The goalkeeper Sepp Maier gave his gloves to Marek's goalkeeper Stoyan Stoyanov as a gift.
Four years later at the World Cup in Argentina, slightly past his peak but still formidable, Maier delivered a strong performance but could not prevent his side's failing to advance past the second round.
Sepp Blatter | Michael Maier | Sepp Piontek | Sepp Maier | Thomas Maier | Sepp Holzer | Sepp Herberger | Ott Sepp | Henry Maier | Guy Maier | Re-Sepp-Ten | Paul L. Maier | Pauline Maier | Pages from the 1656 translation of ''Aurea Themis'' of Michael Maier | Johann Nepomuk Sepp | Heinz Maier-Leibnitz | Charles S. Maier | Charles Robertson Maier |
Looking for decent goalkeepers to someday succeed ageing Sepp Maier in the West Germany goal, Helmut Schön turned his attention to the Werder Bremen man in 1977, handing Burdenski his first of altogether 12 caps in a friendly in Montevideo against Uruguay.
Besides many well-known actors of the day, the film also features Zlatko Čajkovski, 1967's trainer of FC Bayern Munich, his goal-getter Gerd Müller and his goalkeeper Sepp Maier.