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Top facts you need to know about Thomas Muller

Here's a look at the top facts you need to know about Thomas Muller

Thomas Muller is a German soccer player who plays for Bayern Munich and has played for the German national team 100 times. 

From 2009 at the point when he took his professional bow forward for the Bavarians, little has impeded Thomas Muller's relentless rise to the highest point of the world football. 

Bayern Munich's vice-captain is a

World Cup

winner with Germany and a treble-winner with Bayern Munich, the 30-year-old is as of now one of the

Bundesliga

's greatest players. 

The player's job can be depicted as an attacking all-rounder, an adaptable player who can play in all of the attacking positions. 

As Muller got through the youth academy, he was considered fundamentally as a midfielder, yet after breaking into the main team he has been utilized in additionally offensive positions. 

Both Bayern Munich and the Germany national side under Joachim Low regularly play a 4-2-3-1 system, and he is frequently part of the three offensive players behind the center forward. 

Thomas Muller

can play in all of the offensive roles yet for the most part plays as the second striker for Bayern, and on the right flank for Germany. 

He has been utilized in an attacking position and sometimes as a second striker as well. In spite of the fact that Muller seems not to have great physical quality, he has been commended for his positioning, pace, mindfulness, strategic knowledge, and development. 

He has been especially known for his composure, Germany director Joachim Low once said he is "impervious to pressure" and previous

Bayern Munich

director Louis van Gaal said he has enormous mental quality. 

He is brilliant in scoring and creating goals, Muller has been praised in the media for his insightful play off the ball and capacity to time his offensive runs, he depicts himself as a footballer who can discover spaces yet not especially great at one-on-ones.

Muller calls himself Raumdeuter, which means "interpreter of space" 

Germany head coach Joachim Low expressed during the 2014 World Cup that Muller "is an exceptionally irregular player and you can't generally anticipate his lines of running, however, he has one point and that is 'how might I score a goal?'". 

Alongside with his attacking abilities, the player has likewise been lauded by fans for his cooperation, endurance, and defensive work-rate.

Here's a look at the top facts you need to know about Thomas Muller:

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Clinical touch at an early age

Muller was born in Weilheim, Bavaria, his first club was TSV Pahl and it was obvious since the beginning that he was bound for extraordinary things. 

Family companion Wolfgang Tuffentsamer reviews, "He stood apart playing for Pahl right off the bat. I recollect one season where we netted 165

goals

, and he scored 120 of those goals." 

From Pahl to professional

When he was 11 years old in 2000, he left Pahl for Munich and the greatest club in Germany,

FC Bayern Munich

Advancing consistently through the youth system, in 2007, he was a member of the team who ended up runners-up in the U-19 Bundesliga. By the start of the 2009/08 campaign, he was at that point on the edges of the main XI. 

6 goals shy of World Cup record

To a great extent was Muller's general impact at the 2010 FIFA World Cup that he was voted

Best Young Player

of the competition. 

He likewise won the

Golden Boot

as the best goal scorer in South Africa and proceeded in

Brazil

to add another five at the 2014 competition, standing above Maradona in the unsurpassed World Cup goalscorers ranking. 

All for a good cause

Thomas Muller is an agent for the

YoungWings Foundation

, which aids grieving and traumatized children and adolescents that have experienced a loss. 

The player propelled an advent schedule with the entirety of the returns heading off to the Foundation. 

"I need to do all I can to guarantee the issue is paid attention to by society and that those influenced get the consideration and help that they need," he said.

A lot to live up to

At Bayern Munich, the name Muller is synonymous with goals and Thomas has demonstrated to be a commendable replacement to the unbelievable Bomber der Nation, Gerhard Muller. The name is additionally the name of a renowned dairy brand, and the

Bundesliga

record scorer collaborated with his contemporary namesake for a TV promotion. 

"The lad's fast, he's got a good technique - he will be an incredible player," Gerd revealed to the German newspaper Bild. 

A great commendation without a doubt from a striker who scored 365

goals

in 427 top-flight matches.

