Pokalgeschichte : Bayern Muenchen Gegen Borussia Moenchengladbach

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D.F.B. Pokalfinale 1984 in Frankfurt : Dreizeit Weltmeisterschaftstuermer KARL-HEINZ RUMMENIGGE, der 45 Tore von 95 Laenderspielen fuer Deutschland waehrend seines Laufbahns geschossen hat, spielt sein letztes Spiele fuer Bayern Muenchen Borussia Moenchengladbach. Nach dem Finale, dann wechselt Rummenigge zu dem italienischen Traditionsclub Inter Mailand, der herum 11.0 Millionen deutsche Mark Abloesesumme zahlte. Es gibt nur ein Spieler in der ganzen Welt diesmal, das mehr als Rummenigge gekostet hat.
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D.F.B. POKAL BILANZ : Bayern Munich gegen Borussia Moenchengladbach
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31.05.1984 – Finale … Bayern 1 – Borussia 1 (BAYERN 7-6 Elfmeterschiessen)

08.04.1985 – Halbfinale … BAYERN 1 – Borussia 0 (nach Verlaengerung)

25.10.1987 – 2.Runde … Borussia 2 – Bayern 2 (nach Verlaengerung)
11.11.1987 — 2.Runde … BAYERN 3 – Borussia 2 (nach Verlaengerung)

02.10.1996 – 2.Runde … Borussia 1 – BAYERN 2

31.10.2007 – 2.Runde … BAYERN 3 – Borussia 1

Record-Breaking Night In Bavaria

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Few, if any, in the sell-out crowd of 66,000 Zuschauer filing into the Allianz Arena in the southern German state of Bavaria could have possibly known ahead of the pivotal, second leg match with visiting Swiss side FC Basel that beloved BAYERN MUNICH would go on to set a new club record for largest margin of victory in the history of the UEFA Champions League.
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BAYERN MUNICH — UEFA Champions League
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7-0 …. FC Basel (Switzerland) ………………. 03/13/2012 ….. round of 16

7-1 …. Sporting Lisbon (Portugal) ………… 03/10/2009 …. round of 16

5-0 …. Sporting Lisbon (Portugal) ………… 02/25/2009 …. round of 16

5-1 …. Paris Saint Germain (France) ……… 10/22/1997 ….. group stage
4-0 … 1.FC Kaiserslautern (Germany) …… 03/17/1999 ….. quarterfinal
5-1 …. Spartak Moscow (Russia) …………… 10/17/2001 ….. group stage
4-0 … Ajax Amsterdam (Holland) …………. 09/24/2004 … group stage
5-1 …. FC Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel) ………. 11/23/2004 …. group stage
4-0 … SK Rapid Vienna (Austria) …………… 11/22/2005 …. group stage
4-0 … Spartak Moscow (Russia) ……………. 09/12/2006 …. group stage
4-0 … CFR Cluj (Romania) …………………….. 11/03/2010 …. group stage

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The Startelf for BAYERN MUNICH pose for the traditional team photograph just prior to the club’s record-breaking performance in the UEFA Champions League against visiting Swiss side FC Basel at the sold-out Allianz Arena.

(back row) … Holger BADSTUBER, Manuel NEUER, Toni KROOS, Mario GOMEZ, LUIZ GUSTAVO, Jerome BOATENG

(front row) … David ALABA, captain Philipp LAHM, Arjen ROBBEN, Franck RIBERY, Thomas MUELLER

Bayern Munich : Record Margins In Old European Cup

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West Germany international superstar striker GERD “der Bomber” MUELLER scored 35 goals in 35 European Cup matches for Bayern Munich including a club record five goals against AC Omonia Nicosia of Cyprus in late October of 1972, a match which still to this day sets the Bavarian standard for largest margin of victory in the continent’s preeminent annual football competition.
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BAYERN MUNICH — European Cup of Champions
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9-0 … AC Omonia Nicosia (Cyprus) ……….. 10/24/1972 …. round of 16

6-0 … SK Galatasaray Istanbul (Turkey) … 09/27/1972 …. first round

5-0 … AS Jeuness Esche (Luxembourg) ….. 09/17/1975 …. first round
5-0 … BK Koge (Denmark) …………………….. 09/15/1976 …. first round
5-0 … IF Osters Vaxjo (Sweden) …………….. 09/30/1981 …. first round
5-0 … RSC Anderlecht (Belgium) ……………. 03/04/1987 … quarterfinal

