The question seeped rather shy through the phone. Whether it goes as early as possible? Towly, Gerd Müller expressed his proposal. A good 150 kilometers of arrivals Be it by car, on Monday with the many pendants in morning traffic, still 7.30 am? The question mark followed unmistakably through the dension line. The statement of the desired appointment sounded like an apology. It actually conversely. For a meeting and interview with this man, no hour would be too early or too late, no way too far. An honor was a conversation with the largest scorer of all time, with the idol of one's own childhood, with a man who was a world star without having to ever want it in the approach.
His world was perfectly fine
So we sat there. The club center of Bayern did not shoot as today, in the basement was a little more industrial function room with cupboards, equipment, balls. In this mess there was somewhere in the corner Gerd Müller, at that time the co-coach at the amateurs. There was no complaints from him, his world was perfectly fine. He had everything he needed. When we later met again, on the occasion of his 50th and 60th birthday to speak over and life at all, nothing had changed on this internal balance.
What I need like that, but I need little anyway.
Gerd Müller
He was preferred between the domestic stove and the club cabin, unobtrusively, preferably in the tracksuit. This person was absolutely in pure. If he, the largest scorer of the scorer of all times, spoke 16 years ago on the occasion of his 60th birthday, that for him three decades after his fantastic career, ten million euros annual earnings would have been possible, this note was no more than a marginal note for him. Money no longer determined his life, he realized it as a means of living: What I need like that, but I need little anyway. As a schoolchild he had extended Saturdays at 5 o'clock with the bread roll bun, later as a shift worker he had to get out just as early as. So you get to the early riser and learns the little things of life.
without alloys in the grave stone league
So Gerd Müller also later defined the daily little luck. I feel like 50, he said in October 2005 and was happy about his running assets in the beloved tennis. Every day he played an hour in that time. Even if both hips were artificial and occasionally hurt, he wanted it to be like that. There is no better life, Gerd Müller said. It goes on as it was so far. And it's okay so. Ten years earlier he had played football and fulfilled his last sporty life roof. In the so-called tombstone league he had won his team the final against pasing, as he told. Gravsteinliga? Yes, there can only play that in the current year 50, Müller explained. Contact the team continued took care of that team. He was just a person like you and me, without any allenes.
from all layers and angles, with all body parts
At best, supervisions over the football field, the ambition of the scorer. Training games moved to length until Müller's team had won. Otherwise he became inedible. And woe, he said in retrospect, the others did not play the ball, to him. They like to do it because they knew he would refine the pass. Gerd Müller scored his gates from all layers, corners and angles, with all his body parts. His hits appeared so easy and were so spectacular.
Gerd Müller will live on
A decade after his last appearance in that grave stone league - what a macabre name! - We talked about death too. No, he answered the question of whether he was afraid of it. I do not think about it. 70 years he wanted to be, he said then. He was 75. After a long suffering, Gerd Müller now died. But he will live on. The generation, which was great with him and was allowed to experience his gates live, will always bow to admiration before him, the post-born should use every opportunity to see moving pictures of this extraordinary scorer.
Gerd Müller gives as a football player a role model with his goals; And as a person for a life in contentment and modesty. Often, footballers are referred to as legend, Gerd Müller is one.
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