For Gerd, values like friendship or fair play still had a great meaning, says Rummenigge the Gerd Müller: I will never forget his positive way, his laugh, his sense of humor and of course his great gates never forgot. He was modest, down to earth, and always Again, when the masses cheered him. Franz Beckenbauer once said it so beautifully: 'Everything the FC Bavaria has ended up, he owes Gerd Müller - without his doors, we would still sit in the boards at the Säbner Straße today. I can only associate myself with.
Of course it was the many goals, the Gerd Müller took the legend - but woe, it did not work as he wanted in the field. There he could get terribly upset, says Rummenigge, if it did not work out with the gates. Then he stood in the shower under the shower and it took a felt eternity until he calmed down again. I could always understand. I had the great luck to play as a young striker on the side of Gerd Müller and win with him twice the European Cup of the national master. The penalty area was Gerd's world: a step forward, a back, before, back, back, back, and At some point he had exactly the couple of centimeters space that had enough for him. To do this, the double passes with Franz Beckenbauer - the two understood blindly - that was precision work.
Part of this, I was fun, says the ex-Bavaria boss. But especially in memory, the first shared day remained. Of course, I still know how I met him in the cabin of Bayern for the first time. I was 18 years old, full of awe and, like everyone else, have also satisfied. Then he said, 'Hey Burschi, we play in one Team! I'm the Gerd ... '
Countless titles and gates: The career of Gerd Müller
Gerd, the most successful goalkeeper in Germany. But what was his beautiful goal? For Rummenigge, the former striker, is of course incredibly hard to say, they were alone 365 in the Bundesliga. Since I take the 9-0 against Tennis Borussia on 10 September 1976 - that was such a typical miller Ding. Somehow, the ball lands in his penalty area with him, he leaves half in the falling still a turn, pushing the ball in the knees with the long leg the ball in the net. Incidentally, he shot five goals in the game, I was three in the national team , I think, historically, the 2: 1 in the final of the World Championship in 1974 against the Netherlands. This gate has a special place in history.
And the name of man Gerd Müller in the heart of Rummenigges: My thoughts and my entire family are with his wife Uschi and his daughter. Should there be a football team in heaven - now it is a giant richer.
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