4-0 … AC Omonia Nicosia (Cyprus) ……….. 10/26/1972 …. round of 16
4-0 … Atletico Madrid (Spain) ……………….. 05/17/1974 …. final
5-1 …. Benfica Lisbon (Portugal) ……………. 03/17/1976 ….. quarterfinal
5-1 …. Ajax Amsterdam (Holland) ………….. 10/22/1980 …. round of 16
4-0 … CSKA Sofia (Bulgaria) ………………….. 04/21/1981 …. semi-final
4-0 … CSKA Sofia (Bulgaria) ………………….. 09/16/1987 …. first round
4-0 … FC Apoel Nicosia (Cyprus) …………… 10/03/1990 …. first round
4-0 … CSKA Sofia (Bulgaria) ………………….. 10/23/1990 …. round of 16

Up until the end of the 1990/91 season, the European Cup was conducted strictly with round-by-round elimination based on home-and-away meetings of the various national champions plus the current holder; the tournament was then re-named the UEFA Champions League to start the 1992/93 campaign and, for financial reasons, soon began to expand to allow teams that were not the current domestic title holder in their homeland to enter the most prestiguous competition on the continent.

Best Of Bayern Munich’s Foreign Strike Force

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Brazil international striker GIOVANE ELBER was purchased by Bayern Munich from Swabian rival Vfb Stuttgart in exchange for a transfer fee of 6.5 million Euros in the summer of 1997; the one-time Grasshopper Zurich goal-scorer won four Bundesliga championships, three D.F.B. Pokal titles in addition to a UEFA Champions League crown while totaling 149 goals from 263 appearances in all competitions during his time with the Bavarian powerhouse.
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To properly put into perspective the data revealed with the “Bayern Munich’s Biggest Foreign Flops” piece here previously, a quick review, then, of the most successful imported attackers to ever score goals in the Bundesliga for the record German champions :

92 go … 169 ga …. 7 yrs, 03/04 … Giovane ELBER, Brazil
78 go … 129 ga …. 4 yrs, 06/07 … Roy MAKAAY, Holland
71 go … 174 ga …. 6 yrs, 06/07 … Claudio PIZARRO, Peru

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One more Bundesliga strike will see France World Cup winger FRANCK RIBERY become only the fourth foreign player in the proud history of Bayern Munich to have registered 40 or more goals for the record champions in the German top flight; the 28-year-old winger is also on pace this term to surpass his career best of the 11 goals scored for the Bavarian club during the 2007/08 campaign, Ribery’s first in the Bundesliga.
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39 go … 117 ga ….. 5 yrs, 11/12 …. Franck RIBERY, France
38 go ….. 60 ga …. 3 yrs, 09/10 … Luca TONI, Italy
33 go ….. 50 ga …. 3 yrs, 11/12 …. Arjen ROBBEN, Holland
31 go … 155 ga ….. 8 yrs, 06/07 … Roque SANTA CRUZ, Paraguay
21 go ….. 77 ga ….. 3 yrs, 01/02 … PAULO SERGIO, Brazil
13 go ….. 46 ga ….. 3 yrs, 11/12 …. Ivica OLIC, Croatia

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Holland World Cup winger ARJEN ROBBEN, who currently boasts a better career goal-scoring average for Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga (.660 per contest) than former Brazil international striker and Bavarian Torjaegermeister Giovane Elber (.544 per contest), will be looking to shed his injury woes of the past two seasons and return to form this spring in advance of the approaching 2012 UEFA European Championships.

Bayern Munich’s Biggest Foreign Flops

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‘Score goals or be gone’ — this is, pretty much, what has always been expected of attackers, either homegrown or otherwise, at all powerhouse clubs ever since there has been such a thing as big-time, European professional football.

BAYERN MUNICH were hunting foreign goal-scoring mercenaries well before Sweden World Cup winger CONNY TORSTENSSON was signed from FF Atvidabergs during the Winterpause of the 1973/74 season. Throughout the years, particularly after the Bosman Ruling helped paved the way for the Bundesliga to rescind its long-standing, strict limits on foreign players, many international “stars” have arrived in Bavaria intent on bulging the back of the net for the greater glory of the record German champions. Unfortunately, not all have been able to live up to the traditional standards of excellence as demanded by a proud organization such as Bayern Munich.

