"Very sorry to hear that Gerd Müller has passed away. Loved watching him as a child and learnt so much from doing so. The greatest penalty box goal scorer I’ve ever seen." - Gary Lineker.
When I first saw him I told my dad that this guy couldn't play. He just happened to be where the ball came to. My dad laughed his ass off and told me (I was playing right winger at that time): ""Well, just try to do what he does: happen to be where the ball comes!" - Seriously: Gerd understood this game like nobody else. He simply knew what would happen. He was not born to play football. He was born to get that round leather thing into the net. And that he did like nobody else.
I think this is What the Current Thomas Muller also followed to a degree, he is also very good at reading the ball and he is better off the ball than with it.
This is the same criticism people have against erling haaland. I'm pretty sure 99% percent of strikers past and present would absolutely love to have this same problem : always being where the ball is in the box
Him and Jimmy Greaves it's incredible how the last time I looked , Greaves scored one goal more than Muller throughout there whole career . both masters of there trades
One of the most underrated players of all time .when people talk about all time greats they never mention him but as a pure goal scorer no one could touch him .not just his quantity of goals but always scored in the big games.
A lot of people who never watched him think he’s only a tap in / header merchant. I was guilty of that as well. He’s actually a terrific dribbler in tight spaces and knew how to lose his defender with his outstanding agility. Arguably the most dangerous goal threat of all time.
@@DrMabors He even scored in a fourth goal in their 3rd european final in 1976 during the first 10 minutes or so of the game which didnt count due to offside. Dont know if this decision was correct. And in the 1974 world cup final he scored at least one more goal (would have been the 3-1) which also didnt count due to offside, and this was definitifely a mistake by the referee.
The best goal poacher of all time! Absolute legend who is forgotten a bit these days because he was not a flashy player to watch but what he brought was results, he was a pure winner!
I'm brazilian. If I had to make a dream team, I think I would come with Gerd Muller as foward... he did goals even falling, with no angle, heading... his numbers are incredible.
As fantastic a finisher (in the box) as he was, he was hardly a Ronaldo. My dream team would have a front three of Messi, Pele and Maradona. And I'd want to see a lot of goals.
An assassin in the box, the best international striker ever. In an era of brutal man to man marking his record speaks for itself. A truly a great striker.
Bobby Charlton, Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, Paolo Rossi, Zinedine Zidane, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, and Kaka have all done it but i agree one of the greatest gerd4ever
@@pranavkrishnan7859 Bobby Charlton, never won euro, Beckenbauer never won golden boot, Zidane never won golden boot, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, kaka never played in Europe as a result never won Euro.
@@pranavkrishnan7859 kaka won it but didn’t play in any of the knockout games and only played a handful of minutes if that. If you don’t play in the final as a starter or sub it’s not the same
I was fortunate enough to play a game against Muller while he played with the Ft Lauderdale Strikers. I had never seen anyone kick the ball so hard it was scary!
I used to play with an amateur team from Ft. Laud while in high school. My coach and the coach for the Strikers were friends and they arranged for us to play against each other for practice. Muller was popular, but the best player in his team was named Cubillas, he was fast, strong, and had tremendous skill with the ball. It seemed effortless when he ran..like a gazelle, you don’t expect them to be so fast...
@@michaela.velasquez4784 Nice👍🏻 It must have been a great experience for you. I only saw him once after he retired sadly when he was the coach of Bayern Munichs second team.
@@cCiIcCo it was a bit surreal, I had watched him on the television during a World Cup and to play on the same field as him was like unbelievable! It became clear just how much we all had to improve if we wanted to play at a high level..
This guy was insane. The consistency with which he was putting those numbers up was incredible, really one of the greatest of all time. Great content Bro
8:00 is basically Mueller in a nutshell. Give him the ball in the box and he will manage to get it into the goal somehow, despite beeing surrounded by 2-3 defenders. THIS is the beauty of his goals.
RIP Gerd. Amazing goalscorer, little powerhouse of a player and seriously, unfairly underrated. The only player England ever had near to him was Jimmy Greaves.
@@themanftheworld8439 wouldnt it just. RIP to them both. Muller had a fantastic work rate too. Greaves was a different player than him so would have worked. Best wishes
Well i don´t know where you live but in Germany he is the definition of a legend. And if i see the reactions about his death all over the world i would not say that he is rly overlooked. He was a humble men and not a posterboy like Christiano these days. Former brasilian international striker Luís Antônio Corrêa da Costa for example gave himself the stage name Müller based on Gerd Müller.
@@tristanbirkerod Eusebio was a better football player but less prolific. Cruyff wasnt a striker and therefore didnt shoot that many goals; he had other amazing qualities. Which Ronaldo do you talk about?
In terms of being prolific, that honor goes to Peyroteo. This less known player played just 334 games in his career but he still scored FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR goals, for a ridiculous goal ratio of 1.6287. To give you an idea of HOW ridiculous that goal ratio is, it's HIGHER than CR7 + Messi COMBINED. That said, Gerd Muller fully deserves a spot as one of the greatest goals scorers of all time, without a doubt: he's one of only SEVEN players EVER to reach 700+ official goals.
All I know is that whenever England were playing Germany we would wait in anticipation for the team lists on TV. If Muller wasn't on it, we cheered, aloud. If he was on it, we groaned and our chins hit our chests as we scratched our heads and dreaded the coming 90 minutes.
Best striker ever. There are interviews with german defenders who played against him and confessed, they still have nightmares about him 😁 Great video by the way 👍
what Breitner and Beckenbauer often said is, without Müllers scoring genius all of the talent and effort of Bayern and german team would have been worth nothing, void, zero, and it couldnt be more true. It is also insane how many decisive goals he scored, the definition of a clutch player. Müller is an icon, a phenomenal striker like no other, the definition of a goal scorer. he is THE epitomization of the #9 striker, was already in his time, and will probably forever be the greatest player in this position.
GOAT on his position, look at the all numbers he have achieved. His sum of appearances in all the games was about 1100 with over 1400 goals scored. You can't argue with numbers.
The Greatest of all great No 9s... .Franz Beckenbauer said " He is not the best player in the German team,...But he is the most important"......Viva Der Bomber.
@@gerryc2851 I'm sorry. I was stuck on the traditional English 4-4-2 system where 9 is a Striker (usually a target player) and 10 is Centre forward usually a fast poacher. I didn't know #11 was considered a left Wing position.
I would say, not many people remember this guy. He deserves better. He is like a super great surgeon. Narrow specialty - score a goal. But he was best at it.
He is very much remembered in Germany! Constantly mentioned and my dad would always tell stories on how illogical he was. I also remember a popular tv ad for a milk drink aired around 2014 involving Ger and Thomas Müller.
