At the BVB captain and Fan-Idol, in Bremen, the Hero of the Otto-democracy, always a cult figure of football: The Bundesliga mourns the loss of striker Manfred castle Mueller.
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How much of the time, the Manfred castle Mueller large, another was that you could see in his late career years, among other things, to his tool. His football
castle müller had landed, as the mid-thirties, at Werder Bremen, and he wore shoes that looked as if they were as old as he himself. They were, of course, black, but especially visible at all corners and Ends mended, by hands that must have been in dealing with needle and thread rather untrained and the shoes frankensteinesk to operate – especially as the Logo of the company that gave Werder Bremen at the time, had been painted by Hand with white paint on the shoes. Who knows why castle müller had developed so much love for the shoes? Maybe it’s because he came from a culture that threw away shoes. Maybe just because you threw away the shoes, with whom you met. And Manni castle müller met very often: 213 Times in 447 Bundesliga games – he is still the fourth-best shooter in the all-time best list of the upper house. And with 135 goals he is the best League shooter from Borussia Dortmund.
captain, crowd favorite and “coach killer”
was The Milieu from the castle müller, was the Ruhr in the post-war period. He was born in Essen, in the year of establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany, and said that he umhinkam two even: playing soccer – and therefore, a instinctive rascal nature to acquire, and secured him to Survive.
castle müller began to play football at VfB 08 Rellinghausen, then moved between Rot Weiss Essen and Bayer Uerdingen back and forth until he landed in 1976 in Dortmund, Germany. He was titled captain, darling of the public, and as a “coach killer”: “The Trainer with whom I am well-come, are still in business. The others are gone,” he said. And he shot so many goals, he also became the theme for the national team. To do not filed more than three callings, but it is, in 1978, national coach Helmut took him in Nicely with the world Cup to Argentina. Previously, he had advised castle müller, publicly, “to stay on the carpet”. Castle müller replied tersely: “I thought we were playing on turf.” Officially castle müller, the German national coach was too old – at the age of 29.
The age should later play a different, more important role in the Vita castle Miller. One of the coaches, which he understood, since his BVB days, Otto Rehhagel, who took him in 1985 to Werder. Castle müller, previously also briefly in Nuremberg, was just at Red-White Oberhausen as a 35-Year-old king became the second League; Rehhagel had, clad in slouch hat, by a tribune from making sure the castle müller corresponded to his Credo: “There is no young and old, but only good and bad players.” Castle müller/Bremen the hero of the Otto Kratie and 1988 with Werder for the first and only Time German champion.
The Idol of a whole Generation
Unforgotten remained primarily a goal against Gerry Ehrmann from 1. FC Kaiserslautern from 1986, which depicted all the instinct castle Miller, and he described himself later as “The Ehrmann holds the Ball, I lie so near the gate, pick myself up again and wants to get back to the center. As I see, such as the Gerry hinpennt in front of you, go to him and nudge’ the Hand the pill out of the Arm. As the Ball falls to the ground, and I shove him in.” After his career at the end of castle müller played for a long time American Football. But he always remained a cult figure in the League. He was maybe the best striker, the top scorer, due to the Miller’s, Hrubeschs, Rummenigges, and how they were all called.
On Monday night, the BVB confirmed, a message of the image, after which the castle müller died on the weekend at the age of 69 in his house in Essen, a natural death.
“He was the Idol of a whole Generation. I have seen him very like to play football,” said BVB Boss Hans-Joachim Watzke.