The least successful imported players in club history, listed with their career Bundesliga record and the last season contested with Bayern Munich would be as follows :

9 games, 0 goals … 04/05 … Vahid HASHEMIAN, Iran (50 caps, 15 go)
6 games, 0 goals … 08/09 … Landon DONOVAN, United States (138 caps, 46 go)
6 games, 0 goals … 01/02 … Antonio DI SALVO, Italy
2 games, 0 goals … 06/07 … Stefan MAIERHOFER, Austria (19 caps, 1 go)
2 games, 0 goals … 00/01 … Berkant GOKTAN, Turkey
1 games, 0 goals … 06/07 … Louis NGWAT-MAHOP, Cameroon

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United States international striker LANDON DONOVAN, the 29-year-old veteran of three FIFA World Cup final tournaments in his career who has been a standout for the San Jose Earthquakes and Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer, twice failed in attempts to make the grade in German football. Donovan contested seven games and scored no goals for Bayer Leverkusen during the 2004/05 Bundesliga season before joining Bayern Munich on loan to start the New Year in 2009. After six substitutes appearances in the German top flight and another in the D.F.B. Pokal without scoring, Donovan was quickly sent back to Los Angeles by Bayern Munich in early March.
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1 go, 16 ga … 2 yrs, 93/94 … Harald CERNY, Austria (47 caps, 4 go)
3 go, 27 ga … 2 yrs, 95/96 … Jean-Pierre PAPIN, France (54 caps, 30 go)
3 go, 30 ga … 2 yrs, 87/88 … Lars LUNDE, Denmark (2 caps, 0 go)
4 go, 34 ga … 2 yrs, 90/91 … Radmilo MIHAJLOVIC, Yugoslavia (6 caps, 1 go)
6 go, 18 ga …. 1 yrs, 87/88 … Mark HUGHES, Wales (72 caps, 16 go)
6 go, 23 ga …. 1 yrs, 98/99 … Ali DAEI, Iran (149 caps, 109 go)
7 go, 23 ga …. 1 yrs, 88/89 … Johnny EKSTROM, Sweden (47 caps, 14 go)
7 go, 27 ga …. 2 yrs, 95/96 … Emil KOSTADINOV, Bulgaria (70 caps, 27 go)
7 go, 27 ga …. 2 yrs, 05/06 … Paolo GUERRERO, Peru (37 caps, 17 go)

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Approaching 31 years of age, France World Cup striker JEAN-PIERRE PAPIN (right) was already past his peak when joining Bayern Munich in the summer of 1994 on the heels of celebrating the UEFA Champions League crown with Italian megaclub AC Milan, for whom Papin had scored 18 goals in 40 Serie A matches over the course of two seasons following a world record transfer from the contemporary French powerhouse, Olympique Marseille, costing a reported 10.0 million English pounds; plagued by injuries during his time in Bavaria, the two-time French Footballer of the Year totaled six goals from 39 appearances in all compeititons for Bayern Munich and was a member of the UEFA Cup winners in 1996.
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10 go, 40 go … 3 yrs, 91/92 …. Alan MCINALLY, Scotland (8 caps, 3 go)
11 go, 26 ga …. 2 yrs, 94/95 …. Adolfo VALENCIA, Colombia (37 caps, 14 go)
11 go, 49 ga …. 4 yrs, 94/95 … Waldemar MAZINHO, Brazil (10 caps, 2 go)
11 go, 53 ga …. 2 yrs, 91/92 …. Brian LAUDRUP, Denmark (79 caps, 20 go)
11 go, 81 ga …. 4 yrs, 76/77 …. Conny TORSTENSSON, Sweden (40 caps, 7 go)
12 go, 45 ga …. 2 yrs, 97/98 …. Ruggiero RIZZITELLI, Italy (9 caps, 2 go)

Colombia World Cup striker ADOLFO “El Tren” VALENCIA netted eleven goals as Bayern Munich bagged the Bundesliga title his first year in Germany but was soon transferred to Spanish club Atletico Madrid for 2.0 million Euros at the end of August in 1994.

“Er kann heute keinen Satz deutsch” stated Bayern Munich general manager Uli Hoeness to the Berliner Zeitung at the time of the sale, noting that the powerful, 26-year-old Colombian forward known as “the Train”, after one full season in the Bundesliga under his belt, still could not understand even one sentence in the German language.