Paul Breitner has clearly stated he owes everything to Gerd as he would surely had not had the same career without him. I don't think you can get any testimonial better than that. Paul Breitner is a living legend
His center of gravity was quite low, that gave him body stability and body solidity (the parts of his body went into the same direction) which gave him an advantage of 50-100 milliseconds to accommodate himself for shooting to goal optimally.
I was born 40 km away from the town he is born called Nördlingen. Some day in the 80`s we played against "Nördlingen". If i sit down in the clubhouse i saw a photo from Gerd and there was written: 180 goals in one season in Germany called A-Jugend(last step before adults). I can`t believe but its true and in this moment i understood how well i can play soccer and what is possible. And...if you are such a big player and you are always down to earth and totally restrained charakter there is only one word: Idol.
I forgot to put the poll at first but it's there now, apologies. Been working a lot to bring something that's really special to me and this was at the back of my mind: Vote here: forms.gle/UGM7iiZH5dBDSuJz7 Hey UA-cam made me cut out a bit of the video at 8:59, I just mentioned he scored all of bayerns goals against Real Madrid and that they faced saint ettiene in the final
That World Cup total of goals stood for years.....until Ronaldo broke it in the 2006 World Cup. That's how good and prolific Müller was. Miroslav Klose since beat it in 2014. Müller is possibly the best No9 ever.
@@svenbardos6637 Miroslav Klose is well underrated. All time top scorer in the World Cup, winner of said cup, yet I don't believe he fully gets the credit he deserves.
The best thing about him was he was totally humble, grounded and nice to everyone, especially to the fans, if there were 1000 people who wanted a photo, autograph or just talk he took time for them.. Rest in Peace Gerd!
The best striker ever in the real sense of the word. His job is to score and that is what he does. He'll lurk around the penalty area and no matter how many try to mark him, he'll score. I think he's the only player to score more goals than the number of games he played for the country.
There was a jewish striker who played for Germany in the 1920s. 14 goals in 6 games. He was killed by the nazis and "erased" from the history books till 1959.
Always just being in the right spot, wasting no time to get the ball into the net. When the goalie and defenders, well, even his attacking team-mates try to grasp where the ball is and what could be done in the current game situation: Gerd Müller had already kicked it... and scored. Be it with either foot, head, shoulder, his back, even his bottocks. Surely amongst the GOAT attackers. Great selection of footage, thanks :)
Particularly fascinating to see the early film of Gerd Muller. Along with Cruyff and Beckenbauer, Gerd was the player I grew up admiring in football in my very early years. Gerd Muller was simply a genius at scoring goals, at every level, and the most natural at putting the ball in the back of the net I've ever seen. The greatest goalscorer ever imo. R.I.P.
As well as being an amazing player for scoring goals with crazy regularity, I believe he is the only person to have scored in a World Cup final, a European Championship final and a European Cup final. Someone correct that if it is wrong (the closest I found was Zidane, who also won them all but didn't score in the Euro 2000 final).
Indeed he did, in a world cup, europian championship, champions league, intercontinental finals. He has a better goal per game ratio in CL , international and overall than both messi and ronaldo. He won every single competition during his career. For me he is a top 5 all time player. One of most underrated player when ppl talk about messi, ronaldo, ronaldinho, ronaldo, zidane, diving Neymar, and many more
Before my time. Didn't know much about him until I heard he passed today. HOMIE WAS NASTY THO!!! Had an eye for goal like all the great forwards. Something a coach can't teach. Either you have it or you don't. And Muller def had it. And from the comments and news I can tell he left a huge affect on Bundisliga, German football, and the German people as a whole. RIP GERMAN LEGEND! The football world mourns for you today "Der Bomber".
He got the instinct and skills while playing on the streets like Maradona. Nowadays young players get tactically disciplined and you don't see that skills not very often anymore.
Gerd should be 10 out of 10 in everything and 10 in x factor. He made it look so easy what he did. He was so fast in short sprints like Messi or Maradona. He was other worldly in his ability to always put the ball in the back his adaptability in all competitions under pressure was 10/10. Just because he didn't look like a pretty boy ready for marketing machines or celebrity status or wasn't Hispanic or Mediterranean doesn't mean he wasn't one of THE BEST. Yea no Germans in your top players lol that's funny. Ethnocentrism goes in ALL directions. Leave it out for THE TRUTH. I respect your video I'm am not saying YOU are being ethnocentric I'm just speaking about the masses; you did a fine job here. Thank you for honoring this deserving genius of the real football the one you play with your feet and a sport played all over the world by the most people!!
I feel like you need to do the amazing Beckenbauer next ;) Great video as always! I have 2 personal suggestions if I may: 1) Chalana - 2nd best player in Benfica history in my dad's opinion 2) The amazing Lev Yashin, we need some gk love!
Müllers 1974 goal vs. Netherland was maybe the best penalty box action by a single player within 2 seconds. If you watch that goal 20 times in slow motion and recognize what he was doing in that 2 seconds....then you know how great he was. Stopping the ball in the opposite direction of 3 opponents to let them run into the dead field while others would have taken the ball directly on the goal from 5 meters. He didnt on purpose. After stopping the ball he jumped to the ball in a 180 degree turning jump maybe 5 centimeters above the ground to gain perfect the shooting position without any opponent players. Watch his left leg at that goal. Most players would tear everything in their knee. Goal scoring at its perfect best. ua-cam.com/video/IBpfxoNUa5o/v-deo.html
@@Britonbear Sorry forgot to mention them . They weren't just decent , they were great . That whole team was amazing . I mean most people ignore the fact that all eleven players were amazing and really really fascinating to watch . It's like if Leicester built an almost all England squad and won 5 CLs , 10 PLs, 3 ELs , 10 FA Cups , 10 League Cups in just 15 years . Utter insanity .
#GOAT 10/10 Bayern Munich won't never be today's Bayern Munich without Gerd Müller! He is the greatest & best number 9 has ever played for Bayern Munich & Germany! If he would play through the last 20 years; keep scoring goals, winning titles with Bayern Munich & Germany. He would be awarded with more Ballon D'Or & many individual honors deservily than he had. RIP Legend "Der Bomber" Gerd Müller!
