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Gerd Müller

German professional footballer renowned for his prolific goal-scoring.

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Gerd Müller is best known for One of the greatest goalscorers in football history, winning the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Champions League, and Ballon d'Or. On Dead or Alive, Gerd Müller is listed in the World Cup Soccer Legends and Sports Legends categories, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Gerd Müller is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: One of the greatest goalscorers in football history, winning the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Champions League, and Ballon d'Or.
Listed under: World Cup Soccer Legends and Sports Legends

About Gerd Müller

In 74 European club games he scored 65 goals. He also had the highest ratio of 0.97 goals per game in the European Cup, scoring 34 goals in 35 matches. 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, before winning the 1970 Ballon d'Or. In 1972, he won the UEFA European Championship and was the top goalscorer, scoring two goals in the final. Two years later, he scored 4 goals in the 1974 FIFA 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.

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Gerd Müller is known for One of the greatest goalscorers in football history, winning the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Champions League, and Ballon d'Or.

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