Goals his trademark. In football stadium Gerd Müller was at Bayern and the national team in the limelight, which he shunned outside prefer. Now the Bomber der Nation is 70 years old. His Alzheimer’s disease touched the nation.
The goal was his kingdom. If Gerd Müller came to the ball near the gate, it has usually done Bumm. No German striker before and after him reach his class, none scored so many goals. And Müller completed his job in the football stadiums in an inimitable way: He met quickly by the rotation, in the cases and in the seats, with the left, right or with his head. He was the king in the penalty area!
“Gerd Müller was probably the greatest striker that we had in Germany”, ruled Germany coach Joachim Loew on the occasion of the 70th birthday of the bomber of the nation. The great day of the World Champion (1974), European champion (1972) and record protecting the Bundesliga (365 goals in 427 games) has this Tuesday committed but without big festivities.
Gerd Müller suffers from Alzheimer
Sadly reason: Gerd Müller suffers from Alzheimer’s. In the disease, the memory is lost, the essence of the person concerned is changing. Since the beginning of February Müller is professionally cared for with great support of his family. Bayern had made miller disease a few weeks ago publicized, for the protection of Müller’s wife Uschi before countless media inquiries to the milestone birthday.
The surprising message for the general public has about the football scene also touched many people. Football idol Uwe Seeler spoke of sadness, the longtime Bavaria-maker Uli Hoeneß described the fate of the companions than terrible.
Hoeness accompanied Müller through ups and downs
Hoeness, who in the great Bayern times in the 1970s, on the side Müller stormed, was one of those who were also in the biggest life crisis of the bomber on the spot and acted decisively. Because life off the court had not ruled as such the ball and Vorstopper the box Müller.
The victory over his alcoholism 30 years ago was probably the most important in the life of the skilled weaver. “After four weeks, I came from the Kur. It create in such a short time, that was quite an accomplishment,” Gerd Müller told in the fall of 2007 at a meeting in Munich with pride. At that time, he served as assistant coach of amateurs alongside Hermann Gerland.
Gerd Müller: “The team is everything to me”
World Champion like Philipp Lahm, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Thomas Müller or Toni Kroos also benefited from his wealth of experience. It was a task that filled the indigenous Müller, made happy and content. “The team is everything for me,” he often said.
In spite of Franz Beckenbauer, Uli Hoeness, despite – the steep climb to number 1 in the German football club FC Bayern had to thank particularly miller gates. “What the FC Bayern is today, with the palace Sabener road – without Gerd Müller would the people there are still in this wooden shack back then,” Beckenbauer miller described meaning. “Bayern bows to this man,” commented Karl-Heinz Rummenigge for his birthday.
“Gerd was and is the greatest of all time, the Ali . the penalty areas “
The chairman of the German record champion chose to celebrate the” best Neuner “in football a comparison with the boxing legend Muhammad Ali:” Gerd was and is the greatest of all time, the Ali of the penalty areas . ” A striker like him it would never give predicts the former world-class striker Rummenigge.
The exceptional status has always stressed the world champion Miroslav Klose. When he replaced Müller shortly before the 2014 World Cup in Brazil after 40 years as Germany’s record Protect stressed Klose: “Gerd Muller can be compared with any other striker.” Klose leads the ranking, although now with 71 hits to, required for the record but 137 internationals. Müller met in only 62 games for Germany 68 times – a phenomenal rate of 1.1 per game
World Cup 1974:. Muller’s goal for eternity
The Tor succeeded for eternity Müller at the end of his much too early ended DFB career. In the World Cup final in 1974, he scored the 2 in Munich’s Olympic Stadium: 1 against the Netherlands. “I made more beautiful goals, but the most important was this Weltmeistertor” he said.
When Müller after his career, which was ingloriously died away in 1982 in the US, with games in the stands watching his successors, the bomber set always the same question, when a shot or a header not landed in the net. “Would you have made the pure?” Probably yes. Muller’s 40 goals in the 1971-72 season are still a Bundesliga record. For eternally untouchable
No “Lichtgestalt”: Gerd Müller lives rather withdrawn
As Gerd Müller in 1964 as a 18-year-old from Swabia Amateur league club TSV 1861 Nördlingen moved to FC Bayern were rewarded its doors with a base salary of 160 marks a month . Nowadays he’d showered with millions. But a pro-existence in times of Twitter, Facebook and constant media hype would for Gerd Müller probably rather an abomination been as a fluke.
Müller has Beckenbauer, who has turned 70 years old in September also, never envied his status as a figure of light. “What the Franz rumfliegt and bypasses -. No thanks I’m not one who likes to get away from home is,” Mueller told in those days, when there were better he felt. Before his illness, Müller had to Champions League trips Bayern harnessed as an attraction for sponsors and precious fans. That was enough for him to attention.
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