RIP. Really underrated player. Way more than just a poacher Muller is definitely one of the most underrated and demonized players of all time. He should easily have the best first touch in the penalty box of all time, really good with his back against the goal as well. He can literally get past 2-3 players in the box in like half a second and then take a damn quick strong shot with good accuracy with either foot, don't think there's anyone else in the history of football who can do that. With his back to the goal ability and his high football IQ it's fair to say that he should definitely have been at least a top class pivot. His headers were also crazy good for someone of his size, should be one of the top 10 headers of all time, maybe even top 5. Yes, he was arguably the best poacher of all time, but he was also much much much more than 'just a poacher' In terms of peak ability I think he's right below the pele maradona messi and brazilian ronaldo. His only 'weakness' is that he doesn't have much ability to bring the ball forward and make proper dribbling runs from deep and because of his height you can't really just boot the ball forward and expect him to get the ball while hustling with defenders. But even then the gap between him and those four in terms of peak ability is pretty small imo. All things considered I think he's definitely at the very least a top 4 player of all time, maybe even 2nd best after pele. He didn't just score lots of goals, he scored lots of really important goals as well. 14 goals in 13 games at the world cup, including two goals at the 1970 WC semis, the crucial goal against poland to get germany to the WC finals in 1974 and ofc the winning goal against holland to win the 1974 WC. Besides that he also scored 4 goals in the 1972 euros semis and finals. And that's not even mentioning his insane scoring stats and his record breaking year of 85 goals. Messi broke the record in 2012 but muller still had a far better goal per game ratio
I knew he had unbelivble scoring record...What i Didn't know that he is "turning point i Bayerns history"...him Sep Mayer and Beckenbauer...I didn't know he had such an influence and that he pretty much made Bayern a great club...
@@dilshadareen8455 yes but Rummenige is generation afther...Bayern was already great club with european trophies...Muller is "pioneer" corner stone of Bayern becoming a great club...he brought them first European trophy and they also became german leading club...which wasn't the case before Muller came they were avarage...Muller Beckenbauer and Sep Maier...Pioneers they made Bayern from avarage to great club...
Franz Beckenbauer stated, that Bayern Munich would not exist in its current form, without Gerd Müller’s goals. He layer the foundation for the success.
@@noledelija1817 Rummenigge was a part of that Bayern side that laid the foundations for its future , it just happened when he was in his early days of his career .
He wasn´t the best player, but he was effective as hell. Shot from every angle with enormous power and had an incedible instinct where to stand. A true legend.
@@Ruda-n4h in this match you can see that he was a surprisingly 'modern' player - at least in regards to tactics. He was also a pretty good passing player, especially in small spaces. I think guardiola would have loved him as a player.
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Greatest striker of all time as per goals to games ratio. One of my favourite soccer players of all time along with George Best, Franz Beckenbauer, Lev Yashin, Paul Breitner, Alfredo di Stefano, Paola Maldini and Lothar Matthaus.
Müller had to play with a harsher offside rule and not much protection from being fouled by the opposition. I think in present day football he would even out score Messi and Ronaldo.
You are correct. Slide tackles from the side were normal. As was playing without shin guard. As long as you hit the ball it was no foul. I like to see how the current players would hold up with the old rules from the 1970’s.
@@wolfman9028 the game would be much slower and most great player would be often injured because they were “developed” for an entirely different style of play
@@nationalprussialism4880 the discussion has nothing to do with game speed. The discussion is about goal poachers. This is about instinct, you have it or not, and I have to say, there is no one better than Gerd Müller. At that time player were not developed, they just discovered them in lower leagues, and it was the coach/managers job to form a team from the available talent. I cannot say that those players had on average more injuries as today. Also, what you call slower game is due to the fact that they played man cover, you needed a lot of stamina to play. This has no relevance on anyone’s performance. The tactics were different. You can go by stats for goal poacher. And to negate the lower skills of the defenders from that area, the only option is to look at the performance in the national teams. These were best best players from that area. If you look there, Gerd Müller is #3 on the list with 1.09 goal per game. This is why you can not compare player or playing styles from different areas. In my opinion there will not be the best player of all time. If you reached the world class level, there is no more to gain. This world class pedestal need to be long enough to place all the players who earned the title „world class“ fit on there.
Exactly the type of Striker a coach dreams about...no messing around, no pretty but ineffective grandstanding or trying to look good...Gerd Müller would score when nobody else would. Even when the entire team had a bad day...one corner kick to Müller...goal. Your 1:2 in the 80 min....Müller would somehow score two goals ..headers, bicycle kicks, volleys, alone infront of the Goalkeeper...left....right...from near or a far...he was so hard to play. Him, Van Basten and Ronaldo (The Brazilian El Phenomenon) we're the absolute Endlevel - each with unique playing style re ppl representing their countries play culture.... Van Basten - athletic Müller - clinical Ronaldo - technical
I've watched football for many years but I'm not someone who thinks players were necessarily better 40 or 50 years ago. There are fantastic players in every era. However, if he was playing in today's football, which tends to favour skilful players, he would imo run riot and outscore even Messi and Lewandowski.
Josh Davidson he had the perfect sense on where to be in the box and if you look closely, he actually had a great fist touch. Those skills made sure that he would consistently be in goal scoring position.
- 1,461 goals - 735 official goals in 778 games - 14 goals in 2 World Cups - 68 goals in 62 games for Germany. - 34 goals in 35 UCL games - Better goal average than Ronaldo, Romário and Van Basten - The only one to score a goal in all UCL finals - The only one who was top scorer in the UCL and the World Cup - The only one to score goals in every final - The only one, along with Messi, who has the Ballon d'Or, Golden Shoe, UCL and World Cup - Player with the most goals in a season after Messi - Player with the best goal average in a season, with 85 goals in 60 games - 4x UCL top scorer, behind only Messi and CR7 - Player with most top scorer in the UCL after Messi and CR7 - Player with the most headed goals after CR7, with 144 goals
GOAT, no doubt about it. He would shoot 50 - 60 goals a season now a days. He won everything a player can win. Shot the important goals in the important games. And he stayed a normal 1. Legend....
The best 9 ever because he made his team win both in the league, euro cups and world cups. Set records it took decades to beat. What sets him apart with others is that he litterally always scored the most important goals when it counts. He didn't need penalty's.... He also played in a dangerous era for strikers with kung fun flying tacles and brutal fouls where allowed. Second that comes to my mind is the real Ronaldo but he wasn't as consistent yet more skilled.
Loved him in 1970 World Cup...they scored 10 goals in Group Stage..beat England 3-2...should have beaten Italy in semi,were very unlucky as were better team.W.Germany v Brasil Final would have been 2 best teams in the world,alas it never happened!😢RIP a true Legend.⚽️⚽️⚽️
A lot of his scoring record are still unbeaten or beated recently by Messi/Ronaldo. Over 40 years there was no one even close to him. Some of his record will stand forever like DFB pokal record 78 goals in 62 matches. GOAT on his position.
Beckenbauer and Matthäus. In my view Mätthaus was the best German player of all time, he was certainly better than Beckenbauer who was a great player too though.
In the 80s and 90s that probably would have been true. But I'm not sure if he is fast enough for todays game. But not saying that football wont evolve into a direction where he would be world class again. Football changes fast. Not too long ago people thought that a tall niner was a thing of the past and tiki taka was considered the ultimate thing...and now that is gone..soo who knows.
His team mate Paul Breitner stated, Gerd Müller would score 80 goals per season, due to his uncanny instinct to be in the right spot to score. I saw him playing. He was unbelievable. He did not run a lot , but had a low point of gravity, and was incredibly fast on the first ten meters.
