Overview
- He would have turned 80 on November 3, 2025, prompting fresh tributes to his career and influence.
- Gerd Müller scored 523 goals for Bayern, including a Bundesliga-record 365, and 68 goals in 62 appearances for West Germany.
- He hit the winner in the 1974 World Cup final, struck twice in the Euro 1972 final, and led Bayern through three straight European Cup triumphs from 1974 to 1976.
- Club leaders and peers, including Franz Beckenbauer and Herbert Hainer, have hailed his foundational role at Bayern, which honored him with a statue at the Allianz Arena.
- Coverage revisits his 26th‑birthday brace versus Liverpool in 1971 and recounts his 1979 move to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, subsequent struggles, an Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 2014, and his death in 2021.