Beckenbauer on Gerd Müller:
“I’m often asked about Gerd Müller’s importance for FC Bayern and German football,” Beckenbauer said. “And my answer is that football is very much about goals. You can play well, but without goals you won’t win. Gerd Müller was quite simply the greatest guarantee of goals in the history of football.” According to one of the greatest players ever, it was Müller’s goals that “launched Bayern into the international sphere in which is finds itself today. Gerd is the origin. In my eyes, he’s the most important player in the history of FC Bayern. Sometimes you get classifications like ‘most valuable player’. He was that. Gerd was the MVP. In that respect, he was also the most important.”
RIP