In the 2020/21 season, Robert Lewandowski surpassed Bayern icon Gerd Müller’s unbreakable record from the 1971/72 season (40) with 41 goals. A record for eternity? Hardly, says Müller’s widow Uschi. She believes that the Lewandowski mark will soon fall – thanks to Munich’s new superstar.
Harry Kane has already scored 21 times in his first 15 Bundesliga games for Munich and is well on his way to breaking Lewandowski’s record after just three years. “It’s clear that Harry Kane has now overtaken Robert Lewandowski to grab the record. In any case, he’ll do it! Something terrible would have to happen if that didn’t work,” says Uschi Müller, widow of FCB- Icon Gerd Müller, in an interview with “Sport Bild”.
The 1974 world champion, who died of dementia in 2021, never understood that his record of 40 goals lasted so long, Müller revealed. “The center forwards are no longer covered so hard these days and have more space to cover the area,” her husband always said.
She would be “lying if I said that I wouldn’t have been happy for Gerd to keep the record. Of course, as a wife, I would have been happy if Gerd kept it for all eternity,” said Müller. But her husband “would have granted it to Lewandowski, just as he would now grant it to Harry Kane. He would have said: ‘Great. We need something like that at Bayern!'”
Kane should continue to score his goals, said Uschi Müller, in keeping with the spirit of the German record champions. “Whether Lewandowski, Harry Kane or Gerd – the good thing about these record breakers is that they play for FC Bayern.”
FC Bayern: Müller’s overall haul remains unmatched
Kane moved from Tottenham Hotspur to Munich in the summer for a record fee of around 100 million euros and immediately scored at will in the Bayern jersey. Lewandowski, his “predecessor” as Munich’s number 9, moved to FC Barcelona in the summer of 2022.
Gerd Müller played for Bayern from 1964 to 1979, scoring 365 goals in 427 Bundesliga games – a record to this day. With Bayern, the “bomber of the nation” became champions four times, cup winners four times and won the European Cup three times. He won the European Championship title with the national team in 1972 and the World Cup trophy in his own country two years later.