I was at the store picking up medicine and I see a box of medicine called Bayer and it had the same Bayer badge on it too, which came first and is it one company?
I was at the store picking up medicine and I see a box of medicine called Bayer and it had the same Bayer badge on it too, which came first and is it one company?
Is it true that the players were employed by Bayer? And when did it change?
It’s true but I don’t know when it changed.
Around the late 40s and early 50s, when the team went up to the second division. Some of them still worked for Bayer, but it wasn’t a necessity anymore.
In the 60s, when Bundesliga was originally formed, the teams became more professional and the number of employed players sank down.
Let me rephrase it, I didn’t mean employees playing for the team but players getting contracted by the company.
Edit: I don’t mean employees playing for the team but other players contracted by the company so they could play for the team
Used to be a thing, i would guess till late 60s and maybe even early 70s. Leverkusen wasn’t promoted to the first devision until 1978/79. I think Falko Götz even said something about securing a Job after football when he fleed from the DDR and joined Leverkusen