will really upset the way you mess around on the outside line. “
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In 1990: The meaning of the game is never more questioned than on matchday 26, 1989/90. As is well known, there are two goals on every football field that the ball has to enter, but ten teams are not able to do that this time. Four games ended 0-0, in the seven games on Saturday only four and a total of a ridiculous eleven goals – a negative record set in 57 Bundesliga years. In addition, there has been no home win for only the second time since 1963. (Most of the games were on March 24th.)
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