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Scotland international ALAN MCINALLY, who started up front for Tartan Army supporters in the infamous 1-0 loss to Costa Rica at the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, was bought by Bayern Munich from English First Division side Aston Villa for a transfer fee of 3.3 million Deutsche Mark (1.2 million English pounds) in the summer of 1989. The tall and physical, 26-year-old striker scored 10 goals in 31 Bundesliga games as the Bavarians lifted the Meisterschale to cap off his first term in West German football but lost his place shortly thereafter and would only make nine appearances (with no goals) in the league over the following two seasons. Altogether, McInally managed 13 goals from 55 matches in all competitions for Bayern Munich, including three strikes from twelve contests in the old UEFA European Cup of Champions.

Bayern Und Borussia In Den Winterpause

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West Germany international striker JUPP HEYNCKES (left) had scored 14 goals in 16 domestic matches for Borussia Moenchengladbach entering the exciting, winner-take-all clash with defending Bundesliga champion Bayern Munich and West Germany international goalkeeper SEPP MAIER (1) in the last game before the annual winter break marking the middle of the 1973-74 season.
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Only a second half equalizer from West Germany international superstar GERD MUELLER against Oberligameister Dynamo Dresden at the old Rudolf Harbig Stadion had enabled BAYERN MUNICH to narrowly avoid losing on the away goals rule and barely escape East Germany with hopes of a first-ever European Cup of Champions title still intact. But then, three goals in the final twenty minutes, including a third of the match from the goal-shark Mueller had allowed the Bavarians to overturn an early deficit and shoot down SV Hamburg 4-1 at the Olympiastadion. And a 2-2 draw on the road at Kickers Offenbach meant the defending champions could potentially overtake Eintracht Frankfurt at the top of the Bundesliga table on goal differential with a victory in the 17th and final round before the annual Winterpause in 1973.

Borussia Moenchengladbach, who lost the UEFA Cup Final 3-2 on aggregate to English side FC Liverpool but did win the Deutscher Fussball Bund Pokal in the spring of 1973, had seen off Glasgow Rangers 5-3 on aggregate in the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup recently but were suffering from indifferent form in the Bundesliga as of late. In fact, die Fohlen had dropped three of their last five matches in the West German top flight including the heavy 6-1 loss to Vfb Stuttgart at the end of October. However, approaching the clash with Bayern Munich at the Olympiastadion on December 8, the North Rhine-Westphalian club could also still go top of the Bundesliga table with a win in Bavaria.

And so the stage was properly set. Oddly enough, what might have been promoted as a duel of West German national team goalkeepers instead materialized into an unmitigated shootout immediately. Indeed, no fewer than five ball successfully found the back of the net in the first twenty-three minutes of the match, alone.

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FRANZ ROTH made his Bundesliga debut with Bayern Munich in late August of 1966 and went on to appear in 322 matches while scoring 72 goals for the Bavarian club in the West German top flight thru the end of the 1977/78 season. Known as “Bulle” (bull) for a physical style of play as well as a blistering shot, the native of Memmingen made four appearances for the national team of West Germany in his career. Roth later crossed the border in the Alps region to put in a season with SV Austria Salzburg, who, ironically enough, are now owned by an energy drink manufacturer and are known as Red Bull Salzburg.

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Deployed up on the wing by Bayern Munich, the experienced FRANZ ROTH waltzed around Borussia Moenchengladbach sweeper KLAUS-DIETER SIELOFF, the 31-year-old with 14 caps for West Germany to his name, rather easily to complete a long, solo run. A near post shot snuck past goalkeeper WOLFGANG KLEFF and put the reigning Bundesligameister ahead only four minutes in but this advantage was erased almost instantly after West Germany international midfielder ULI HOENESS just could not reach a pass into the box by Borussia Moenchengladbach midfielder CHRISTIAN KULIK. Thus, visiting team captain HERBERT WIMMER was able to run on and even the score with just five minutes played at the Olympiastadion.

Wimmer was prominent again as Borussia Moenchengladbach took the lead with a well-worked goal in the 18th minute, as well. His precision cross from the right was laid off perfectly by seasoned striker BERND RUPP, the 31-year-old who had scored a goal in Turkey on his one and only appearance for West Germany way back in 1966. Denmark international HENNING JENSEN, whose two goals in Scotland provided die Fohlen the margin of victory in the Cup Winners’ Cup, then whipped the ball between the sticks and past Bayern Munich netminder SEPP MAIER to record his fourth goal of the campaign in the Bundesliga.