Already a Bayern legend

The striker has played 617 games for FC Bayern Munich and is currently positioned sixth regarding the number of matches played for footballers in a Bayern side. 

With his 196 goals for Bayern Munich, Thomas Muller is 4th

top goalscorer

for the team since the Bundesliga started, behind Gerd Muller with 506,

Robert Lewandowski

with 230 and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge with 217.

Bayern's youngest UCL brace and hat-trick scorer

Muller netted his first brace in the Champions League on September 15, 2009, away at Maccabi Haifa's in a 3-0 win, making him FCB's most youthful scorer of a brace in the UEFA Champions League. 

On 1 May 2010, Thomas Muller at that point netted all of the 3 goals in a 3-1 win against

VfL Bochum

, turning into the most youthful Bayern Munich footballer to score a hat-trick for the main team. He was 20 years and 230 days at that point and remains Bayern Munich's youngest

hat-trick

scorer in Bundesliga ever.

Most assists in 2019-2020 campaign

Thomas Muller set another individual record with 20 assists up until now in this Bundesliga campaign and is just the second footballer behind Kevin De Bruyne in the 2014/15 campaign for Wolfsburg to provide 16 assists from 25 Bundesliga matches since itemized information assortment started. 

Since records started, he is additionally the only footballer to have more than 100

assists

to his name. 

German record goalscorer in the Champions League

Thomas Muller has scored 44 goals in the UEFA Champions League, he is the 

best German goalscorer

 in the top standings European club tournament. 

Muller is additionally just one game away from surpassing German record playing Philipp Lahm, who played 12 games in the 

UEFA Champions League

Flick and Muller

Ahead of league restart due to COVID-19 outbreak, Muller along with

Alphonso Davies

and Manuel Neuer was the only footballer to play in each of the 21 games under manager Hansi Flick. 

During that time he had been associated with 21 goals scoring 8 goals and providing 13 assists, just Robert Lewandowski has been associated with more goals under the current Bayern manager with 24. 

On the way to record champions

In eleven years, He has won Bundesliga title nine times for Bayern Munich. Muller holds the record alongside his previous teammate

Franck Ribery

and there are as yet a couple of titles to be lifted ahead of 2023. 

"

Thomas Muller

has been shaping the club for over ten years with extraordinary football and his agreeable way," says board member Oliver Kahn about Thomas Muller.

He has played for Bayern Munich his entire professional career

Muller joined Bayern Munich in 2009 in the wake of going through a year on the club's second team. In his first year as a youthful player for Bayern Munich in 2010, he assisted the club to win the national trophy at the point when the team won

Hertha BSC

He was named as the

greatest newcomer

of the 2009-2010 campaign and was voted to be in the Bundesliga team of the campaign. The player credited manager Thomas Van Gaal with his brilliant achievement.

The unique player in the world

Thomas Muller is one of those uncommon players, whose performance and abilities make them difficult to categorize. However, possibly not as perceived as others in his position, he has for quite some time been one of the most dangerous AMF on the planet on account of his unique style, intelligent movement and capacity to continually ending up at the correct spot at the perfect time.

Besides, he appears to consistently make correct decisions with quick thinking even at full sprint. 

Muller has made stunning progress in his football, winning the Adidas Golden Boot for ending up as the top scorer at the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa in the wake of scoring five times and giving three assists and in his last international effort, netted 5 goals again the Brazil World Cup 2014. 

The Best Young Player of the 2010 World Cup was a key figure of Germany manager Joachim Low's side because of his character just as his consistent desire to win. On 5 March 2019, Low unbelievably declared that he would plan without Thomas Muller for the future, alongside with Jerome Boateng and Mats Hummels. Muller said in the wake of the statement that he was "angry and surprised" why the head coach decided to drop them.

In the 2010 World Cup Muller was offended by the then Argentine manager Diego Maradona, who stated that he confused Muller with a ball boy and he would not sit in a similar question and answer session as him. 

