BERLIN: At 75, former footballer Baerbel Wohlleben still clearly remembers the moment in 1974 when a journalist asked,"but when you head the ball, doesn't it mess up your hair?"
At the age of 10, she kicked a ball for the first time on Jul 5, 1954 - the day West Germany won the World Cup for the first time by beating hot-favourites Hungary 3-2 in the final in Bern, Switzerland. "After the victory, we celebrated like crazy, went down to the garden and that's where I said 'I want to play football'.
"We never had any training sessions together, but played a few games against Denmark and Italy. The DFB knew it, they allowed us to play, but still told us 'you do not have the right to form a national team'." "What does your husband think about it? Does he agree with it? Who looks after the home when you're playing?"It was a different time, you have to remember that until 1977, German women were not allowed to work without the written consent of their husbands."
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