He still is hugely popular here in Germany. Almost mythical to be honest. I watched him play as a kid. His thighs supposedly had an -at that time- insane circumference of 65 cm (25,5 inches) wich he attributed to his Mutti's German Potatoe Salad. In fact, i remember my dad telling me to eat my potatoes - "You will get strong legs, like Gerd!" He was short, with a low center of gravity. He had extreme acceleration over short distances and could turn on the spot. Because of his insane goals and his hard kick, they nicknamed him "The nations Bomber". Every Football Fan in Germany still knows that he was and will always will be: DER BOMBER.
It's 15/8/2021 and I have just heard about the death of Gerd Muller. I am English but despite how often he destroyed many an England side, I loved watching him. Like him, I am not tall but seeing someone who wasn't the giant striker that the 1960's and 1970's teams relied on, gave hope to anyone who wanted to play up front and score - His philosophy seemed to be "Put yourself anywhere in the area and don't make a song and dance about yourself and defenders will not know where you are - THEN POUNCE".
5:16 Last season (2020/21) Robert Lewandowski managed to score 41 goals. He scored only 8 of these goals from the penalty spot (interesting side note: Müller tried 3 penalties in his record season and hit none of them), and he missed 4 matches due to injury. So, Lewandowski scored 41 goals in 30 matches. Eagerly awaiting your "How GOOD is Robert Lewandowski actually" video. :D
All you need to know about this is how Müller's record stood for almost half a century and besides Lewandowski only one player even reached 30 in the meantime...
I've watched football since the 60s. If he played in today's football, I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever - and I realize many will say this is just my opinion, I know - he would score 50+ plus goals a season. More than Haaland!
He was born to score. Trully great player. Does not have much flair , but his effectiveness is inhuman. P.S. can You make video for Raul Gonzalez Blanco? :)
Müller only 80 is a rough one. If you want an example of perfect number 9, there he is. I reckon he would have scored even more goals if it wasn't for the paddocks they played on back then. And within the modern day game he would score 50+ every Bundesliga season alone.
He is arguably the best striker ever, he was born to score goals, his instinct was incredible. Rip Legend, you will never be forgotten 🙏
„…you will never be forgotten…“
…Than you will live forever…
Me: *all ready forgot*
@Peter Williams cough puskas
@@gigaboy5313 not funny
@Peter Williams scoring against England is not an accomplishment
"Very sorry to hear that Gerd Müller has passed away. Loved watching him as a child and learnt so much from doing so. The greatest penalty box goal scorer I’ve ever seen." - Gary Lineker.
This Man knew nothing but goals, goals goals..For a shorter guy in a tough era of football he scored a lot of headers.
Gerd Muller is 🐐 of goalscorers
The headers are really impressive considering his stature
The man was pure instinct. You cannot learn that.
Not that short! He could dunk basketball....as I could at his height.
THANK YOU! TRUUUUTH!!!!!!!!!!
He was a goal machine and without him we would not had so many trophies. My hero who passed away yesterday. I thank the Lord for his life.
When I first saw him I told my dad that this guy couldn't play. He just happened to be where the ball came to. My dad laughed his ass off and told me (I was playing right winger at that time): ""Well, just try to do what he does: happen to be where the ball comes!" - Seriously: Gerd understood this game like nobody else. He simply knew what would happen. He was not born to play football. He was born to get that round leather thing into the net. And that he did like nobody else.
I think this is What the Current Thomas Muller also followed to a degree, he is also very good at reading the ball and he is better off the ball than with it.
You are both so right! Couldnt agree more.
Thank you for this comment
This is the same criticism people have against erling haaland. I'm pretty sure 99% percent of strikers past and present would absolutely love to have this same problem : always being where the ball is in the box
Him and Jimmy Greaves it's incredible how the last time I looked , Greaves scored one goal more than Muller throughout there whole career . both masters of there trades
One of the most underrated players of all time .when people talk about all time greats they never mention him but as a pure goal scorer no one could touch him .not just his quantity of goals but always scored in the big games.
A lot of people who never watched him think he’s only a tap in / header merchant. I was guilty of that as well. He’s actually a terrific dribbler in tight spaces and knew how to lose his defender with his outstanding agility. Arguably the most dangerous goal threat of all time.
The man was pure instinct.
Scored in 2 European Cup (todays CL) finals, in a World Cup final and a Euro final, which his side all won
@@DrMabors He even scored in a fourth goal in their 3rd european final in 1976 during the first 10 minutes or so of the game which didnt count due to offside. Dont know if this decision was correct.
And in the 1974 world cup final he scored at least one more goal (would have been the 3-1) which also didnt count due to offside, and this was definitifely a mistake by the referee.
He is the GOAT. Really the GOAT. If you alone look at his body. But of course there is also his killer instinct. And he makes it look all so easy.
As an England supporter it pains me to say it but yes, Gerd Muller was a brilliant goalscorer, one of the best of all time.
Honesty is the best policy 😉 . Greetings from Germany and all the best.
Why pain
@@Julian-ke2tg Mexico World Cup QF 1970 England 2-3 West Germany.
@@melancholiac oh I forgot sry mate
The best goal poacher of all time! Absolute legend who is forgotten a bit these days because he was not a flashy player to watch but what he brought was results, he was a pure winner!
An individualist who could 'play' with the team and drop back into midfield. I never saw anyone else like that.
I'm brazilian. If I had to make a dream team, I think I would come with Gerd Muller as foward... he did goals even falling, with no angle, heading... his numbers are incredible.
You just had to shoot the ball on Gerd's body and it was a goal.
As fantastic a finisher (in the box) as he was, he was hardly a Ronaldo. My dream team would have a front three of Messi, Pele and Maradona. And I'd want to see a lot of goals.
wont work but sounds nice
An assassin in the box, the best international striker ever. In an era of brutal man to man marking his record speaks for itself. A truly a great striker.
He was phenomenal.
The only player to win Ballon do'r, world cup, UCL, Euro and golden boot.
Surely one of the greatest player of all time.
And he scored in all of those finals.
Bobby Charlton, Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, Paolo Rossi, Zinedine Zidane, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, and Kaka have all done it but i agree one of the greatest gerd4ever
@@pranavkrishnan7859 Bobby Charlton, never won euro, Beckenbauer never won golden boot, Zidane never won golden boot, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, kaka never played in Europe as a result never won Euro.
wrong...ronaldihno won more than him.
@@pranavkrishnan7859 kaka won it but didn’t play in any of the knockout games and only played a handful of minutes if that. If you don’t play in the final as a starter or sub it’s not the same
I was fortunate enough to play a game against Muller while he played with the Ft Lauderdale Strikers. I had never seen anyone kick the ball so hard it was scary!
