40 pawns for Lewandowski who equals the legendary record of Gerd Müller

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Lewandowski, 40 goals in 28 Bundesliga games, nothing less. – Thomas KIENZLE / POOL / AFP

Robert Lewandowski achieved what many believed to be forever impossible on Saturday: he tied the fabulous record of 40 goals in one season Bundesliga, established in 1971-72 by the legendary Gerd “Bomber” Müller. After his goal, scored on a penalty in the 26th minute of the Freiburg-Munich match, the Polish striker unveiled a t-shirt under his jersey with the inscription “4ever Gerd”, while his teammates gave him a guard of honor.

A heartache for Müller, seriously ill

His boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who has said for years that he is “the best center-forward in the world”, however expressed what many Germans feel, a heartache for Gerd Müller, who ends his life at 75 in an establishment welcoming Alzheihmer patients.

“I am a little divided”, admitted the former double Ballon d’Or, “but I know what this record represents for Robert”. “As a wife, I would prefer Gerd to keep her record,” Bomber’s wife Uschi Müller had very modestly said this week: “Gerd was just unique. And although Lewandowski is now breaking the record, Gerd will always be Gerd. We will never forget it ”.

But, she added, “Gerd does not know jealousy (…) He would be the first to congratulate him, he would say: ‘well done man, you are great” “. There will still be a Bundesliga day left for Lewandowski to improve this legendary brand, with the reception next Saturday from Augsburg.





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