The eternal record of “Tanne”: Klaus “Tanne” Fichtel, with 552 Bundesliga appearances for Werder Bremen and Schalke 04, probably holds an unbreakable Bundesliga appearance record. Better still: at 43 years, six months and three days on 21 May 1988, he also became the oldest player ever to appear in the Bundesliga – and still held that record in December 2019.