FC Bayern München and German National Team legend Gerd Müller died this past Sunday - his influence on both of those sides is difficult to overestimate. Der Bomber's otherworldly goalscoring record, his preternatural ability to appear at precisely the right place at the right time, and his down-to-earth personality made him one of German football's all-time icons.
For this episode of Talking Fussball Extra, Nik Wildhagen sits down with someone with a unique perspective on Müller: Susie Schaaf, a lifelong Bayern and Germany fan, who grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she crossed paths with the man himself many times.
The podcast ventures into some difficult, personal territory - Susie opens up not just about what Müller meant to her, but about her experience caring for and eventually mourning her mother, who struggled with Alzheimer's in the same years as Müller did. An emotional episode.