Which team did you play for
Michael A. Velasquez who r u
I used to play with an amateur team from Ft. Laud while in high school. My coach and the coach for the Strikers were friends and they arranged for us to play against each other for practice. Muller was popular, but the best player in his team was named Cubillas, he was fast, strong, and had tremendous skill with the ball. It seemed effortless when he ran..like a gazelle, you don’t expect them to be so fast...
@@michaela.velasquez4784 Nice👍🏻 It must have been a great experience for you. I only saw him once after he retired sadly when he was the coach of Bayern Munichs second team.
@@cCiIcCo it was a bit surreal, I had watched him on the television during a World Cup and to play on the same field as him was like unbelievable! It became clear just how much we all had to improve if we wanted to play at a high level..
This guy was insane. The consistency with which he was putting those numbers up was incredible, really one of the greatest of all time. Great content Bro
Brilliant. An inspiration. Panther of the muddy pitch. When tackles were hard and defenders were brutal.
8:00 is basically Mueller in a nutshell. Give him the ball in the box and he will manage to get it into the goal somehow, despite beeing surrounded by 2-3 defenders. THIS is the beauty of his goals.
Like paolo Rossi.
@TheGiorgi7 ...LOL. World cup winners ONLY please.
@@FunDuude he won a European Cup. . top champions League goal scorer . ☺️Among other ridiculous records . Lots of greats didn't win it.👍
@@stephencooper7459 .Hmm, why are you telling me this, Above I listed what he won. he's on my GOAT list.
@@FunDuude sorry didn't see that thought you were taking the Mick coz he didn't win World Cup. My bad. 😉he's a role model . His attitude is great . 👍
RIP Gerd. Amazing goalscorer, little powerhouse of a player and seriously, unfairly underrated. The only player England ever had near to him was Jimmy Greaves.
That would have been some strike partnership....Muller and Greaves.
@@themanftheworld8439 wouldnt it just. RIP to them both. Muller had a fantastic work rate too. Greaves was a different player than him so would have worked. Best wishes
The two sportsmen who brought the greatest joy into my life: Muhammad Ali and Gerd Müller. They were not only athletes, they were artists.
Gerd is the most overlooked player in history he doesn’t get his fair share of love
Well i don´t know where you live but in Germany he is the definition of a legend. And if i see the reactions about his death all over the world i would not say that he is rly overlooked. He was a humble men and not a posterboy like Christiano these days. Former brasilian international striker Luís Antônio Corrêa da Costa for example gave himself the stage name Müller based on Gerd Müller.
Lewy following his footsteps
not even close@@uchihaitachi2334
Gerd Muller is without a doubt the greatest striker of all time..He was born to score goals..
Eusebio: exists
Cruyff: exists
Ronaldo: exists
@@tristanbirkerod Eusebio was a better football player but less prolific. Cruyff wasnt a striker and therefore didnt shoot that many goals; he had other amazing qualities. Which Ronaldo do you talk about?
Jimmy Greaves?
Pele?
@@jupphainkas3070 both
In terms of being prolific, that honor goes to Peyroteo. This less known player played just 334 games in his career but he still scored FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR goals, for a ridiculous goal ratio of 1.6287. To give you an idea of HOW ridiculous that goal ratio is, it's HIGHER than CR7 + Messi COMBINED.
That said, Gerd Muller fully deserves a spot as one of the greatest goals scorers of all time, without a doubt: he's one of only SEVEN players EVER to reach 700+ official goals.
All I know is that whenever England were playing Germany we would wait in anticipation for the team lists on TV. If Muller wasn't on it, we cheered, aloud. If he was on it, we groaned and our chins hit our chests as we scratched our heads and dreaded the coming 90 minutes.
Best striker ever. There are interviews with german defenders who played against him and confessed, they still have nightmares about him 😁 Great video by the way 👍
what Breitner and Beckenbauer often said is, without Müllers scoring genius all of the talent and effort of Bayern and german team would have been worth nothing, void, zero, and it couldnt be more true. It is also insane how many decisive goals he scored, the definition of a clutch player. Müller is an icon, a phenomenal striker like no other, the definition of a goal scorer. he is THE epitomization of the #9 striker, was already in his time, and will probably forever be the greatest player in this position.
GOAT on his position, look at the all numbers he have achieved. His sum of appearances in all the games was about 1100 with over 1400 goals scored. You can't argue with numbers.
The best striker of all time and nobody is even close to him.
Messi
Nah, just the best of his time. But in today's football he would definitely not even be among the best as football is way more physical these days.
@@misterbotanica with modern training and diet, he would be among the best.
@@misterbotanica His skill is different and unique. It has nothing to do with physical things. He knew where the goal is. You cannot learn this.
@@antichalgin19antichalgin31 Messi is not a striker
The top goal scorer in the world ever. He scored at every level of the game..club, Europe and world cup. His scoring rate is phenomenal.
The Greatest of all great No 9s... .Franz Beckenbauer said " He is not the best player in the German team,...But he is the most important"......Viva Der Bomber.
I would never profess to know more than the Kaiser but to me Gerd should have worn the number 11 or 10.
@@FunDuude why?
@@gerryc2851 why not?
@@FunDuude the historic number for a centre forward is 9 he wore the right number.
@@gerryc2851 I'm sorry. I was stuck on the traditional English 4-4-2 system where 9 is a Striker (usually a target player)
and
10 is Centre forward usually a fast poacher. I didn't know #11 was considered a left Wing position.
I would say, not many people remember this guy. He deserves better. He is like a super great surgeon. Narrow specialty - score a goal. But he was best at it.
yeah he was crazy
he is being remembered in germany - especially for his humbleness which makes him stand out compared to his other legendary teammates
He is very much remembered in Germany! Constantly mentioned and my dad would always tell stories on how illogical he was.
I also remember a popular tv ad for a milk drink aired around 2014 involving Ger and Thomas Müller.
Paul Breitner has clearly stated he owes everything to Gerd as he would surely had not had the same career without him. I don't think you can get any testimonial better than that. Paul Breitner is a living legend
because his family doesn't want a contract with EA and that's why he's not an icon there? everyone with basic football knowledge knows gerd muller.
Rest In Peace legend. Your contribution to the greatest game in the world will never be forgotten
His center of gravity was quite low, that gave him body stability and body solidity (the parts of his body went into the same direction) which gave him an advantage of 50-100 milliseconds to accommodate himself for shooting to goal optimally.
I was born 40 km away from the town he is born called Nördlingen. Some day in the 80`s we played against "Nördlingen". If i sit down in the clubhouse i saw a photo from Gerd and there was written: 180 goals in one season in Germany called A-Jugend(last step before adults). I can`t believe but its true and in this moment i understood how well i can play soccer and what is possible. And...if you are such a big player and you are always down to earth and totally restrained charakter there is only one word: Idol.
