Müller’s first training in Vancouver
For this surprise there was applause from the team
Updated on August 16, 2025 – 2:06 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
First training in the rain, the first joke with the team: the ex-Bayern star arrived in Canada. Müller already presented a teammate A Bavarian gift.
Thomas Müller trained with his new team for the first time at the Vancouver Whitecaps on Tuesday – and created a good atmosphere directly. The long-standing Bayern professional shared recordings on Instagram, who show him in the rain with a laugh, surrounded by new teammates that form a trellis.
The scene acts like a symbolic welcome rite: Müller runs through a “tunnel” of players, is greeted, clapping and joking – and cannot be ragged. “Is that all you have?” He calls them in English. The mood: solved, friendly, almost familiar.
“It is a normal football team, everyone has fun.
In the first team meeting in front of the unit, he was “briefly introduced” and it was nice to get to know the boys, Müller continued. “Everything normal, I quickly settled in,” he said.
And that in a Bavarian way: his team-mate Priso-Bongue, who had given him the number 13, made Müller presented as a gift as a gift, as a video on his YouTube channel showed.
On the night of Monday (3 a.m.), the first game of the Whitecaps in the North American Major League Soccer is due to the Houston Dynamo FC after Müller’s arrival.
Coach Jesper Sörensen promises the former international directly in the prospect. “He will be in the squad and he will be on the pitch,” said the Dane. “How long, we will find out. We won’t do stupid things.”
Does Müller feel ready himself? “Yes, I would say,” he replied, but pushed after: “Of course I have to say we will see how we do it. I have not played a game since the end of June.”
The former Bayern star received a contract in Vancouver until the end of the coming season. His expired contract with the German record champions had not been extended. After a long time to think and the club World Cup as a farewell tournament at the Munich team, he decided against a career end and for North America.