Thomas Muller explains why World Cup glory with Germany was sweetest of his many career trophies

After you have won everything to be won with his boys’ club, you might be forgiven to think Thomas Muller Would find it difficult to choose the biggest price of a shimmering career. You would be wrong. Eleven years after that remarkable night in Belo Horizonte, the joy he and his teammates were able to bring 80 million Germans, is at the Pinnacle.

Muller was one of the excellent artists on the World Cup 2014, the tournament where Germany won the World Cup for the first time as a reunited nation, the stunning hosts Brazil in a 7-1 half-final victory on July 8 before he beat Argentina five days later in the Maracana.

The 35-year-old, who left Bayern Munich At the start of this month, when his contract ended, the board wiped at club level, won 13 Bundesliga titles and two Champions League crowns, and has the record for most performances on the most successful side in German football history. Still, when asked if his performance with The team Were sweeter, he didn’t hesitate.

“It meant more, not because the club is less important, it’s only about people,” He told the CBS Sports. “When you win with the national team, you win it with 80 million people. Everyone who is cheering, for every person, it’s important that you win. You feel the links of history.

“If you see the videos and photos of what it means for them at the moment, perhaps not for their lives, but perhaps also for their lives. If they have this winning moment, everyone will remember the final or the Brazilian game. It is such an important moment for everyone’s life. You feel it.”

There were plenty outside of Germany who felt something very remarkable in the semi -final of 2014, the stunning triumph that both Brazilian players and the nation themselves left in a state of Shellshock. Muller started the routes in the 11th minute and drove past the penalty spot to the corner of the Toni Kroos house. Eighteen minutes later the score read 5-0, the hosts who had believed that they would certainly banish the memories of their loss of 1950 on a home floor that collapsed into an even deeper despair.

However, the strangeness did not stop with one of the most remarkable results in football history. Five days after they had inflicted so much pain on Brazil, Germany thought their host country encouraged them in the final. Everyone except Argentina, they reasoned.

Nadenkend over de “rare” ervaring van het neerhalen van Brazilië, zei Muller: “Ze waren verpletterd en om eerlijk te zijn was het een beetje een raar gevoel. We konden ervan genieten, maar je zag vanaf het begin de druk is gek hoog. Voetbal is zo’n belangrijk onderwerp in dit land, in Brazilië. Vóór de wedstrijd waren de spelers bidden, het nationale volkslied, het hele stadion, het hele stadion, het hele stadion, het hele stadion, het Whole stadium, the whole game was so important.

“It was heartbreaking at a time, but also nice that you see this human reaction. In the beginning I thought that okay, what will happen if we might win it with a tight decision by the referee. I don’t know, we have to go back to our base camp, we have to go back to our base camp, [it could be an emotional journey]The emotions are high with this kind of result … ”

“They even cheered in the final for us because it was against Argentina. That helped.”

Muller Boog on Saturday from life in Bayern Munich, his record 756th and last match with the club a 2-0 defeat against Paris Saint-Germain who ended a quarter of century association with the club he grew up. It would not have been the veteran’s decision to separate at the end of his contract with Bayern who announced at the beginning of April that they would not offer him an extension.

“In the end I didn’t feel injured,” said Muller. “A relationship between a club and a player, even if it is so romantic and special, is always based on business decisions or football decisions. There are always times during a contract where one side thinks:” I am wrong in this place. “I never had the feeling that someone in the club was disrespectful.

“From the boys who decided and the big bosses in the club, I always had the feeling that they were very grateful for what I did in the club. Everything is fine. It’s a fairy -tale story.”

What the future could mean, he added: “I want to find it out in the coming weeks. If there is not the perfect solution for me or the chance to say,” Okay, I think that’s fine “, then I might decide to stop, end my career, or maybe decide to wait.