The day was 4 May 2002. The scene was set for a climactic finish to the 2001/02 season. Dortmund went into the last day a point ahead of Bayer Leverkusen and two ahead of Bayern. The final home game of the season against Werder Bremen was a mirror image of the highs and lows BVB fans had experienced all season. A shot against the bar by Amoroso, Werder taking the lead, other rivals taking control of their games early on to add to the pressure, then Koller’s equaliser, Addo hits the post, while on the side-lines Emerson warms up. Then Tiikuzu opted for the more difficult path when a goal seemed certain and only struck the woodwork.

Sammer was quite convinced after the game ”that had that gone in there was no way we were going to come back again.“ But on comes Ewerthon, who had joined the club during the season and made a great debut against St. Pauli. And here he did it again. People have since calculated that it was exactly 49 seconds after coming on that he fired home the winner on 74 minutes to prompt a wave of sound in the Westfalen stadium that had never before been experienced even in that less than quiet ground. Borussia Dortmund, German champions for a sixth time.