I forgot to put the poll at first but it's there now, apologies. Been working a lot to bring something that's really special to me and this was at the back of my mind:
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Hey UA-cam made me cut out a bit of the video at 8:59, I just mentioned he scored all of bayerns goals against Real Madrid and that they faced saint ettiene in the final
The best ! And the most deadly striker of all time, was Romario “ el baxinho”
That World Cup total of goals stood for years.....until Ronaldo broke it in the 2006 World Cup. That's how good and prolific Müller was. Miroslav Klose since beat it in 2014. Müller is possibly the best No9 ever.
Even Kloses says" No one will ever reach Müller. Müller is the best. Period." There is an interview on YT.
@@svenbardos6637 Miroslav Klose is well underrated. All time top scorer in the World Cup, winner of said cup, yet I don't believe he fully gets the credit he deserves.
Just Fontaine's tournament record will take some beating though; 13 goals and only 7 games.
@@Britonbear That's some mad record: basically two World Cup totals in one tournament. That was the 1970 tournament, right? 13 goals. Jesus.
@@56postoffice No that was 1958 in Sweden.
The best thing about him was he was totally humble, grounded and nice to everyone, especially to the fans, if there were 1000 people who wanted a photo, autograph or just talk he took time for them.. Rest in Peace Gerd!
The best striker ever in the real sense of the word. His job is to score and that is what he does. He'll lurk around the penalty area and no matter how many try to mark him, he'll score. I think he's the only player to score more goals than the number of games he played for the country.
Yes, 68 goals in 62 matches.
Scored over 150 offside goals
@@Joshflemin how do you know?
There was a jewish striker who played for Germany in the 1920s. 14 goals in 6 games. He was killed by the nazis and "erased" from the history books till 1959.
@@Zino027 Thanks, I didn't know that.
Always just being in the right spot, wasting no time to get the ball into the net. When the goalie and defenders, well, even his attacking team-mates try to grasp where the ball is and what could be done in the current game situation: Gerd Müller had already kicked it... and scored. Be it with either foot, head, shoulder, his back, even his bottocks. Surely amongst the GOAT attackers.
Great selection of footage, thanks :)
Particularly fascinating to see the early film of Gerd Muller. Along with Cruyff and Beckenbauer, Gerd was the player I grew up admiring in football in my very early years. Gerd Muller was simply a genius at scoring goals, at every level, and the most natural at putting the ball in the back of the net I've ever seen. The greatest goalscorer ever imo. R.I.P.
As well as being an amazing player for scoring goals with crazy regularity, I believe he is the only person to have scored in a World Cup final, a European Championship final and a European Cup final. Someone correct that if it is wrong (the closest I found was Zidane, who also won them all but didn't score in the Euro 2000 final).
I think you might be right, Puskas was my first thought but he was nowhere close to scoring in a euro final
You're right. He's the only one to score in these three competitions.
Mario Mandzukic, has also scored in both the UCL and world cup final bit unfortunately missed out due to not ever progressing far enough in the euros
Indeed he did, in a world cup, europian championship, champions league, intercontinental finals.
He has a better goal per game ratio in CL , international and overall than both messi and ronaldo. He won every single competition during his career. For me he is a top 5 all time player. One of most underrated player when ppl talk about messi, ronaldo, ronaldinho, ronaldo, zidane, diving Neymar, and many more
He scored and won them all.
Before my time. Didn't know much about him until I heard he passed today. HOMIE WAS NASTY THO!!! Had an eye for goal like all the great forwards. Something a coach can't teach. Either you have it or you don't. And Muller def had it. And from the comments and news I can tell he left a huge affect on Bundisliga, German football, and the German people as a whole.
RIP GERMAN LEGEND! The football world mourns for you today "Der Bomber".
who else is watching after he passed away? rest in peice gerd.
I am German and grew up with Gerd Müller. To this day he is still the best striker I've ever seen
He got the instinct and skills while playing on the streets like Maradona. Nowadays young players get tactically disciplined and you don't see that skills not very often anymore.
Gerd war eine Laune der Natur, wie Ali oder Maradona.
RIP Der Bomber! I will never forget to mention you as one of the greatest strikers to ever play the game.
Gerd should be 10 out of 10 in everything and 10 in x factor. He made it look so easy what he did. He was so fast in short sprints like Messi or Maradona. He was other worldly in his ability to always put the ball in the back his adaptability in all competitions under pressure was 10/10. Just because he didn't look like a pretty boy ready for marketing machines or celebrity status or wasn't Hispanic or Mediterranean doesn't mean he wasn't one of THE BEST.
Yea no Germans in your top players lol that's funny. Ethnocentrism goes in ALL directions. Leave it out for THE TRUTH.
I respect your video I'm am not saying YOU are being ethnocentric I'm just speaking about the masses; you did a fine job here. Thank you for honoring this deserving genius of the real football the one you play with your feet and a sport played all over the world by the most people!!
I feel like you need to do the amazing Beckenbauer next ;)
Great video as always!
I have 2 personal suggestions if I may:
1) Chalana - 2nd best player in Benfica history in my dad's opinion
2) The amazing Lev Yashin, we need some gk love!
yeah Beckenbauer should be coming soon
Are you portuguese?
@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT Claro ;)
"dann macht es bumm, ja und dann krachts. Und alles schreit: der Müller machts!" best striker of all time!
Müllers 1974 goal vs. Netherland was maybe the best penalty box action by a single player within 2 seconds. If you watch that goal 20 times in slow motion and recognize what he was doing in that 2 seconds....then you know how great he was. Stopping the ball in the opposite direction of 3 opponents to let them run into the dead field while others would have taken the ball directly on the goal from 5 meters. He didnt on purpose. After stopping the ball he jumped to the ball in a 180 degree turning jump maybe 5 centimeters above the ground to gain perfect the shooting position without any opponent players. Watch his left leg at that goal. Most players would tear everything in their knee. Goal scoring at its perfect best.
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I just can't believe that the rise of Bayern and the Rise of Muller Coincided . Franz Beckanbauer , Sepp Meier.
Paul Breitner and Uli Hoeneß were decent too.
@@Britonbear Sorry forgot to mention them . They weren't just decent , they were great . That whole team was amazing . I mean most people ignore the fact that all eleven players were amazing and really really fascinating to watch . It's like if Leicester built an almost all England squad and won 5 CLs , 10 PLs, 3 ELs , 10 FA Cups , 10 League Cups in just 15 years . Utter insanity .
RIP Gerd Müller, you will be remembered as nothing short of a legend. ❤️
Thank you Gerd, without you we wouldn't have those super cool Adidas trainers.
#GOAT 10/10
Bayern Munich won't never be today's Bayern Munich without Gerd Müller!
He is the greatest & best number 9 has ever played for Bayern Munich & Germany!
If he would play through the last 20 years; keep scoring goals, winning titles with Bayern Munich & Germany. He would be awarded with more Ballon D'Or & many individual honors deservily than he had.
