Dieter Müller
German footballer
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Dieter Müller (né Kaster; 1 April 1954) is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward. He achieved his greatest success playing for 1. FC Köln in the Bundesliga in the late 1970s, becoming the topscorer of the Bundesliga for two consecutive seasons and winning the domestic double in the 1978 season. Müller scored 177 goals in 303 games in the German league,[1] including six goals in one game in August 1977, a record that still stands. With his 231 goals in 326 games in all tournaments for 1. FC Köln, he remains the club's all time topscorer. He also represented West Germany at two major tournaments, becoming the UEFA Euro 1976 tournament top scorer and being the only player to score a hattrick in the knockout stage after coming on from the bench. He also scored two goals at the 1978 FIFA World Cup.[2]
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birth name | Dieter Kaster | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 1 April 1954 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Offenbach, West Germany | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position | Striker | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 1964–1969 | SG Götzenhain | |||||||||||||
| 1969–1972 | Kickers Offenbach | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1972–1973 | Kickers Offenbach | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1973–1981 | 1. FC Köln | 248 | (159) | |||||||||||
| 1981–1982 | VfB Stuttgart | 30 | (14) | |||||||||||
| 1982–1985 | Bordeaux | 93 | (43) | |||||||||||
| 1985 | Grasshoppers | 7 | (3) | |||||||||||
| 1985–1986 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 23 | (4) | |||||||||||
| 1986–1989 | Kickers Offenbach | 51 | (26) | |||||||||||
| Total | 454 | (249) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1973–1974 | West Germany Amateur | 6 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 1975–1981 | West Germany B | 6 | (6) | |||||||||||
| 1976–1978 | West Germany | 12 | (9) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 2000 | Kickers Offenbach (joint with Oliver Roth) | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Career
Müller played and scored in the UEFA Euro 1976 final, which West Germany lost on penalties to Czechoslovakia. He was again in the national team in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, though the campaign ended in disappointment when West Germany, the defending champions, did not qualify for the tournament's final. In his spell with 1. FC Köln he set a record for the most goals scored by a player in a single Bundesliga match. On 17 August 1977, he tallied six goals (scoring in the 12th, 23rd, 32nd, 52nd, 73rd and in the 85th minute) in Köln's 7–2 victory over Werder Bremen in front of a crowd of 19,000 at Köln's Müngersdorfer Stadion.[3] However, since television cameramen were on strike on that day, there are no known film of Müller's goals. He was crowned Bundesliga topscorer that season (24 goals in 33 games), as he had the season before (34 goals in 34 appearances).
After he left Köln, he played for several seasons in France and Switzerland, before returning to West Germany.
Müller is the son of Heinz Kaster, who played as a defender for FC St. Pauli and Kickers Offenbach in the early 1950s. The striker had already been a schoolboy international, when his stepfather's adoption turned his surname into Müller.
Personal life
Müller's son Alexander, aged 16, died of a brain tumor in 1997.
Müller suffered a severe heart attack on 5 October 2012 and fell into a five-day coma.
Career statistics
Club
| Club | Season | League | League | Cup | Europe | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Kickers Offenbach | 1972–73 | Bundesliga | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| 1. FC Köln | 1973–74 | Bundesliga | 31 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 41 | 22 |
| 1974–75 | 34 | 24 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 47 | 36 | ||
| 1975–76 | 19 | 14 | 4 | 3 | - | - | 23 | 17 | ||
| 1976–77 | 34 | 34 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 48 | 53 | ||
| 1977–78 | 33 | 24 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 42 | 33 | ||
| 1978–79 | 29 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 37 | 15 | ||
| 1979–80 | 34 | 21 | 8 | 7 | - | - | 42 | 28 | ||
| 1980–81 | 34 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 46 | 27 | ||
| Total | 248 | 159 | 39 | 41 | 39 | 31 | 326 | 231 | ||
| VfB Stuttgart | 1981–82 | Bundesliga | 30 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 20 |
| Bordeaux | 1982–83 | Division 1 | 29 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 21 |
| 1983–84 | 28 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 19 | ||
| 1984–85 | 36 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 46 | 19 | ||
| Total | 93 | 43 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 116 | 59 | ||
| Grasshoppers | 1985–86 | Super League | 7 | 3 | - | - | — | 7 | 3 | |
| 1. FC Saarbrücken | 1985–86 | Bundesliga | 23 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 4 | ||
| Kickers Offenbach | 1986–87 | 6 | 3 | - | - | 6 | 3 | |||
| 1987–88 | 2. Bundesliga | 24 | 16 | - | - | 24 | 16 | |||
| 1988–89 | 27 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 12 | ||||
| 1989–90 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 60 | 31 | 1 | 2 | — | 63 | 33 | |||
| Career total | 463 | 254 | 54 | 53 | 49 | 37 | 566 | 348 | ||
Honours
1. FC Köln
Bordeaux
Individual
- Sport Ideal European XI: 1976[4]
- Bundesliga top scorer: 1976–77, 1977–78
- DFB-Pokal top scorer: 1976–77, 1977–78
- UEFA European Championship top scorer: 1976
- UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 1976[5]