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If someone scores two goals in a BEK final on May 17 and just a month later, on July 7, a winning shot in a World Cup final, it is written in golden letters in football history, Although nothing before or after. do. But on November 3, 2020, Gerd Müller, 75, did countless things before and after. It is no coincidence that the Germans call him “Bomber der Nation”, he has won everything he could have won. , which is close to one of the top positions, but then Gerd Müller always remains at the top of the list, and that takes almost fifty years.
A II. He was born in Nördlingen in the year of the end of the Second World War under the name Gerhard Müller. He got acquainted with football in a small town in the geometric center of the Stuttgart-Nuremberg-Munich triangle, but at the age of 18 he was already training in Munich with the city’s second team, Bayern. Two weeks after his 19th birthday, on November 18, 1964, he also made his appearance in a league game at then-second division Bayern. The Bavarian goalkeeper who played in Freiburg was called Sepp Maier and the midfielder Franz Beckenbauer. Freiburg fans had no idea what kind of historic event they were witnessing, as this is when these geniuses from all three eras entered the field together for the first time in a league match. The national pharmacists were still angry at the time, as Bayern won 11-2. Gerd Müller scored the third goal and then scored in each of the next 11 league games. A total of 24 times! This is an average of two goals / game. This occurred in the teenager’s first 12 games. By then, everyone had guessed that he would become someone. By the end of the season, he had scored 33 goals, even though he had only played 26 games.
Bayern, of course, advanced to the Bundesliga1, and Gerd Müller’s parade of goals continued there. For 13 and a half years. Without decay of form, ups and downs and crisis. He had twice as many injuries between 1965 and 1979, but other than those months, he only missed 13 Bundesliga games. He did not miss a match with minor injuries, wrist fractures, broken tibia, various bruises. And in the meantime, he kept building the peaks that are unsurpassed to this day. He was a scorer seven times in the Bundesliga. Of course, no one else has accomplished this so many times. The top 40 Bundesliga goals scored in the 1971-72 season are sometimes picked up by the world with the possibility of canceling it. Then the challenger slows down and Müller’s peak remains. Maybe forever. And what is even more surprising and impressive is that with the second highest number of goals, 38, he also became the top scorer (1969-70) and the third, 36 (1972-73). Lewandowski is currently a five-time goal king and has never scored more than 34 in a season.
Counting 16 times in all series in which he entered the field, he was the top scorer. They have it all: World Cup, European Championship, BEK, German Cup. He has played a total of 579 games in nine series with the Bayern jersey. He was always a member of the starting team, which means he never sat on the bench. Maybe he didn’t know why there was a long horse at the edge of the field where the players had a seat next to the coach. It also happened to him only 10 times that he couldn’t be on the grass until the game was turned off.
In his 427th Bundesliga1 encounter, he found the goal of his opponents 365 times. He was successful in the league every 105 minutes. In this eternal ranking, Klaus Fischer, who was right behind him, scored 268 goals. 97 less than him. Lewandowski currently has 246 goals. Four master quintets, ten master quartets are associated with the name Gerd Müller, and his almost incomprehensible acts could still be enumerated for a long time.
Anyone who says scoring was easier then than it is today thinks of Franz Beckenbauer’s sentence 10 years ago. The emperor said that Gerd Müller, in his form in his “forty-goal season”, would score 60 goals by the end of the 2010s. As an explanation, he added that in the 70s, the opponent’s stand was occupied only with the neutralization of Gerd Müller, whereas in the modern defensive system, he would have much more space and opportunity to score. And if they gave him a tiny space, he immediately knocked it down. Also, looking at his goals, he shone even when he had practically little ball area. He was a true genius of world football.
Everyone remembers him as a scorer sniper, but if the situation wanted it, he also ran in his own 16th. And his technique couldn’t be a big deal either, because very few people know about it! – is the first German footballer to win the Ballon d’Or. And it is not primarily for scoring, but for complex football performance.
He received the Ballon d’Or in 1970 when he became the king of World Cup goals. He also won the last title at the 1972 European Championship when he scored four of the FRG’s 5 goals in the final. He managed 2-2 times both in the semi-finals against the Belgians and in the final against the Soviets. This is how he won the European Championship with the national team. The World Cup by scoring the only goal of the match in the last group stage match against Poland in the semifinal, and then the finalist in the 1-1 final against the Netherlands. He was always expected to score the fateful goal and he always did. In their first World Cup, in the quarter-finals in 1970, England were already 2-0 ahead of the FRG, but with goals from Beckenbauer and Uwe Seeler they saved the game for the last overtime. There, Müller knocked out the defending champion. Alan Mullary, who scored the first goal, was disappointed by the German who was destined: He looked like the clumsiest player in the world, but he was so incredibly sensitive to goals that it made him one of the greatest. “
Gerd Müller has played for the national team 62 times, 61 times as a member of the starting line-up and has never been replaced by captain Helmut Schön. He scored 68 goals in the National 11 jersey. And how much more could he have won if he had not turned his back on the national team at 28 years after the 1974 World Cup final! But after the match that the RFA won with his goal, something happened that he refused to accept. When the players appeared with their official wives and girlfriends at a reception held in their honor, the association leaders did not admit the ladies. While the wives of the officials marched there in the restaurant of the elegant hotel. First, Uli Hoeness declared that he would not stay here without his wife, and then all the players left. Speaking to one of the television crews in the foreground, Gerd Müller said with a cigar in hand that he would never be in the German national team again. Even Overath, Grabowski and Breitner shared the same thing with the world as the media that night. The latter later changed his decision, but Müller did not.
However, Müller was at the top for years. He also scored in the 1975 BEK finals, which he did twice in the club soccer main event finals. In the 1977-78 season, he also became the Bundesliga’s top scorer for the seventh time. He was able to accomplish this at the end of Bayern’s first golden age, finishing only 12th. It was the first season without Beckenbauer, and that also exhausted Müller. Then, after finishing 12th, the game was stopped by Bule Roth, with whom they became eternal friends almost in their first meeting. They played together for 12 years at Bayern. Müller felt worse and worse for the team and the two Hungarian coaches could not get along with either Lula Lóránt or Pál Csernai.
On February 10, 1979, he played for the last time 4-0 against Dortmund in the Bayern jersey. His career did not end then, but the successful part of his life ended with this meeting. After winning against Dortmund, he boarded a plane and temporarily moved to the United States. At the time, it was perhaps promising ground for the average German, but German football was by no means the most ingenious scorer in history. Gerd Müller could only be a prophet in his own country. He was included in the United States championship for the purpose of earning money before retiring. Pelé and Beckenbauer have done the same before. But even with those names, people did not fall in love with European football. Müller also didn’t feel good on the Fort Lauderdale Strikers team, though he did score 40 goals in 80 games. But that was not his level. In 1981, at the age of 36, he quietly put an end to his unprecedented success. He moved home to Munich, but there a very deep and dark abyss awaited the genius accustomed to eternal brilliance.
But that is another story.
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