Gerd Mueller (1945-2021) | In Memoriam of great striker!

Gerhard Mueller (November 3, 1945 – August 15, 2021)

The legendary striker of the German representative passed away at the age of 75 in the early hours of Sunday, August 15, his former club “FC Bayern” gave the news.

During a career excellent, Mueller scored a record 365 goals for “FC Bayern” in the Bundesliga during a period of 1960 – 1970, as well as 68 times for FRG, West Germany in 62 international matches that he played.
“Today is a sad day, for “FC Bayern” and its fans,” said Bayern president Herbert Hainer. “Gerd Mueller was the greatest striker we ever had, a great person, and a personality in world football. “Without Gerd Mueller, FC Bayern would not be the club we all love today. “His name and his memory will live forever.”

In recent years, Mueller had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. He leaves behind his wife Uschi.

Thanks to his goals, Mueller made history for both FC Bayern Munich and West Germany. He scored an incredible 566 goals in 607 games for FC Bayern. He was part of the Bayern teams that won four Bundesliga titles and dominated the former European Cup – now the Champions League – lifting the trophy three seasons in a row from 1974-1976.

Mueller’s Bundesliga record of 40 goals scored in a single season in 1971-1972 stood long until current Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski scored 41 goals, one more, precisely in 2020-2021 (in May 2021 , scored the 41st goal).

With the West German national team, Mueller won the European Championships in 1972 and the World Cup in 1974, scoring the winning goal in the final played in Munich against Cruyff’s great Netherlands. After his career, he stayed with the club for a long time as coach of the youth teams.

PROFILE

The most outstanding goalscorer in the world, for his generation, was undoubtedly the German Gerd Müller, who started his football career with the team of the city where he was born, Nördlingen, before later moving to the famous club “Bayern Munich”, which when he turned 18 years old in 1964.

This is where the career rising point begins, while Müller made his deputation with FRG in October 1966 against Turkey. Soon after, he will be inseparable from the basic formation of “Manshaft”.

Gerd Muller was the player who had a very special talent for scoring, a sense of smell like no other in front of the goal like a “bird of prey”. All the goals he scored can be proven by the fact that they were scored inside the penalty area or with a penalty and almost most of them came quite suddenly when you weren’t thinking. His style, kicks with both feet and with his head in different positions, with his back, diagonally, turning into a spin made Mueller score an incredible number of goals, a total of 68 of these in 62 appearances with the German national team. continuing on, there are 365 goals in 427 matches in the

Bundesliga, staggering numbers that have made him win the championship’s top scorer in 7 seasons.

In the World Cup edition of 1970, “Der Bomber” was in his best form when he scored 10 goals in 6 games, including two goals scored against Bulgaria and Peru, which made him at the end of the World Cup with “Golden Boot” – The golden boot and later as the best European player of the year. Only two years later, in 1972, the title of the European champion comes when the Germans convincingly defeat BRS 3-0.

But the most glorious chapter for the “Bomber” will be written in 1974, when together with the FRG team it is declared World Champion. He did not emerge as the best scorer of the championship, but nevertheless with his goal in the final against Hollande, he played the main role in winning the world title. In the same year, Gerd “The Bomber” wins the first title of the Champions Cup with his club Bayern Munich.

He took part in all three of Bayern’s successes during this time. Later, Mueller will move to America in the late 70s, for a new challenge. He retired from football in 1982. After he finished his career, he had quite a few problems with alcohol and from where he was often helped by his friends, especially by the legendary German captain Franz Beckenbauer, offering him a place in the Bayern staff!!

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