Thomas Müller shows his private page in a new Amazon documentary

Shortly before the turn of the millennium, when teen films were really called, there was a strip that was difficult to get past: In “one like none”, the unadjusted Laney will ultimately become a bright ball queen who crowns and high- School Schönling snaps. The fact that you have to adapt to please do not fit the title. But that is catchy for this. So catchy that football coach Pep Guardiola OB wanted him or unintentionally used him to nobility Thomas Müller: “One like none,” he says in a new Amazon documentary about his former protégé. And so this documentation is called.

Now it is unlikely that the 35-year-old Müller will still mutate into the king of a prom, but the line between him and the supposedly average film heroine Laney does not run completely. This proves, for example, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, member of the supervisory board at FC Bayern Munich: “Thomas is not very quick. He is average average on average. His dribbling is average. But he is Thomas Müller.”

That means: a player in whose vita includes twelve German championships, two title gains in the Champions League and a World Championship Cup. So how did this apparently very average footballer manage to become one of the most successful players at all?

With this question, the Amazon documentary remains vague. She tells the boy’s career from the Upper Bavarian Päl strictly chronologically. His skills are simply there in the film’s 90 minutes. Unlike David Beckham, who was drilled by his father, Müller seems to have got his talent in his cradle. Talent, which is particularly evident in its enormous and difficult to train and explain game intelligence, less in the technical skills. Maybe the documentary of Müller’s class cannot describe properly?

Even professionals find it difficult. Ex-national coach Jogi Löw says: “If Messi is the wizard, then he is the cylinder. You don’t know what comes out as a surprise.”

Some coaches of FC Bayern Munich – the only club in which he was ever employed as a professional and it is still – did not know how to get something out of this cylinder, others knew masterfully. As a result, Müller’s story is one with up and down. The documentary follows it up and down and gets in in the summer of 2023, one year before the European home championship, to which he absolutely wants to make it as a player. Müller was mainly on the bench at the time in the club because the then Bavarian coach Thomas Tuchel did not focus on him.

The film shows how a professional has to deal with such a situation and how she gnaws at him and manages to reveal a page of Thomas Müller that was not yet known. Including an uncertainty that you would not have suspected, where he is in a good mood and mischievous so often. After a bitter defeat, he says in a scene in the selfie camera: “If you lose two games in a row shortly before a home European Championship, then this feeling of being shit is real.”

Müller is one of the most ordinary and the most surviving professionals in the industry, in this regard the film does not give any new findings. In his free time he helps his parents to apple harvest, is in the riding stable or golf. Only the topics that are discussed, which are football with a clerk in the billion dollar business. And so the documentary is best when it shows exactly this page of the footballer, the private Thomas Müller. Who tells a friend of his multi -million dollar contract extension on the ice stick, as if he were talking about being at the grill at the fire brigade festival next year.

All of this seems very grounded, this also ensures Müller’s parents Klaudia and Gerhard, who lets the film team have extensively speaking. “I see it as my educational mandate to remind him that he is not the greatest,” says the mother and laughs. The parents also talk about the burden of having a world -famous son. And what it is like to be married to one of the most famous footballers in the country, says wife Lisa Müller. She openly admits how much she is creating the situation. Nevertheless, the two manage to live a scandal -free life; Rush to divorce that came up a few months ago and still woven around are among the more spectacular reports about Müller’s private life.

So the documentary does a lot to draw a portrait of the footballer, although or because it is so unspectacular. Other sports documentation manages to work closer to the matter and deeper looks behind the scenes; With more beautiful pictures and more effects. But “one like none” does not seem to have this claim.

She brings the viewers closer to a person who has been there for a long time (his professional debut gave Müller 2008), who stands for club loyalty like no other who has won everything there is to win and who represents a football era from which it is There are hardly any active players. So some nostalgia comes up when watching, especially when Müller says a typical miller sentence like this: “At my age, it’s not about lurking opportunities. But about: When is the supervised toilet free again?”

The documentary “one like none” will run on Amazon Prime from March 4th.