GERMAN BOMBER

GERD MUELLER, the name many past goaltender at the world cup will hate to remember,he was a terror to many defenders and keepers at the 1970 and 1974 world cup,where he scored 14 goals,an all time goal scoring record that lasted for 32 years before Ronaldo of brazil broke the record at germany 2006,playing in group 4 of the mexico 1970 world cup, MUELLER started his goal scoring feat with the winning goal against african champions, Morocco after Uwe seeler equalized a first half goal by atlas lion Mohammed jarir.

3 goals against bulgaria,his first hattrick at the mundial and another hattrick within 20 minutes against peru made him the second player to score two hattricks in two consecutive matches at the global fiesta. The first being sandor kocsis of hungary on 17 june 1954 against korea and 3 days later against germany on 20 june 1954,Hungary won both matches by 9-0 and 8-3 respectively,
An extra time winner against England and 2 goals in a 4-3 loss to ITALY gave him the golden shoe at mexico 70 world cup.

At Germany 74 world cup, He scored a goal against australia in a 3- 0 bashing, a goal against yugoslavia in a 2-0 win, another goal against poland,and a goal against holland in the final not only ensured that mueller became a world champion but also made him the highest goal scorer of all time for 32 years before RONALDO, broke that record incidentally at GERMANY 2006 world cup.

GERD MUELLER belong to the exclusive class of players that scored more goals than the number of international games they played. 68 goals in 62 games for Germany made him the highest or rather the leading goal scorer for the german machine till date. Also one of few european players to win gold medal at the world cup and the european championship, winning the highest goal scorer in both tournament,scored a total of eleven goals at the european championship of 1970-1972 scoring against all the teams he played against,most remarkably he scored against turkey,albania and poland in all the away matches to beat the teams in their backyard even when the german team could not beat them in germany during the qualifying stages, 6 goals in six matches in the qualifier,and 5 goals in 3 matches in the final made him the highest goal scorer and an exceptional player to have played the round leather game.

Little wonder goals was made his middle name,Duff your hat for the goal king of our generation. GERD GOALS MUELLER.

THE PHENOMENON

His scoring rate is simply amazing,dwarfing the achievements of those before him at the global fiesta, none till today has score more goals than RONALDO, He was at 1994 world cup as an understudy of the great ROMARIO DE SOUZA FARIAS,he won the cup without playing a match, four years later, he was ripe enough to lead the brazilian attack,He scored 4 goals at france 98 world cup, 12 goals at 2002 world cup, and 3 goals at 2006 world cup in germany,bringing his goal aggregate to 15, to top the all time scorers chart, winning two gold medals and one silver along the way.In the final at 2002,he made oliver kahn look stupid,scoring twice against arguably the world best keeper.
His 8 goals was the best in recent times after 1970 feet by german bomber GERD MULLER,who scored 10 goals.