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Munich (AP) - Jürgen Klinsmann hopes that Robert Lewandowski cracks Gerd Müller's Bundesliga goal record.

The former national coach said this in an interview with “bundesliga.com” and described the Polish striker of the German soccer champions FC Bayern Munich as “a real phenomenon”.

World footballer Lewandowski faces the Bundesliga game this Saturday (3.30 p.m. / Sky) at SC Freiburg with 39 goals.

The 32-year-old Lewandowski is still missing one goal for the 40-goal record set by striker legend Gerd Müller in the 1971/72 season.

Former Bayern coach Klinsmann (56) said: "The way Lewandowski has played throughout his career has been excellent, but what he has done in recent years is just incredible."

Klinsmann, himself a striker in his playing career, said of the Pole: "He's a great role model."

Lewandowski is a character who is always hungry.

“He never gets enough.

He always wants the next goal and the next goal, »Klinsmann praised the attacker.

«He deserves all the honor in the world.

I hope he can break Gerd Müller's record. "

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For Klinsmann, however, Müller is “the greatest striker we've had in Germany”.

He was ten years old when Müller scored the winning goal in the 1974 World Cup final.

“The first thing we did as small children after the game in which Germany became world champions was to run into the streets and play football - we all mimicked them,” Klinsmann revealed.

Even then he was on the road as a striker.

That is why “I imitated Gerd Müller as well as I could as a small child”.

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