a few weeks Ago, has looked to the past for BVB in the past. It was a sad day for the Dortmund football, not only because of the three late goals which enabled the guests from Hoffenheim 3:3. They had previously held in the Westfalen stadium, a minute’s silence and black armbands played, both in honor of the recently deceased Rudi Assauer. This was to the General public as the makers of the favorite enemy Schalke 04, but the Dortmund fans adored him until the very last as one of their own.
Rudi Assauer has played with Dortmund in the Bundesliga and, together with Reinhard Libuda, the second black-and-yellow Schalke, the first European Cup for Germany won. In 1966, that was when it went in Glasgow’s Hampden Park against Liverpool. At the time, still in the European Cup winners ‘ Cup, but the Liverpool had just become Champions of England and the Dortmund Second in the Bundesliga, was this Franco-English summit as something of a perceived Champions League. With the better end for Dortmund.
Liverpool’s coach asked: “Who is Dortmund?”
It’s 53 years may believe later on no one so right, when on Tuesday Tottenham Hotspur has appeared in the Westfalen stadium, one of three duels between Bundesliga and Premier League in the first knockout round of the Champions League. Also in 1966, was a German-English football-the year, not only because of the world Cup, with its famous Finale, and the even more famous “Wembley goal”. In the semi-final, Dortmund had to fight a duel with a seemingly all-powerful enemy from the island. West Ham United had won the year before the Cup and offered the later world champion Bobby Moore, Martin Peters and Geoff Hurst. Dortmund won 2:1 in the first leg at Upton Park and 3:1 in the return match in the stadium Red earth. And yet, the just for the English Champions crowned Liverpool FC felt as a clear favorite. Coach Bill Shankly gave the direction in front of sentences like this: “I only know two good English teams: our first team and our reserves!” Or: “Who is Dortmund?”
The final was of the external circumstances, it is a rather sad state of Affairs. Of the 150 000 spectators at the end of Hampden Park was not filled to one-third, and soaked duration not to rain on the grass, which suited the game, the technically superior Englishman. And yet, Liverpool was oppressive superior. The 22-year-young defender Rudi Assauer and his colleagues had to do all the feet with the exceptional attackers, Roger Hunt and Ian Callaghan. With some luck, the supernatant of the BVB in the first half without conceding a goal and then went even in the leadership, by Siegfried Held’s spectacular volley, the BBC Reporter praised as a “beautiful goal”.
Liverpool came somewhat happy to compensate. In the case of Peter Thompson’s Sprint on the right wing and the linesman had lifted the Flag. The Ball was already in before Roger heaved Hunt him humorless into the goal. Dortmund’s goalkeeper Hans Tilkowski followed the referee to the middle line, accompanied by a good 100 English Fans. It took a long time until a Scottish police officers had cleared the square.
As Tilkowski did not know that he suffered a couple of weeks later at Wembley, a much more controversial hits. This is the final in a rainy may, but ended well for his team, thanks to a second dortmun founder with Schalke Background. Reinhard Libuda, the all just called Stan, had joined a year earlier, the BVB, because his Schalke were actually relegated as a table, the last of the Bundesliga. It is the scandal of illegal hand funds from Hertha BSC. Hertha was condemned to relegation and the League to 18 clubs advanced. Schalke was allowed to stay, but since it was for Libuda already too late.
After the game, there was a bottle of beer – “maybe two”
His Dortmund time, a three-year-long Episode was, early on, crowned by a great goal. Libuda scored early in the second half of extra time. Again, Hero was in-between the feet in the game, Liverpool goalkeeper Tommy Lawrence parted and struck the Ball to the side line, directly at the foot of Libuda. Of now had all the time in the world to go a few steps into the penalty area. Libuda, however, was not a man for easy solutions. So he hit the Ball directly back in the direction of the gate, in a high arc over all the Dortmund and Liverpool. As the last of Ron Yeats tried it, but didn’t jump high enough, the Ball flew to the pole, back to the back of the Liverpool captain, and from there into the goal. “Goal by Libuda,” said the BBC Reporter, was much more not to say.
A quarter of an hour later, and the BVB was the first German team, who sat enthroned on the European stage. Later in the evening, Bill Shankly was raging at the Banquet: “We have not lost against a team that play football, but only bolt can.” Also, Dortmund were a bit surprised by a victory, not even the Board had the guts. In retrospect, Hans Tilkowski, remembers that there had been in the Hotel a bottle of beer, “maybe two, so it was”.
the reception was at home all the more impressive. The 300 000 Dortmunder lined the streets around the Borsig square, they celebrated especially the shy Libuda. The remained two years in Dortmund, went back to Schalke, was involved in the Bundesliga scandal, and died in 1996 , impoverished and abandoned. Rudi Assauer moved in 1970 to Bremen and was later returned as a Manager to the station, to his new love Schalke 04. His black-and-yellow membership he maintained until the end.