Maradona's statement and activities ended up costly for Argentina as the player opened the doors and netted the first goal over Argentina in their 4-0 loss against Germany.

Muller has played for the Bavarians over 11 years and in the wake of making his accomplishment there as an expert under the direction of mentor Louis van Gaal, he has since proceeded to win any title accessible in club football, involving the FIFA Club World Cup and the UEFA Champions League.

He’s married to a model

Thomas was born in Weilheim and experienced childhood in Pahl, which turned into the focal point of media consideration during his World Cup adventures. 

His first club was TSV Pahl and it was apparent since the beginning that he was intended for greater things. 

Muller's parents are Gerhard and Klaudia, and Simon, his brother who is more than two years younger than Thomas. Truth be told, Muller did lots of things when he was youthful, something or other was being married. Muller was married to a celebrity, named Lisa in 2009 when he was just 19 years of age. Muller wedded his long-time sweetheart Lisa Trede, a professional equestrian who takes a shot at a homestead, in the wake of being engaged to her for a long time. 

His wife is a professional sportswoman herself in showjumping. They go to Munich's significant equestrian gatherings together as regularly as Muller's football responsibilities permit it, in spite of the fact that he openly concedes that watching Lisa contending in the saddle is "more harrowing than being out on the pitch". 

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Other than football, he has additionally given his chance to different endeavors and in June 2011 he turned into an agent for YoungWings, a foundation that supports kids who have endured trauma. 

He is definitely not like the other present-day footballers, you won't hear any uncommon reports about him falling out of a nightclub or being found speeding or drunk driving in the city.

Indeed, even his hairstyle is really agreeable, liking to keep his mop in its normal shading and to some degree unkempt. 

While the remainder of his peers are all crushing into the cutting edge shirts, Muller inclines toward the more conventional baggy look. 

Calm, shrewd, and professional in all aspects, he is a footballer who lets his work on the pitch do the job. 

Regardless of football, he is a man who prefers to keep things on the low and would prefer to invest tranquil energy at home with his wife, who is similarly altogether different from a typical spouse of an athlete. On Christmas Eve, 2008, The player proposed to his better half at his parent's house.

Some fast facts:

  • Date of birth

    : Sep 13, 1989

  • Place of birth

    : Weilheim Germany

  • Age

    : 30

  • Height

    : 1,86 m

  • Citizenship

    : Germany

  • Position

    : Forward - Second Striker

  • Foot

    : right

  • Player agent

    : Kogl & Partner GmbH

  • Current club

    : Bayern Munich Bayern Munich

  • Joined

    : Jul 1, 2009

  • Contract expires

    : 30.06.2023

  • Date of last contract extension

    : Apr 7, 2020

- Football career at the beginning: Born in Weilheim, Bavaria, the player's first club was TSV Pahl. He was bound for success from early stages as one of his Family companion Wolfgang Tuffentsamer depicts the situation as, "He was all different player at the point when he played for Pahl" 

 

- Professional football career at the beginning: When he was 11 years old in the year 2000, he left Pahl for Munich and the greatest club in Germany, Bayern Munich. Advancing consistently over the years, He later proceeded to runner-up in the U-19 Bundesliga. By the start of the 2009/08 campaign, he was at that point on the edges of the main team.

 

- Senior team debut: In 2008, the player was given a senior side debut, at FCB by Jurgen Klinsmann, yet it was under Klinsmann's successor

Louis van Gaal

that his football pushed ahead, the Dutch manager used Muller for each and every league match in the 2009/10 Bundesliga campaign, just as the UEFA Champions League last, which Bayern defeated against

Inter Milan

at last. At the point when van Gaal left the club, a furious Muller stated, "It's disappointing for me since he was my coach. Bayern Munich are losing an extraordinary mentor." 

 

- Achievements at first World Cup: In South Africa, the wonderkid won the brilliant golden boot at the 2010 World Cup with five goals from only 6 matches. He was additionally named the best youthful player of the competition as Germany completed third in that tournament.

