“I left my talent share Thomas”
The Müller brothers are so similar
Updated on September 25, 2025 – 10:24 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
One is world champion, the other district league captain. And yet Thomas and Simon Müller are more similar than you think at first.
When Thomas Müller came to FC Bayern in the Allianz Arena during his time, one was almost always there: Simon Müller. Not on the pitch, not in the squad – but right in the middle. As a season ticket owner and team leader fan representative, he ensures that the curve lives, the choreos sit and the fans feel heard. What many do not know: The man behind the scenes is the brother of the world champion who scored the gates at the front in Brazil in 2014.
At the TSV in Pähl in the Upper Bavarian Pfaffenwinkel, Thomas and Simon Müller had already kicked as children until the basement walls wobbled. “Most of the time we played one against one, from time to time buddies came over me,” Simon Müller once recalled in the “Münchner Merkur”. “Then we tried two against Thomas – but unfortunately didn’t really work.” He never really “handled” his brother three years older.
And rivalry became respect. Thomas Müller made the leap into the world class, played for Bayern for almost 25 years and is now under contract with the Vancouver Whitecaps. Simon stayed – voluntarily.
Former coach and ex-mayor Werner Grünbauer saw Simon Müller’s talent: “He could play two to three classes higher,” it said at the time. Many years after a trial training at FC Bayern in the e-youth, Simon Müller chose the district class: “I don’t have this gene. I generously left Thomas to Thomas,” he said at the time. “Better a full professional in the family than two half professionals.”
Simon Müller is still kicking for TSV Pähl in the district league. It has been a fixture in central midfield for years – scorer, driver, local hero. And if he is not on the pitch himself, he is in the Allianz Arena.
Employed to the German record champion since 2015, Simon Müller has been coordinating choreographies in the south curve since 2022, taking care of fan care at the women’s team and enables smooth communication during home and away games.