Club World Cup
Müller’s Bayern final: “If it’s over, it’s over”
The group phase is over. From now on, every KO game can be the last one for Thomas Müller in the Bayern jersey with the 25th after that, many will be missing.
Thomas Müller suddenly dims his otherwise strong voice. Fighted the Bayern veteran after 90 minutes of hard work in Charlotte’s glowing heat with a stubble beard in the catacombs of the “Bank of America Stadium”. And then this question hits him quite suddenly. Did he have it in mind that after the end of the group phase, every game at the Club World Cup can really be the very last in the FC Bayern jersey?
“Sure,” replies the 35-year-old: “But I have known that for a long time.” And then he tries to verbally shake off the topic like an opponent on the soccer field. “It is still fun. Giving everything is fun. And when it’s over, it’s over!” If it were so simple.
“You sit on the packed suitcase”
Already on Sunday (10 p.m./Sat.1 and DAZN) it can be so far. When the German champion in Miami meets Flamengo Rio de Janeiro in the round of 16, Brazil’s strongest team is currently the strongest team. Müller for the last?
After 25 Bavaria years, the Ur-Bayer also goes on very personal co-rounds at the tournament in the USA. But he doesn’t want to do that with negative premonitions. Win or fly home? “Of course, these win-or-go home games are always tingling. You sit a bit on the packed suitcase. But I am convinced that we are still here for some time.”
July 13th, the World Cup final in the Metlife Stadium near New York, remains the destination of the legend. A Bayern party on a really big stage. “The tournament is now picking up speed,” says the 35-year-old. And Flamengo should not become the final stop. His 250th competitive goal for Bavaria, which he celebrated ecstatically at 10: 0 against Auckland City, should not be the last.
No space for sentimentality yet
The teammates, especially long -time like Leon Goretzka, also want to “not think” about FC Bayern without the unique Müller. “I think we will be sentimental early enough,” said the international in Charlotte. The friends spend the free time in Orlando on the golf course.
Müller will be missing. And many. The club. The team. And also the public. And the media. The quick-witted miller is happy to tease the reporters on his last Bayern ride. “I’m a bit disappointed with your question,” he says. Müller masters the football (show) business.
What happens after the club World Cup? After the last assignment in a jersey with the 25? Many wear it at the Bayern venues. Müller gets the loudest applause. Does the 35-year-old may stay in the States after the World Cup?
Los Angeles and TV expert at the 2026 World Cup?
Müller is said to flirt with Los Angeles FC in the Major League Soccer. It is the Bayern partner club. And their bosses would welcome that. Müller as a Munich advertising figure on the US market.
However, FC Cincinnati holds the Discovery Rights to Müller. So the Ohio club has an exclusive right to negotiate that an MLS team can acquire for a player if he wants to switch to the league. Cincinnati would have to be purchased to Müller. This was also the case with Marco Reus when the ex-Dortmund 2014 La Galaxy joined.
Anyone who again sees Müller in Cincinnati, Miami or Charlotte over the square even over the highest heat feels the joy that the 2014 world champion is still kicking. A soccer year in LA could also make it easier for him to make FC Bayern ‘forced nibrating.
It could also be a good preparation for the right World Cup in the national teams in the United States, Canada and Mexico in one year. In the scene it is rumored that the eloquent Müller will then work as an expert for a German TV station. That would be a win for the audience.
But that’s the future music. The present is called Flamengo. Müller is likely to be planned as a joker by Vincent Kompany in Miami. Just like in the 2-1 against the Boca Juniors when he watched sitting on a cool box on the edge of the field. Müller doesn’t get a farewell tour bonus. “We have a lot of competition at the front. Everyone has their role. I don’t look much at the individual. It is important that the collective is right,” said the coach.
Müller looks forward to Miami. “The stadium is likely to be very well filled. Many Brazilian fans will create mood. And we want such football festivals now,” he says. It just shouldn’t be his last.
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Source: Stern
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