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Mar. 27 Watched by 78 000 visitors absolved the wellknown goalkeeper Sepp Maier his farewell play in Munich in the olympic-stadium: Sepp Maier shed tears; and 78000 visitors in the selled out Munich/West-Germany olympic-stadium were sent into raptures. The farewell-play for the West-German record national goaly became a gorgeous football-festivity. The German football-champion FC Bayern Munchen, whose member Sepp Maier is, was a little bit tired in the second part of the play and so the team lost against the national team of West-Germant 3:1 (1:1). Sepp Maier, whose splendid career one year ago was stopped by an heavy car-crash had no many work in the farewell-play, so he had time to amuse his fans with a lot of jokes and to pass the with venturing an trip out of his penalty area. As he after 20 minutes left the goal for ever great applause filled the big stadium. At this farewell round through the sportplace Sepp Maier threw his goalkeeper gloves and his football-boots into the enthusiastically auditorium. Photo shows Sepp Maier (right) and his successor at the team of FC Bayern Munchen Walter Junghans (WALTER JUNGHANS)

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