But Borussia Moenchengladbach would not remain in front for long, either, after Bayern Munich midfielder BERND DUERNBERGER latched onto a careless pass near the center stripe. A ball chipped into the box found Mueller on the right and more sloppy defending permitted der Bomber to rifle a left-footer into the lower corner with only twenty minutes gone in Bavaria. A Bundesliga-leading 16th goal of the season for the seemingly unstoppable Mueller, then.

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Borussia Moenchengladbach goalkeeper WOLFGANG KLEFF started four consecutive friendlies for the national team of West Germany against the Soviet Union (W 1-0), Austria (W 4-0), France (W 2-1) and Scotland (T 1-1) in the fall of 1973 but, although the native of Schwerte was selected for the 22-man FIFA World Cup squad by trainer Helmut Schoen in 1974, never again appeared for his country thereafter.
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Duernberger was involved once more when Bayern Munich retook the lead just three minutes on, though, as Hoeness delicately kept his right wing cross in bounds at the goalline over on the left and then re-delievered the ball back in front. Bavarian midfielder RAINER ZOBEL rose and got his head on the ball despite the crowd; the resulting, looping header had no trouble beating the ineffective Kleff for a third time in under a half an hour. Surely, the rate of goals could not be sustained.

And it was not — although creative West Germany international sweeper FRANZ BECKENBAUER did prompt a fourth for Bayern Munich with a “dream pass” along the floor into the box for Hoeness four minutes after the hour. Kleff got a hand to the shot but would not prevent the 1972 West German Olympian from netting his ninth goal in the Bundesliga and 12th strike of the season in all competitions for the defending champions. A very important tally, too, as national team constituent RAINER BONHOF pulled a goal back for Borussia Moenchengladbach by blasting a long range effort into the top corner with just two minutes remaining.

Nevertheless, the 4-3 final scoreline was more than enough to push Bayern Munich to the top of the Bundesliga standings with exactly half of the 1973/74 West German football season now complete and the traditional winter break, following the first round of the Deutscher Fussball Bund Pokal, of course, just around the corner.

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Der Kaiser, FRANZ BECKENBAUER of Bayern Munich
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Olympiastadion, Munich
December 8, 1973
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December ’73 – Bayern Munich v Borussia Moenchengladbach

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West Germany international midfielder ULI HOENESS, the 1972 Olympian who finished number two with 17 Bundesliga goals for domestic champion BAYERN MUNICH during the 1972/73 campaign, again stood second on the Bavarian club with eight goals in the West German top flight entering the showdown with 1971 Bundesliga titlist Borussia Moenchengladbach in early December of 1973 at the Olympiastadion in Munich.
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Bundesliga – 17th round ….. December 8, 1973
Olympiastadion, Munich ….. Attendance – 65,000

BAYERN MUNICH
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GK – Sepp MAIER —————————- (West Germany 66-79 : 95 caps)
DF – Franz BECKENBAUER ————- (West Germany 65-77 : 103 caps, 14 go)
DF – Paul BREITNER ———————– (West Germany 71-82 : 48 caps, 10 go)
DF – Georg SCHWARZENBECK ——– (West Germany 71-78 : 44 caps, 0 go)
DF – Johnny HANSEN ———————– (Denmark 65-78 : 45 caps, 3 go)
MF – Bernd DUERNBERGER
MF – Rainer ZOBEL
MF – Uli HOENESS ————————— (West Germany 72-76 : 35 caps, 5 go)
FW – Franz ROTH —————————– (West Germany 67-70 : 4 caps, 0 go)
FW – Gerd MUELLER ———————— (West Germany 66-74 : 62 caps, 68 go)
FW – Erwin HADEWICZ

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West Germany international PAUL BREITNER returned on defense after missing the last seven Bundesliga matches. Denmark international VIGGIO JENSEN, the 26-year-old summer signing from B 1909 Odense, is benched after starting the previous two league contests at left back; versatile 20-year-old BERND DUERNBERGER, who had also been filling in for the injured Breitner, retained a place on the left in midfield. Meanwhile, winger WILHELM HOFFMANN, the 25-year-old who had found the back of the net first in the opening leg of the historic UEFA European Cup of Champions tie with East German Oberligameister Dynamo Dresden, is dropped by Bayern trainer UDO LATTEK after appearing in eight consecutive games in all competitions with the Startelf.

