Dieter Müller

Dieter Müller (né Kaster; 1 April 1954) is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward. He achieved his greatest success playing for 1. FC Köln in the Bundesliga in the late 1970s. Müller scored 177 goals in 303 games in the German league,[1] including six goals in one game in August 1977, a record that still stands. He also played 12 times for West Germany from 1976 to 1978, scoring nine goals.[2]

Dieter Müller
Personal information
Birth name Dieter Kaster
Date of birth (1954-04-01) 1 April 1954
Place of birth Offenbach, West Germany
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1964–1969 SG Götzenhain
1969–1972 Kickers Offenbach
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1972–1973 Kickers Offenbach 2 (0)
1973–1981 1. FC Köln 248 (159)
1981–1982 VfB Stuttgart 30 (14)
1982–1985 Bordeaux 93 (43)
1985 Grasshoppers 7 (3)
1985–1986 1. FC Saarbrücken 23 (4)
1986–1989 Kickers Offenbach 51 (26)
Total 454 (249)
International career
1973–1974 West Germany Amateur 6 (2)
1975–1981 West Germany B 6 (6)
1976–1978 West Germany 12 (9)
Managerial career
2000 Kickers Offenbach (joint with Oliver Roth)
Medal record
Representing  West Germany
UEFA European Championship
Runner-up1976 Yugoslavia
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Müller played and scored in the UEFA Euro 1976 final, which West Germany lost on penalties to Czechoslovakia. He was again in the national team in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, though the campaign ended in disappointment when West Germany, the defending champions, did not qualify for the tournament's final. In his spell with 1. FC Köln he set a record for the most goals scored by a player in a single Bundesliga match. On 17 August 1977, he tallied six goals (scoring in the 12th, 23rd, 32nd, 52nd, 73rd and in the 85th minute) in Köln's 7–2 victory over Werder Bremen in front of a crowd of 19,000 at Köln's Müngersdorfer Stadion.[3] However, since television cameramen were on strike on that day, there are no known film of Müller's goals. He was crowned Bundesliga topscorer that season (24 goals in 33 games), as he had the season before (34 goals in 34 appearances).

After he left Köln, he played for several seasons in France and Switzerland, before returning to West Germany.

Müller is the son of Heinz Kaster, who played as a defender for FC St. Pauli and Kickers Offenbach in the early 1950s. The striker had already been a schoolboy international, when his stepfather's adoption turned his surname into Müller.

Personal life

Müller's son Alexander, aged 16, died of a brain tumor in 1997.

Müller suffered a severe heart attack on 5 October 2012 and fell into a five-day coma.

Career statistics

Club
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League
DivisionAppsGoals
Kickers Offenbach 1972–73 Bundesliga 20
1. FC Köln 1973–74 Bundesliga 3117
1974–75 3424
1975–76 1914
1976–77 3434
1977–78 3324
1978–79 298
1979–80 3421
1980–81 3417
Total 248159
VfB Stuttgart 1981–82 Bundesliga 3014
Bordeaux 1982–83 Division 1 2917
1983–84 2814
1984–85 3612
Total 9343
Grasshoppers 1985–86 Super League 73
1. FC Saarbrücken 1985–86 Bundesliga 234
Kickers Offenbach 1986–87 00
1987–88 2. Bundesliga 2416
1988–89 2710
1989–90 00
Total 5126
Career total 454249

Honours

1. FC Köln

Bordeaux

Individual

References
  1. Arnhold, Matthias (1 October 2015). "Dieter Müller - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  2. Arnhold, Matthias (1 October 2015). "Dieter Müller - Goals in International Matches". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  3. "Die meisten Tore eines Spielers pro Spiel" [The most goals by a player in a DFB-Pokal] (in German). weltfussball.de. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
  4. "1976 team of the tournament". UEFA.com. 21 March 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
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