RIP Legend "Der Bomber" Gerd Müller!
Rest in Peace Muller 🏆
Legends Never Die
RIP. Really underrated player. Way more than just a poacher
Muller is definitely one of the most underrated and demonized players of all time.
He should easily have the best first touch in the penalty box of all time, really good with his back against the goal as well. He can literally get past 2-3 players in the box in like half a second and then take a damn quick strong shot with good accuracy with either foot, don't think there's anyone else in the history of football who can do that. With his back to the goal ability and his high football IQ it's fair to say that he should definitely have been at least a top class pivot. His headers were also crazy good for someone of his size, should be one of the top 10 headers of all time, maybe even top 5.
Yes, he was arguably the best poacher of all time, but he was also much much much more than 'just a poacher'
In terms of peak ability I think he's right below the pele maradona messi and brazilian ronaldo. His only 'weakness' is that he doesn't have much ability to bring the ball forward and make proper dribbling runs from deep and because of his height you can't really just boot the ball forward and expect him to get the ball while hustling with defenders. But even then the gap between him and those four in terms of peak ability is pretty small imo.
All things considered I think he's definitely at the very least a top 4 player of all time, maybe even 2nd best after pele. He didn't just score lots of goals, he scored lots of really important goals as well. 14 goals in 13 games at the world cup, including two goals at the 1970 WC semis, the crucial goal against poland to get germany to the WC finals in 1974 and ofc the winning goal against holland to win the 1974 WC. Besides that he also scored 4 goals in the 1972 euros semis and finals.
And that's not even mentioning his insane scoring stats and his record breaking year of 85 goals. Messi broke the record in 2012 but muller still had a far better goal per game ratio
OMG that small of a guy, Dude just look at those finishes like he can read the mind of blockers and the GK.
I knew he had unbelivble scoring record...What i Didn't know that he is "turning point i Bayerns history"...him Sep Mayer and Beckenbauer...I didn't know he had such an influence and that he pretty much made Bayern a great club...
Rummenigge as well.2x Ballon D'or winner.
@@dilshadareen8455 yes but Rummenige is generation afther...Bayern was already great club with european trophies...Muller is "pioneer" corner stone of Bayern becoming a great club...he brought them first European trophy and they also became german leading club...which wasn't the case before Muller came they were avarage...Muller Beckenbauer and Sep Maier...Pioneers they made Bayern from avarage to great club...
Franz Beckenbauer stated, that Bayern Munich would not exist in its current form, without Gerd Müller’s goals.
He layer the foundation for the success.
@@noledelija1817 Rummenigge was a part of that Bayern side that laid the foundations for its future , it just happened when he was in his early days of his career .
Loving it! When you listen to the narrative while watching this infinite stream of his goals it almost becomes hypnotising😃
He wasn´t the best player, but he was effective as hell. Shot from every angle with enormous power and had an incedible instinct where to stand. A true legend.
He could 'play' as well - watch him in midfield in the European Cup Final 1975.
@@Ruda-n4h I've never said, that the couldn't play. I'm just saying, he wasn't the best ;)
You are right, he wasn't the best. he is just in the top5 of all time
@@nicolagianaroli2024 when it comes to goals, of course. But Top 5 in general? Not in my world, sorry.
@@Ruda-n4h in this match you can see that he was a surprisingly 'modern' player - at least in regards to tactics.
He was also a pretty good passing player, especially in small spaces. I think guardiola would have loved him as a player.
It’s literally illegal how underrated you are, you put nothing but 10/10 quality videos.please never stop one day you’ll be recognized by millions one day 🙏🏿🙏🏿
Thanks man, I got something really cool coming this Saturday, I think you guys will enjoy it very much
Rest in peace, Bomber.
Gerd Muller is sure between the 10 players more greatest of all the Times!
Simply the Best of all Time!!!!
Greatest striker of all time as per goals to games ratio. One of my favourite soccer players of all time along with George Best, Franz Beckenbauer, Lev Yashin, Paul Breitner, Alfredo di Stefano, Paola Maldini and Lothar Matthaus.
Müller had to play with a harsher offside rule and not much protection from being fouled by the opposition. I think in present day football he would even out score Messi and Ronaldo.
You are correct.
Slide tackles from the side were normal.
As was playing without shin guard.
As long as you hit the ball it was no foul.
I like to see how the current players would hold up with the old rules from the 1970’s.
@@wolfman9028 the game would be much slower and most great player would be often injured because they were “developed” for an entirely different style of play
@@nationalprussialism4880 the discussion has nothing to do with game speed.
The discussion is about goal poachers.
This is about instinct, you have it or not,
and I have to say, there is no one better than Gerd Müller.
At that time player were not developed, they just discovered them in lower leagues, and it was the coach/managers job to form a team from the available talent.
I cannot say that those players had on average more injuries as today.
Also, what you call slower game is due to the fact that they played man cover, you needed a lot of stamina to play.
This has no relevance on anyone’s performance. The tactics were different.
You can go by stats for goal poacher.
And to negate the lower skills of the defenders from that area, the only option is to look at the performance in the national teams.
These were best best players from that area.
If you look there, Gerd Müller is #3 on the list with 1.09 goal per game.
This is why you can not compare player or playing styles from different areas.
In my opinion there will not be the best player of all time.
If you reached the world class level, there is no more to gain.
This world class pedestal need to be long enough to place all the players who earned the title „world class“ fit on there.
Also worse shoes and heavier balls.
He scored over 150 offside goals
Awesome video!! Btw, where did you find all these vintage videos???
Condoglianze alla famiglia, grande giocatore, veloce ,preciso, puntuale ,tecnico ,aveva tutto ,riposa in pace ,ciao Gerd 🇩🇪
Exactly the type of Striker a coach dreams about...no messing around, no pretty but ineffective grandstanding or trying to look good...Gerd Müller would score when nobody else would. Even when the entire team had a bad day...one corner kick to Müller...goal.
Your 1:2 in the 80 min....Müller would somehow score two goals ..headers, bicycle kicks, volleys, alone infront of the Goalkeeper...left....right...from near or a far...he was so hard to play.
Him, Van Basten and Ronaldo (The Brazilian El Phenomenon) we're the absolute Endlevel - each with unique playing style re ppl representing their countries play culture....
Van Basten - athletic
Müller - clinical
Ronaldo - technical
Amazing video man. So much time and thought went into this fs. GEM 💎 of a VIDEO!🎉
I've watched football for many years but I'm not someone who thinks players were necessarily better 40 or 50 years ago. There are fantastic players in every era. However, if he was playing in today's football, which tends to favour skilful players, he would imo run riot and outscore even Messi and Lewandowski.
Hardly ever missed a chance to score. Probably the purist goalscorer ever.
Because he was a goal hanger
@@Joshflemin He wasn't, really.