With neither Hoffmann nor EDGAR SCHNEIDER doing much to register goals in the first half of the 1973/74 season, Lattek shifted in-form midfielder FRANZ ROTH up to the front line. The 27-year-old veteran capped four times by West Germany had shot four goals in his last seven Bundesliga matches heading into the big contest with Borussia Moenchengladbach just ahead of the annual Winterpause. And, 22-year-old ERWIN HADEWICZ was restored to the Startelf after coming on as a substitute for Bayern Munich in the last two matches.

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A pair of players in the Startelf when West Germany defeated the Soviet Union to win the Final of the 1972 UEFA European Championships at Brussels, team captain HERBERT WIMMER (left) and prolific striker JUPP HEYNCKES, flank Borussia Moenchengladbach goalkeeper WOLFGANG KLEFF, who made six appearances for the Bundesrepublik Deutschland in his career.
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BORUSSIA MOENCHENGLADBACH
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GK – Wolfgang KLEFF ————— (West Germany 71-73 : 6 caps)
DF – Klaus Dieter SIELOFF ——– (West Germany 64-71 : 14 caps, 5 go)
DF – Dietmar DANNER ————– (West Germany 73-76 : 6 caps, 0 go)
DF – Berti VOGTS ———————- (West Germany 67-78 : 96 caps, 1 go)
DF – Herbert WIMMER ————- (West Germany 68-76 : 36 caps, 4 go)
MF – Christian KULIK
MF – Horst KOEPPEL —————- (West Germany 68-73 : 11 caps, 2 go)
MF – Rainer BONHOF —————- (West Germany 72-81 : 53 caps, 9 go)
FW – Jupp HEYNCKES ————– (West Germany 67-77 : 39 caps, 14 go)
FW – Bernd RUPP ———————- (West Germany 66 : 1 cap, 1 go)
FW – Henning JENSEN ————– (Denmark 72-80 : 21 caps, 9 go)

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Borussia Moenchengladbach and trainer HENNES WEISWEILER were still adjusting to football life without GUENTER NETZER, the West Germany international star midfielder who had been sold to Spanish La Liga giant Real Madrid in the summer of 1973.

The 1972 Bundesliga champion were also sans the emerging 19-year-old ULI STIELIKE, who also eventually went to Real Madrid and later featured at sweeper when West Germany won the 1980 UEFA European Championships in 1980. Stielike had assumed a regular place in the Startelf for Weisweiler after the second round of the Bundesliga but went out injured after the eleventh round in the middle of October. HANS-JUERGEN WITTKAMP, the experienced, 26-year-old former Schalke 04 Gelsenkirchen defender, had not been fit for die Fohlen since the previous spring.

ALLAN SIMONSEN, the youngster whose goal-scoring for Denmark at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games host by Munich had helped land the contract with the North Rhine-Westphalian club, had not yet found the form that would, one day, bring a European Footballer of the Year award and still spent most of his time on the bench for Borussia Moenchengladbach at this point in time.

Herbst ’73 : East Meets West In European Cup (second leg)

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With the official match ball in hand, French referee ROBERT WURTZ leads the two sides out onto the pitch before the capacity crowd at the Dynamo Stadion for the return leg of the historic European Cup meeting between host DYNAMO DRESDEN, captained by East Germany’s 1972 Olympic bronze medalist FRANK GANZERA (far left), and visitng BAYERN MUNICH, skippered by West Germany’s 1972 European Cup of Nations champion FRANZ “der Kaiser” BECKENBAUER (far right).
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The close loss by the minimum margin and three potentially-vital away goals in the bank from the first leg in Bavaria had left Oberligameister DYNAMO DRESDEN with all to play for in the return leg of the historic European Cup tie with Bundesligakoenig BAYERN MUNICH a fortnight later in the Deutsche Demokratische Republik.

Dynamo Dresden trainer WALTER FRITZSCH made no changes to his Startelf from the initial encounter in the Bundesrepublik Deutschland. As for the other side, Bayern Munich were now without the services of winger BERND GERSDORFF, who had been substituted at the half against Dynamo in the first leg and then subsequently transferred back to the club from whom he had arrived in the summer, Eintracht Braunschweig. Inserted into the Bavarian team was seldom-used EDGAR SCHNEIDER, the 24-year-old former 1972 West Germany Olympic squad member who had started just three of Bayern’s first fourteen games in the Bundesliga thus far.