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- International Career: Muller has scored 38 goals in 100 international games for Die Mannschaft, remembering most important goals in the World Cup in the 4-1 annihilation of

England

at the 2010 World Cup and first goal in the 4-0 triumph against Argentina in Quarter Final. He added 5 more goals in the 2014 World Cup.

- He had to get stitches after Germany faced Ghana in 2014: On 21 June 2014, Muller's challenge with Ghana defender

John Boye

left him needing stitches in the wake of the game. Muller was appeared on the field bleeding heavily, yet subsequent to getting stitches, said everything with him was fine, regardless of whether he looked, "similar to a fighter." He played the next match against the U.S five days later. He did and scored an amazing goal in that match.

- Club Career: On to his club football career he has played 350 games for Bayern Munich scoring 117 goals from 2008 to 2020. In 2012, He played every match for Bayern Munich as the club won local double and arrived at the UEFA

Champions League final

where he netted a goal against

Chelsea

- Future Road-Map: The 30-year-old striker has quite recently signed another agreement that will keep him at Bayern Munich until 2023, regardless of interest from a large group of gigantic clubs from Europe, including Manchester United prepared to pay an astounding over 30 million euro transfer fee. 

- Muller resemblance with the legend: Thomas Muller's father is called Gerhard however he has no likeness to previous German legend Gerd Mueller, the prestigious 'Der Bomber', and a legend during the 1970s.

Both players have, nonetheless, made a promotion together. Gerhard is on record saying he was an admirer of Thomas' skills. 

- Thomas Muller signed for Bayern when he was 10: In the year 2000, Thomas Muller joined FCB's youth team when he was just matured 10! He joined from TSV Pahl. Imagine joining a team like Bayern Munich at 10 years of age!

- Working the channels: The best goal-scoring German in UEFA Champions League history works as the Bayern Munich's

superstar

. Be that as it may, behind the center forward or driving the defensive line as a false 9, he consistently gives 100 percent, yet just in the event that you're thinking about what precisely his job is, it deserves to remember himself: "

Raumdeuter

"

- The player's nickname: Muller name himself as "Ramdeuter" that in English interprets as 'space interpreter.' He named himself as such in light of the fact that his quality as an offensive player isn't dribbling, yet in passing, shooting, and in discovering gaps. 

- Special Penalties: As Gary Linekar stated about Germans and penalties: "In the end the Germans consistently win." So it was not unexpected that Muller has built up a specific method for scoring in penalties. 

One of his fundamental skills as his former national mentor Low stated, is the mentality and an amazingly cool personality under hectic circumstances. 

Muller has an ideal method to take spot-kicks as instead of taking a gander at the ball while running, he focuses on the goalkeeper, which causes him to kick the ball in opposite direction to where Keeper jumps.

- Muller has numerous shoes: As indicated by Muller's

wife

Lisa, she has stated that Thomas has at least 50 pairs of shoes!

- His best friend is

Bastian Schweinsteiger

: Muller is a good friend with his previous German and Bayern Munich teammate Bastian Schweinsteiger.

-Muller's goal involvement every 112 minutes: In about 12 years with Bayern Munich, Thomas Muller has been directly associated with 346

top-flight goals

, 196 goals, and 150 assists. Implying that Muller has had an influence on a Bayern goal every 112 minutes. 

- Muller is the youngest in the World Cup: Muller has had a great deal to do with World Cups, he has a couple of records, one obviously being the top goal scorer in the 2010 World Cup and the other is that Muller is the youngest to play in two World Cups, one being the South African World Cup in 2010 and the 2014 World Cup, which Germany won. 

Thomas Muller on Social Media

Not being the typical media hungry footballer, The player prefers to avoid the typical style, yet at the same time keeps up a line of communication with his fans through his supporters on different online social media platforms. 

Facebook: https://de-de.facebook.com/es.muellert.wieder

Instagram: Instagram – http://instagram.com/officialmuller

Twitter: https://twitter.com/esmuellert_

 

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