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Place of Birth: Nördlingen, Bavaria, Germany
About Gerd Müller
- Gerhard "Gerd" Müller (German pronunciation: ['g???t 'm?l?]; born 3 November 1945) is a German retired footballer.
- A prolific striker renowned for his clinical finishing, especially in and around the six-yard box, he is regarded as one of the greatest players and goalscorers of all time.At international level with West Germany, he scored 68 goals in 62 appearances, and at club level, after 15 years with Bayern Munich, he scored a record 365 goals in 427 Bundesliga games and an international record 66 goals in 74 European club games.
- Averaging more than a goal a game with West Germany, Müller is now 17th on the list of all time international goalscorers, despite playing fewer matches than every other player in the top 25.
- Among the top scorers, he has the third-highest goal-to-game ratio. Nicknamed "Bomber der Nation" ("the nation's Bomber") or simply "Der Bomber", Müller was named European Footballer of the Year in 1970.
- After a successful season at Bayern Munich, he scored ten goals at the 1970 FIFA World Cup for West Germany where he received the Golden Boot as top goalscorer.
- He scored four goals in the 1974 World Cup, including the winning goal in the final.
- Müller held the all-time goal-scoring record in the World Cup with 14 goals for 32 years.
- In 1999, Müller was ranked ninth in the European player of the Century election held by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS), and he was voted 13th in the IFFHS' World Player of the Century election.
- In 2004, Pelé named Müller in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players.
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