Bayern Munich trainer UDO LATTEK, more importantly, adopted a particular strategy which proved to be most effective — West Germany international superstar striker GERD “der Bomber” MUELLER was instructed to drift back deep into midfield and allow the in-form ULI HOENESS, the West Germany international midfielder who had found the back of the net in both of the Bundesliga shutout victories against Vfb Stuttgart and Vfl Bochum in the Bavarians’ two matches since the first leg against Dynamo in Munich, to move into the space created up front.

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The ploy worked to perfection right away as Mueller’s markers, including the talented but still only 22-year-old libero HANS-JUERGEN DOERNER, were drawn out of position in the center of the Dynamo Dresden defense. Twice within the game’s first dozen minutes, the 21-year-old Hoeness beat his shadow, the 29-year-old veteran EDUARD GEYER, for pace at the back while giving Bayern Munich the quick 2-0 advantage. A tenth goal of the season in all competitions for Bayern Munich by Hoeness also had Dynamo looking directly from the wrong side of a 6-3 aggregate scoreline.

Dynamo Dresden were not in the frame of mind to fold their tent so early in their home city, however, and pulled a goal back from Olympic bronze medalist and East Germany international defender SIEGMAR WAETZLICH three minutes before the halftime whistle. Inside the home side’s dressing room, Geyer is said to have cried like a baby for his mishandling of the situation. But it would be a pair of youngsters, both of whom went on to have great success at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal a few years later, who led the charge with an immeidate second half counterattack for the hosts.

18-year-old midfielder HARTMUT SCHADE finally was able to head the ball into the net following a mad scramble in front seven minutes after the re-start to level the match for Dynamo Dresden and bring the Oberliga club within one on aggregate. Just four minutes later, 21-year-old East Germany international midfielder REINHARD HAEFNER scored again to give the hosts a 3-2 edge for the evening and the all-important, tie-breaking lead by virtue of the away goals rule. And so the socialist David had the capitalist Goliath down but, sadly for the partisan crowd at the Dynamo Stadion, ultimately failed to finish off the Bavarian giant.

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West Germany international striker GERD “der Bomber” MUELLER (13), who scored two critical goals for Bayern Munich in the European Cup of Champions tie with Dynamo Dresden roughly eight months earlier, found his success-rate decline sharply in his second meeting with opposition from the Deutsche Demokratische Republik and could only put a ball off the proverbial woodwork against East Germany in the historic FIFA World Cup match at Hamburg’s Volksparkstadion in late June of 1974.
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Bayern Munich, in fact, responded within a scant 120 seconds after falling behind on aggregate. At the heart of the movement was the two-goal hero Hoeness, who, after, exchanging passes with Mueller, played a ball into the box for Schneider on the left. A last ditch tackle by the Dynamo Dresden defense dispossed the winger, who would not score a goal on any of his ten appearances in either Europe or the Bundesliga for Bayern Munich during the 1973/74 campaign and, after the season, be sent on his way to FC Augsburg.

But the ball fell kindly for the central striker Mueller and the world’s most dangerous Torjaeger at that time quickly swept the ball past advancing Dynamo Dresden goalkeeeper CLAUS BODEN and restored Bayern Munich’s advantage to 7-6 on aggregate.

Another goal from Dynamo Dresden could have sent the match to penalty kicks, as had happened to Bayern Munich in their first round tie with Swedish club FF Atvidabergs. But Lattek’s troops were able to tighten up at the back and survive the final half hour in the German Democratic Republic. And so it, in the end, it was the Bundesligakoenig who were able to outlast the Oberligameister in a back and forth, high-scoring affair over two legs on both sides of the Iron Curtain — but only just.

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The decisive goal of GERD MUELLER (9) for visiting Bayern Munich against host Dynamo Dresden in the second leg at the Dynamo Stadion in Dresden

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November 7, 1973
European Cup of Champions
second round, second leg

3 – DYNAMO DRESDEN ———— Waetzlich 42′, Schade 52′, Haefner 56′
3 – BAYERN MUNICH ————— Hoeness 10′, 12′, Mueller 58′

DYNAMO DRESDEN : Boden; Helm, Doerner, Waetzlich, Ganzera, Haefner, Geyer, Schade (Riedel 78′), Sachse, Heidler, Rau

BAYERN MUNICH : Maier ; Duernberger, Beckenbauer, Schwarzenbeck, Hansen, Zobel, Roth, Hoeness, Schneider, Mueller, Hoffmann

