It is difficult to imagine the German national football team in recent years without midfielder Thomas Müller. The namesake of the great German striker Thomas, like Gerd, was able to achieve outstanding results not only in his club career, but also as part of the country's first team, inscribing his name in golden letters in the history of German football.
Germany has presented the football world with many outstanding players, including the winners of the European and World Championships. This country is considered one of the best in organizing children's football schools. All the conditions for practicing this sport in Germany are conducive to the professional growth of young players and provide an opportunity to prove themselves not only in the domestic Bundesliga championship, but also outside the country. One of the German football nuggets was a boy from the small town of Weilheim - Thomas Müller.
The famous German footballer was born in southern Germany on September 13, 1989. From early childhood he began to get involved in sports. The rich German football history instilled in Thomas a love for the game, he started kicking the ball with his peers even before he was five years old.
Thomas Müller's junior career
The future leader of Bayern and the German national team began to receive his first football education in 1993, when the boy was brought to the sports football school of the Pel club. From an early age, the child showed outstanding talent, play thinking. In the Pel team, Müller played until 2000, after which the scouts of the most titled club in Germany, Bayern Munich, drew attention to him.
In 2000, Müller joined the famous Hollywood Football Academy. And after a few years he began to be involved in the youth team of Bayern Munich. At the Munich club, Thomas Müller became the German youth champion.
Acting as an attacking midfielder, Müller amazed football specialists with his playing intelligence. The creativity of a player capable of playing in an exclusively attacking role, opened the way for Thomas to the main team of Bayern in 2007.
Thomas Müller's career at Bayern Munich
In 2008, Thomas Müller made his debut match for the multiple champions of Germany. The player was not noted for anything remarkable on the football field.
Already in the 2009-2010 season, Mueller's work on the football field began to unfold to the fullest. The attacking midfielder has earned the coach's trust, despite his young age. Thomas played 34 domestic league games, scoring 13 goals and assisting six more times. From that time on, it became clear that the player had a great future, including in the German national team.
Thomas Müller has spent his entire career at Bayern Munich. In the top division of the German Championship, he has already played eleven seasons, played 304 matches, and scored 108 goals. Müller's German Cup statistics are also impressive: 47 games with 28 goals scored.
Müller's football career includes many appearances for the club on the international stage. In European Cups, he played over a hundred games, scored 42 goals against opponents.
All in all, during his long career at Bayern Munich, Thomas Müller has played more than four and a half hundred matches, in which he has distinguished himself over one hundred and eighty times. At the same time, the player's career continues. Müller's statistics will surely be supplemented by more goals scored and assists.
Thomas Müller's career in the German national team
Müller began to be attracted to the national team from a young age. He played for the youth teams of his country in four ages (up to 16, 19, 20 and 21 years old). Since 2010, he has become an integral part of the first national team of Germany, with which he played a hundred matches, won numerous trophies, becoming the world champion in 2014.
Achievements of Thomas Müller
Among the achievements of Thomas Müller at the club level are victories with Bayern in the domestic arena (midfielder, seven-time Bundesliga champion). Four times his team won the National Cup and five times the German Super Cup.
The club's international career culminated in a victory in the 2012–2013 UEFA Champions League. In 2013, Müller, along with Munich, won the European Super Cup and became the winner of the Club World Championship.
The real greatness came to Thomas Müller thanks to victories with the national team. First of all, this is a triumph at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Mueller contributed to the bronze medals of the championship (scored five goals and became the top scorer of the tournament). To the medals of the World Championships, Müller also added prizes in the European Championships (attacking midfielder bronze medalist of EURO 2012 and 2016).
In addition to outstanding victories with his home club and the national team, Thomas Müller has significant personal achievements. Perhaps the dream of every football player is to win the World Cup, and if the collection of awards also includes the golden boot of the World Cup, we can say that nothing higher can be achieved in football. Müller is the winner of both the World Cup and the prize for the top scorer of the tournament. In 2010, in South Africa, the German national team lost in the semifinals, but won bronze. Müller's five goals made his name in the history of that tournament. In the same 2010, the midfielder received the prize for the best young player in the World Cup. In 2014, following the results of the World Cup in Brazil, he received the silver boot award (the second best scorer of the tournament). In his club, Müller was recognized as the top scorer in the German Cup.
Thomas Müller has been officially married since 2010. His beloved is model Lisa. There is information that his wife contributed to the football player's hobby for equestrian sports.
