Dieter Müller
Dieter Müller ( born April 1, 1954 in Offenbach am Main as Dieter Kaster ) is a former German football player and twelve times for national team. He was for twelve years president of Kickers Offenbach. Today he runs a football school.
Club career
Dieter Müller grew up in Dreiech Götzenhain. He played a total of 303 league games for the clubs Kickers Offenbach, 1st FC Cologne, VfB Stuttgart and 1 FC Saarbrücken, scoring 177 goals. He is number 7 of the list of scorers.
His professional career began in the former youth national team in the 1972/73 season at Kickers Offenbach under his birth name Dieter Kaster (father Heinz Kaster has performed at FC St. Pauli ). It was only after the change in 1973 to 1 FC Köln, he took the surname of his adoptive father and named Dieter Müller.
With the 1st FC Cologne was Dieter Müller once German champion and twice DFB Cup winner. He was also a two- time top scorer of the DFB Cup, where he set in 1977 Ernst Willimowskis record of 14 goals in a discharge and a year later with 8 gates again top scorer was. Outstanding were his six goals on August 17, 1977 at 7:2 victory in the Bundesliga match against Werder Bremen, a unique record until now. Also due to this performance, he was named by the readers of the Cologne Express to Cologne striker of the century.
Towards the end of his career moved to France to Bordeaux Müller. There he played alongside players such as Tigana and Giresse and won the championship twice (1984 and 1985). He is one of the few footballers who have scored a total of more than 200 top-flight.
In the history of the UEFA Cup Müller has 29 hits together with Jupp Heynckes (Borussia Mönchengladbach ) is the third top scorer behind Henrik Larsson (Celtic FC, Helsingborgs IF) with 40 gates and Walter Machado da Silva (Valencia CF) with 31 goals.
National
From Mueller's operations in the national team, especially those games remain during the European Football Championship 1976 in memory when he was top scorer as a debutant and significantly contributed to the DFB team moved into the finals. Müller was substituted in his first international match against Yugoslavia in the 79th minute when score of 1:2. He scored three goals in the game yet and Germany won 4-2 after extra time.
He completed a total of only - presumably because of disagreements with the then national coach Helmut Schön - twelve internationals. Nevertheless, he took part in the Football World Cup 1978 in Argentina, as Beautiful on the top scorer in the Bundesliga could hardly do without. There, he scored against Mexico and the Netherlands two goals.
Private
Miller's son died in 1997 at the age of 16 years to cancer.
On September 30, 2012 Dieter Muller suffered a heart attack and was subsequently temporarily in a coma.
Statistics
National team career
Clubs
- SG Götzenhain
- To 1973 Kickers Offenbach
- 1973-1981 1st FC Cologne
- 1981-1982 VfB Stuttgart
- 1982-1985 Girondins Bordeaux
- 1985-1986 1 FC Saarbrücken
- 1986-1990 Kickers Offenbach
- DFB-Pokal 42 games for 1.FC Köln - 33 goals
- Division 1 93 games for Girondins de Bordeaux - 44 goals
- Europe Champions Cup; European Cup Winners' Cup; UEFA Cup 39 games for 1.FC Köln - 31 goals 11 Matches for Girondins de Bordeaux - 6 Goals
Achievements
- The second-best scorer in 1975 ( behind Jupp Heynckes ) with 24 goals
- Vice European Champion 1976
- EM- scorer in 1976 with 4 goals
- DFB Cup winners 1977 ( with the 1.FC Köln)
- Scorer in 1977 with 34 goals
- German Champion 1978 ( with the 1.FC Köln)
- DFB Cup winners 1978 ( with the 1.FC Köln, thus winning the doubles )
- Scorer in 1978 with 24 goals
- French Champion 1984 ( Girondins Bordeaux)
- French Champion 1985 ( Girondins Bordeaux)
- Third best scorer in the history of the UEFA Cup with 29 goals