Ins And Outs Of Cold War Football

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West Germany star midfielder ULI HOENESS (14), who netted a skillful goal for the Federal Republic’s side in the 3-2 loss to the German Democratic Republic at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games hosted by Munich, would play a pivotal role for Bundesliga champion Bayern Munich in the second leg of the historic European Cup tie with Oberliga titlist Dynamo Dresden at the Dynamo Stadion in the fall of 1973.
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Union of European Football Association regulations expressly state that the visiting club in a sanctioned competition must arrive in the city in question the day before the match to be contested. Therefore, according to official Stasi reports, a crowd of curiousity-seekers from both sides of the Iron Curtain numbering about four hundred converged on the Dresden’s Hotel Newa in the Deutsche Demokratische Republik hoping to get a glimpse, if not an autograph or other souvenir from West Germany international stars such as sweeper FRANZ “der Kaiser” BECKENBAUER, striker GERD “der Bomber” MUELLER or, perhaps, goalkeeper SEPP MAIER the day before the second round, second leg clash between Bundesligkoenig BAYERN MUNICH and Oberligameister DYNAMO DRESDEN in the European Cup of Champions. All were left disappointed, however, as the expected Bayern team bus never did arrive in the city often referred to as the “Florence on the Elbe” until about 2:30 in the afternoon the next day, only a few hours before kickoff.

The truth was the Bayern team bus had stopped overnight in northern Bavaria on the fringe of the East German border before finishing the trip to Saxony for the second leg in the D.D.R. the next morning. The official explanation offered by Bayern, if rather flimsy at best, revolved around the difference in altitude. It was cited that the Alpine city in West Germany was 500 meters above sea level whereas Dresden was only 106 meters in comparison.

Years later, it was revealed that the real reason for the late arrival of Bayern Munich for the second leg with Dynamo Dresden was centered around suspicions of a more classic Cold War nature. A few years prior to the famous European Cup tie between Bayern and Dresden in 1973, highly-competent Western teams had experienced trouble with diarrhea and other sickness during a UEFA youth tournament staged in Leipzig. Two players who had been directly affected at that time were none other than Bayern Munich’s very own, by-now West Germany senior internationals PAUL BREITNER and ULI HOENESS; aside from the concerns about the food in Leipzig, there were further worries that hotel quarters and meeting rooms had been equipped with electronic listening devices.

European Cup Historical Perspectives

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With some of the empty seats easily recognizable in the background, youthful West Germany international star midfielder ULI HOENESS of Bayern Munich seeks to dribble away from his Dynamo Dresden shadow EDUARD GEYER (4), the 29-year-old veteran who was later serving as the national team trainer of East Germany when the Berlin Wall symbolically fell in the fall of 1989, during the historic first leg of the European Cup of Champions tie at Munich’s Olympiastadion in late October of 1973.
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Strange by contemporary standards in Bavaria nowadays, but a crowd of ‘only’ 50,000 had shown up for the first leg at the Olympiastadion in Munich to witness the very first all-Deutschland duel between West German titlist BAYERN MUNICH and visiting East German champion DYNAMO DRESDEN in the second round of Europe’s premier football competition — this a full 30,000 shy of the total that had turned out to see the Olympic battle between the Bundesrepublik Deutschland and the Deutsche Demokratische Republik in the very same stadium at the 1972 Munich Summer Games just thirteen months earlier.

It should be remembered that, at this point in time of the club history, Bayern Munich had still ‘only’ won three domestic crowns in the Bundesliga and had never lifted the prestigous European Cup. As a matter of fact, local supporters of cross-town rivals TSV 1860 Munich took full advantage of ticket availability as well as great delight in singing along to the “Dynamo” song with the one thousand visitors from the D.D.R. (all of whom had first successfully passed a strict government screening procedure in order to obtain the necessary permission) at the Olympiastadion. Sometimes, in the highly-competitive world of professional football, there is just no place for political ideology and/or nationalistic loyalty.

It is also interesting to recall that the passionate, football-loving people of Dresden were, at that time, not free to descend en masse on the city of Munich and swallow up any remaining match tickets, as is certain what would have happened had ordinary citizens of that East German city the simple freedom to travel outside their country to the West; as it was, the 1,000 Dynamo supporters who did appear at the Olympiastadion for the match with Bayern Munich had all been part of a detailed and elaborate plan code named “Aktion Vorstoss” (Action Raid) implemented by the German Democratic Republic’s Ministry for State Security.

Selling out the second leg of this landmark European Cup tie a couple of weeks later behind the Iron Curtain was never going to be anything even remotely resembling a problem, but that would be another story.