The melancholy that captures strong, the first sentences collected and published by image, it grows with the addition of the words it uses Uschi Muller, wife of Gerd, to put together his daily life. An existence at the most, his, marked by the encounter with the disease, that one dementia that keeps him clinging to life but denied him a lot, maybe too much at 75 years old.
The health conditions of Gerd Muller
“He eats practically nothing, he can only swallow,” he says Uschi, who has been the wife of Muller. This is the situation that describes the Image: Gerd, he has been living in a nursing home for five years. “He lies in bed almost 24 hours a day. He rarely has waking moments, it is so beautiful when he opens his eyes, even if only for a few minutes. Through the blink of an eye he can answer yes or no to the questions we ask him. Sometimes we watch television together, even if he doesn’t understand ”.
With the advent of Covid, even these fragile habits have been unhinged and corrected to protect Muller and the guests of the residence: “Just a year ago everything was different. I was also able to take it to the ice cream parlor. But then came the coronavirus. For three months I could not visit him and I could not explain the reason “. In recent months, however, the situation has worsened: “Gerd is sleeping towards his end. He keeps his eyes closed, only eats pureed food. It gives me the feeling of being calm and serene, I don’t think I’m suffering. He is sleeping towards the afterlife. I just hope he can’t reflect on his fate and current conditions ”.
Muller, the champion of records
A slow and painful farewell for the world champion in 1974. The man who, in the national team, scored 68 goals in 62 games. Only Klose, with 71 hits (but in 137 games) he scored more goals than him for Germany. With Bayern he has instead won four championships and three European Cups. For 32 years he was the best scorer in the history of the World Cup with 14 goals, a record that took the Brazilian away from him Ronaldo before and the same Klose then. In Bundesliga has scored 365 goals in 427 games (all for Bayern), making him the best scorer ever in the German league (in second place Fischer with 268 centers, the third Lewandowski with 246).
In Germany, no one has won the top scorer with his frequency (7 times) and he is also the best scorer in a single league (he scored 40 goals in 1972). The “Bomber of the Nation”, the best ever among the Germans now faces dementia and loneliness, due to the pandemic, waiting for a sign.
VIRGILIO SPORT | 03-11-2020 09:59
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It is difficult to read this tragedy without pause, some times for more than a few seconds ! My name is George Paphalmy I’am Hungarian I was born in 1958 big fan of European soccer ! What an icon he was , god will bless his soul!