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Uschi Müller cannot avoid the topic at all. She is literally overwhelmed by the stories, whether Robert Lewandowski (32) will break her husband Gerd Müller's (75) scoring record or not: “For weeks I haven't heard anything else every day.” Unfortunately, she can't read the flood of stories to him there the greatest goalscorer of all time dawns. “He is calm and peaceful. He sleeps most of the day. Quiet, however. He doesn't look stressed. He's doing fine right now, ”she says about the greatest goalscorer of all time, who has been cared for in a home for seriously demented patients since November 2015.

His 365 goals in 427 Bundesliga games and his 68 goals in 62 international matches are goals for the ages.

But after his three-pack against Mönchengladbach before the last two Bayern games in Freiburg and against Augsburg, Lewandowski is only one tiny goal away from Müller's super record, the 40 Bundesliga goals from the 1971/72 season.

Uschi Müller (r.) And her husband Gerd in 2013

Source: pa / HJS-Sportfoto / Hans-Jürgen Schmidt

"Gerd would treat him to it," says Uschi Müller without hesitation.

“He was always surprised that someone hadn't caught up with him long ago.

From the moment the space coverage was introduced, he waited for someone to crack the 40 gates.

'There is so much space there, the chances are there - and they don't score goals,' he always said.

Gerd has no feelings of envy.

He wouldn't whine if he lost the record.

On the contrary: he would be the first to congratulate, to say, 'Well done, boy.

You are super.'

One hundred percent safe. "

"You can't compare the two with each other"

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Uschi Müller also occasionally follows Lewandowski on television - without feelings of envy. Gerd always said to her: "When I hear you talking about football ..." But she was always there, in Bavaria and in Florida with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, she knows very well how to analyze the differences from then and now.

“Gerd always had two men on his feet. That is impossible with Lewandowski with his athletic form. You can't even compare the two with each other. Robert is an athlete, Gerd was an artist. What he was able to do with the ball downstairs was unbelievable. He still had four feet in between when he received the ball. If I just think of scenes where he fell and got up again in a flash. How fast he could jump off the ground into the air. He was like a rubber ball. Lewandowski has the harder shot. You had to wait 50 years for someone like him. How many successors have we seen? Nobody was ever there. Now we finally have one. I am firmly convinced that Lewandowski can do it. He played a great season and is a hard worker. "

Robert Lewandowski has dominated the Bundesliga with his goals for years

Source: dpa / Matthias Schrader

When asked what she would personally prefer that Gerd keep the record or that Lewandowski be crowned, she laughs and answers spontaneously: “As a wife, I would prefer Gerd to keep him.

Should Lewandowski shoot 39 or, if you like, 40 and set the record.

The Gerd was just unique.

And even if Lewandowski now sets a new record, Gerd will always be Gerd.

Always in memories.

Always the nation's bomber. "

Uschi Müller drives 25 kilometers south every day to visit her Gerd in the nursing home, to talk to him, to stroke him. “He just deserved it. There will seldom be such a good person. Not vicious, not jealous, not contentious. ”And then she addressed a word to Bayern’s current goalscorer:“ Dear Robert Lewandowski, 40 goals are enough. ”