Josh Davidson he had the perfect sense on where to be in the box and if you look closely, he actually had a great fist touch. Those skills made sure that he would consistently be in goal scoring position.
Gerd Müller was always at the right place at the right time to make a goal!
Thanks for this great Gerd Müller tribute video!!!!
Puskas and Müller, the two Greatest Strikers of all Time...
Same 2 I picked.
Rip legend
No one in your list can bring a second division team to become best team in the world
- 1,461 goals
- 735 official goals in 778 games
- 14 goals in 2 World Cups
- 68 goals in 62 games for Germany.
- 34 goals in 35 UCL games
- Better goal average than Ronaldo, Romário and Van Basten
- The only one to score a goal in all UCL finals
- The only one who was top scorer in the UCL and the World Cup
- The only one to score goals in every final
- The only one, along with Messi, who has the Ballon d'Or, Golden Shoe, UCL and World Cup
- Player with the most goals in a season after Messi
- Player with the best goal average in a season, with 85 goals in 60 games
- 4x UCL top scorer, behind only Messi and CR7
- Player with most top scorer in the UCL after Messi and CR7
- Player with the most headed goals after CR7, with 144 goals
GOAT, no doubt about it. He would shoot 50 - 60 goals a season now a days. He won everything a player can win. Shot the important goals in the important games. And he stayed a normal 1.
Legend....
The best 9 ever because he made his team win both in the league, euro cups and world cups. Set records it took decades to beat. What sets him apart with others is that he litterally always scored the most important goals when it counts. He didn't need penalty's.... He also played in a dangerous era for strikers with kung fun flying tacles and brutal fouls where allowed.
Second that comes to my mind is the real Ronaldo but he wasn't as consistent yet more skilled.
Loved him in 1970 World Cup...they scored 10 goals in Group Stage..beat England 3-2...should have beaten Italy in semi,were very unlucky as were better team.W.Germany v Brasil Final would have been 2 best teams in the world,alas it never happened!😢RIP a true Legend.⚽️⚽️⚽️
Incredible goal scorer cant believe it also he was top scorer of Europe his peak was crazy
A lot of his scoring record are still unbeaten or beated recently by Messi/Ronaldo. Over 40 years there was no one even close to him. Some of his record will stand forever like DFB pokal record 78 goals in 62 matches. GOAT on his position.
He is the most underrated player of all time
Goat of Germany
That's Beckenbauer but Müller is also up there
Beckenbauer and Matthäus. In my view Mätthaus was the best German player of all time, he was certainly better than Beckenbauer who was a great player too though.
I am a Big Bayern Fan, but never have seen him life. But my father did, and he always said that he has never seen a better Striker.
Beckenbauer said, that Gerd Müller in our times would score not less but more goals, because of zone defence instead of one-on-one defence.
In the 80s and 90s that probably would have been true. But I'm not sure if he is fast enough for todays game. But not saying that football wont evolve into a direction where he would be world class again. Football changes fast. Not too long ago people thought that a tall niner was a thing of the past and tiki taka was considered the ultimate thing...and now that is gone..soo who knows.
His team mate Paul Breitner stated, Gerd Müller would score 80 goals per season, due to his uncanny instinct to be in the right spot to score.
I saw him playing. He was unbelievable.
He did not run a lot , but had a low point of gravity, and was incredibly fast on the first ten meters.
@@thefearhawk8805
Gerd Muller was rapid fast.
In Fut Icon stats 99 acceleration and maybe 88 sprint speed
He still is hugely popular here in Germany. Almost mythical to be honest. I watched him play as a kid. His thighs supposedly had an -at that time- insane circumference of 65 cm (25,5 inches) wich he attributed to his Mutti's German Potatoe Salad. In fact, i remember my dad telling me to eat my potatoes - "You will get strong legs, like Gerd!" He was short, with a low center of gravity. He had extreme acceleration over short distances and could turn on the spot. Because of his insane goals and his hard kick, they nicknamed him "The nations Bomber". Every Football Fan in Germany still knows that he was and will always will be: DER BOMBER.
quality video mate
legendary
thanks man
Best goal scorer of all time. No competition
RIP Der Bomber - Germany's greatest player IMO.
I think he is a GOAT. At those times he played, the players didnt earned really much. So they did that sports for true passion.
Bahhhhh
Der Bomber der Nation ! He was called.. Well today there is no Nation at all.. 🥺🇬🇧🤗🇩🇪😎🍿😎🍿
It's 15/8/2021 and I have just heard about the death of Gerd Muller. I am English but despite how often he destroyed many an England side, I loved watching him. Like him, I am not tall but seeing someone who wasn't the giant striker that the 1960's and 1970's teams relied on, gave hope to anyone who wanted to play up front and score - His philosophy seemed to be "Put yourself anywhere in the area and don't make a song and dance about yourself and defenders will not know where you are - THEN POUNCE".
5:16 Last season (2020/21) Robert Lewandowski managed to score 41 goals.
He scored only 8 of these goals from the penalty spot (interesting side note: Müller tried 3 penalties in his record season and hit none of them), and he missed 4 matches due to injury. So, Lewandowski scored 41 goals in 30 matches. Eagerly awaiting your "How GOOD is Robert Lewandowski actually" video. :D
All you need to know about this is how Müller's record stood for almost half a century and besides Lewandowski only one player even reached 30 in the meantime...
Lewandowski scored 41 goals in 29 matches
Gerd is GOAT. Yea he doesn't dribble like Messi or Pele did, but he he was a goal machine.
I'd have Muller with Cruyff & Garincha as my post war/pre 80s front three for my all time XI of that era.
R.I.P Bomber der Nation 🇩🇪🔥
I've watched football since the 60s. If he played in today's football, I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever - and I realize many will say this is just my opinion, I know - he would score 50+ plus goals a season. More than Haaland!
Because of him I became a Bayern and West Germany fan, he was my idol. He was the greatest striker for me
He was born to score. Trully great player. Does not have much flair , but his effectiveness is inhuman.
P.S. can You make video for Raul Gonzalez Blanco? :)
He could turn in a phone booth with 5 people inside it.
Is there also a ball in it? Because if not I can do that too
I saw the guy in action.
He could outplay his opponent on a postage stamp without stepping on the edge.
@@wolfman9028 Yes. He could do that as I was told by someone who trained with Gerd.
Müller only 80 is a rough one. If you want an example of perfect number 9, there he is. I reckon he would have scored even more goals if it wasn't for the paddocks they played on back then. And within the modern day game he would score 50+ every Bundesliga season alone.
It took 50 years to break his record in Germany .It speaks volume how great he was
363 goals a record that even Lewandowski probably would not break
Sorry, ist was 365 Goals !
Gerd was the greadest Striker ever .
I Knew it was around that number I was close btw 😅
The greatest striker of all time !