Thomas Müller: FC Bayern striker – career, success, private life
Created: 06/14/2022, 12:47 p.m
Already a living legend at FC Bayern: Thomas Müller.
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The Bayern Munich icon has won just about everything there is to win in football.
Interesting facts about Thomas Müller's career.
Munich – Thomas Müller, born on September 13, 1989 in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria, is one of the most successful and legendary "veterans" of FC Bayern Munich and, thanks to his charming and funny sayings, is THE absolute favorite of his club.
The midfielder and star striker of the German record champions is world champion, champions league winner, FIFA club world champion, ten-time German champion and six-time DFB Cup winner.
In the spring of 2020, FC Bayern Munich's identification figure extended his contract until June 30, 2023. Thomas Müller has been married to his childhood sweetheart Lisa since November 2009.
His wife is a professional horse breeder.
Thomas Müller is intensively involved in social projects such as
B. Nicolaidis YoungWings: Since 2011 he has been an ambassador for the foundation, which supports grieving and bereaved children, young people and adults.
In 2018, before the World Cup in Russia, Müller published a children's book: "My way to the dream club".
Thomas Müller – his career
The son of Gerhard and Klaudia Müller began to “muller” in Weilheim, Upper Bavaria, while he was still at school in 1993 in the TSV Pähl club, before moving to FC Bayern Munich’s youth team in 2000, where he already had his first brands by winning numerous titles sat.
This was followed by appearances for all youth teams.
But it was only after he had passed his A-levels at the "Gymnasium Weilheim" that he turned his hobby into a career: In the spring of 2008, Müller made his debut in the regional league, where he immediately scored a goal as a joker.
Thomas Müller made his debut in the Bundesliga on August 15, 2008: in the 80th minute he came on for Miroslav Klose in the home game against Hamburger SV.
After that, his career continued to pick up speed:
In 2008/09 he was promoted to the second team of FC Bayern Munich's professional squad, but at the same time he also trained with the first team under the then Bayern coach Jürgen Klinsmann.
On his professional debut in the previously founded 3rd division, Müller scored a goal against 1. FC Union.
Just two weeks later, Thomas Müller made his Bundesliga debut against Hamburger SV.
Nevertheless, he mainly played in the second team, for which he scored 15 goals in 32 games.
In 2009, Müller, who can be used both as a striker and in attacking midfield, signed the final professional contract with FC Bayern Munich.
His first game in the Champions League came in March 2009 in the round of 16 against Sporting Lisbon, which Bayern Munich won 7-1.
In September 2009 he made his debut in the first team, became a regular at Bayern under coach Louis van Gaal and was allowed to play regularly in the Allianz Arena.
Thomas Müller: The greatest successes with FC Bayern
In 2013, the triple of championship, cup win and Champions League title was achieved.
In the 2019/20 season, Müller scored 21 goals, beating Kevin De Bruyne's previous record.
On matchday 10 of the 2019/20 Bundesliga season, he played his 500th game for Munich in a 5-1 draw in Frankfurt.
Up to and including 2020, FC Bayern was able to defend the title as German champion.
In 2020, Bayern brought home the triple of championship, cup win and Champions League title again.
Thomas Müller – his career in the DFB national team
Müller played for the German national team for the first time in a friendly against Ivory Coast in November 2009 - the starting signal for a meteoric rise: At his first World Cup in 2010 in South Africa, Müller was top scorer with five goals and three assists at the age of just 20.
Only Gerd Müller in 1970 and Miroslav Klose in 2006 had done that before him.
He was twice voted Man of the Match and received the Best Young Player award.
At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Müller scored four goals in the three preliminary round games, strengthening his reputation as a World Cup scare with a total of five goals and becoming world champion with the DFB team.
Thomas Müller has received numerous awards for his achievements, including e.g.
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Best Young Player at the 2010 World Cup
Silver Bay Leaf: 2010, 2014
Bavarian Sports Prize: 2010
Member of VDV 11: 2009/10, 2015/16, 2017/18
Trophy Bravo: 2010
World Championship All-Star Team: 2014
Silver Ball at the World Cup: 2014
Bavarian Order of Merit 2019
FourFourTwo:
Best Playmaker in the World 2020
German Reading Prize 2021 for his commitment to promoting reading
Bundesliga Player of the Month: January 2022
At the 2018 World Cup, the German team failed in the preliminary round.
In March 2019, ex-national coach Joachim “Jogi” Löw therefore announced a change in the DFB team.
One of the "victims" is Thomas Müller, who should no longer be part of the German squad in the future.
For the European Championship 2020, which took place in summer 2021 due to Corona, Müller was nominated again for the national team after a break of more than two years.
In the round of 16 in England, however, they missed the opportunity to equalize shortly before the end and could not prevent the elimination.
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Thomas Müller - his funniest sayings
"I've been with FC Bayern for a good two-thirds of my life, so you can't say that I'm with the club or that he's with me - we're fighting for each other.
For me, this club isn't just any employer."
"Our animals (horses; note) are like our children and we have a lot of them that we're allowed to look after."
About his thin calves: "Where there are no muscles, you can don't hurt yourself either!
My calves are so thin that no opponent can hit the bones because you can't see them so well."
"If I'm somewhere and a small child asks me: Show me a few tricks, I have to say: I can't do any tricks.
They always want to see some kind of magic, hold the ball up, turn it four times and stuff like that.
But that was never my area of expertise.”
When asked by a journalist in 2014 what it was like to have narrowly missed out on the “Golden Shoe”: “I'm not really interested in that, the shit.
world champion samma.
The pot hamma.
You can smear that fucking golden shoe behind your ears.”
