In the history of the chemical giant there are stories that people in Germany don’t want to remember: About this and more - in the exclusive Football material. ua.

Find out that the team from pre-war Kramatorsk became the champion of Ukraine in football. A small place with approximately 160 thousand inhabitants, there is a large agglomeration with a number of mines, plants and factories, and the capital is approximately 600 kilometers away.

Between Leverkusen and Donbass, it’s really important to get in touch. The country's greatest team lives in the outskirts of Cologne and continues in the first line of industry for which the Rhine-Ruhr region is famous. The Bayer plant in 1904 created a team to hire workers.

Bayer is a chemical giant whose headquarters are located in Leverkusen. In Ukraine, this company is primarily known for all its pharmaceutical products, although the main income of the company has been earned in the production of pharmaceuticals and barvniki.

In the chemical industry there are not only advantages in terms of jobs and contributions to the budget. In the fall of 2021, at the plant, the release of unsafe exits became a problem. After this, oily soot fell in Leverkusen. Two days later, 5 bodies of dead soldiers were found in the vibukha place, two people just died.

In the history of the chemical giant there are stories that people in Germany don’t want to remember: the creation of the sumptuous “Cyclone B”, which was fought in death camps, the discovery of heroin. At the same time, Bayer sells its products all over the world, and the factory team became the champion of Germany for the first time in history. Ale vice y you know that.

Chemical and football province Ukrainian footballers have already defeated Leverkusen. “Pharmacevti” played against Dynamo, Shakhtar, Metalist. Not so long ago, at the BayArena, the national team of Ukraine met with Italy, but we hardly remembered the place on the right birch of the Rhine. It is significant that the historical center of Cologne is devastated. An ancient place with its grand cathedral and beer-brauhaus, where the local “Kolsch” is bottled..

Places between places in this region - intelligence. One population point flows into another. From the center of Cologne to Leverkusen there are only a few train links, and all areas are served by the Moscow tram.. To the neighboring Dusseldorf - not much more than the same train or autobahn.

Robiti in Leverkusen for the great rakhunko nothing. A typical pedestrian center with shops and stores, a number of parks and museums. The biggest attraction in the city is the city football club and “BayArena”. A small river flows through the stadium and a park with a children's path.

A typical quieter German place, but with two nuances. The first one is within Leverkusen and on its outskirts there are a lot of industrial facilities, tanks, pipelines. The other one is home to one of the strongest football clubs in Europe, which has probably played in the finals of the Champions League.

It so happened that the strongest clubs play far away in uninvited places in the federal state of Pivnichnaya Rhine-Westphalia. In the million-dollar city of Cologne, the “goats” more often fight for championships, less for European cups, Fortune from Dusseldorf - at the same time they are heading to the elite Bundesliga. Stable results are demonstrated by Leverkusen, Borussia and the depressed Shakhtar Dortmund and Monchengladbach.

So you can pick up football stars in Cologne or Dusseldorf for life, and drive a car for training without any problems. Granit Xhaka, for example, played for Borussia from Gladbach before Arsenal, but lives in Dusseldorf. Andriy Voronin, when his family moved from Cologne to Bayer in 2004, had no problems with the move.

It’s easy to guess that Leverkusen’s leading star, Florian Wirtz, was born in the outskirts of Cologne, Pulheim.. Bayer scandalously lured a retired player from the Kozlov youth team, although the clubs previously decided not to do so. The “pharmacists” argued that they had asked the graver to take over the command, and that they had not formally violated the agreement.

Who supports Bayer For the number of fans in the region, Leverkusen significantly sacrifices Cologne and Borussia Dortmund. In Cologne and its streets there are a lot of symbols of “goats”: on transport links, walls, on the clothes of local residents. No exception - Leverkusen.

Sometimes residents of other suburbs fall ill for Bayer. For example, Frehena chi Troisdorf. We hung out with Ollie, a resident of Troisdorf and a fierce fan of “pharmacists”. He has been rooting for Leverkusen since childhood, but apparently, Ollie could not guess how many deaths he himself suffered when he played the first match of his favorite team.

Ollie is a member of the club and will pay a contribution of 35 euros.. This allows you to maintain a Bayer and Mother account on the official club website. Therefore, we have discounts on a variety of merchandise: from T-shirts and jackets to eyepieces, cups and rulers.

Head plus - the right to receive tickets and season tickets on a first-come basis. In any case, however, it is very important to get access to the stadium with your membership card.

“So, you can easily buy tickets for games with weak opponents in the early stages of the European League, or against Dortmund, for example, tickets were bought in the first half of the last century. You need to go to the website and stay alive together with other members of the club,” said Ollie.

Ollie has a bunch of Baier symbols: shawls, T-shirts. Here's the original game equipment. For example, the goalkeeper light of the legendary Hans-Jorg Butt and his playing gloves.

Also original T-shirts of Oliver Neuville and Bernd Schneider signed by team members.

I was able to achieve such trophies, among other things, through those who knew my father’s great physiotherapist Baer. Ollie has the opportunity to train the team live and make a commitment to the club.

This is a great time for a new person, even Leverkusen becoming not only a champion, but close to victory in two cups. One minus - perhaps all of Ollie’s friends and relatives support Cologne, Dortmund or Bayern.