NAfter the death of Ged Muller Franz Beckenbauer Highlights the special relationship with the former world-class shooter. “He is a very good person, much more cunning than many people think,” said the 75-year-old Bild. “Geld and I-we are like brothers.” Mueller died on Sunday morning. He is 75 years old. He suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and has been living in a nursing home for many years and receiving professional care there. Beckenbauer admitted: “Even if people have to fear this news for a long time: it shocks me.”
Mueller in the summer of 1964 Bayern Munich Together with Beckenbauer, he created an unprecedentedly successful era in German club football. With the national team, they became European champions in 1972 and 1974, and won the world championship in 1974. Mueller scored the winning goal in the Munich final against the Netherlands.
After the end of his active career, Mueller served as a coach for the Bayern youth team for a long time.Which benefited Thomas Muller By him. He learned a lot from the forward coach when he was young, and on Sunday night he wrote a very private post on Instagram to his player of the same name.
“Except for my personal contact with you, your evaluation of our @fcbayern and @dfb_team achievements is not high enough. Without your goals, we would not be where we are today,” Thomas Muller said, summarizing in these words For his contribution: “Thank you for everything, and finally the most important message: you are a very good person!!!”
companion Gunter Netzer He hailed Mueller as “the best and most unpredictable German shooter of all time.” The attacker is “a phenomenon”. “He is not the best player, but he did something-I think-sometimes he doesn’t understand himself,” Netzel said. HSV legend Uwe Seeler said of Mueller’s death after a long illness: “Maybe it’s a relief for him.”
Beckenbauer remembers an anecdote that happened during the time this outstanding football player spent with the German record champion: “At the time we lived only a few kilometers apart. He picked me up before the game, sometimes Had to wait for me. When he once said impatiently: “Franz, our downhill team is going to be late. I laughed: “Dick”—that’s what I call him—”Remember one thing. Without us, no one would leave Bavaria…” Beckenbauer said.
Mueller crowned himself with Beckenbauer and others Uligenes To the world champion. “I am personally honored to be able to play by his side,” Hoeness said to Münchner Merkur and tz. “Geld is unique on the court. He is always a humble and down-to-earth partner beside the court. All of us value his height,” Hoeness said. For the former Bayern chairman, Mueller is a “man who we all owe him unlimited.”
even Paul Breitner, Was also the world champion in 1974, deeply influenced. “For me, Gerd Muller is the greatest football player of my life. Gerd is the basis for the birth of the great Bayern Football Club of our time. Gerd has had a decisive impact on my life. “Brettner wrote in tz. He also thanked Mueller’s wife Uschi, “I was allowed to accompany him at home, especially in his last years. I couldn’t get close to him until the end.”
Muller won two Bundesliga Sunday matches between Mainz 05 and Leipzig RB and 1. FC Cologne and Hertha Berlin. Mainz observed a minute of silence, and Cologne applauded for a minute.
