You don’t have to worry about a Thomas Müller – not even at its first in Canada.
“For me it was always about being myself. I will be here too,” said the 35-year-old ex-international when he was officially presented in the Canadian metropolis as the new football star of the Vancouver Whitecaps.
The club legend of FC Bayern Munich is also an entertainment professional in English, jokes the world champion from 2014 at his press conference in front of numerous sponsors and noble fans as a matter of course as the German audience has been used to for years. “I was used to playing football. Now I play soccer,” he joked right from the start.
Müller can also joke and wisdom in English
And yet in many of Müller’s sentences, there is also the usual portion of life wisdom and analysis, for which he is also known. He knew how to vacuum and clean an apartment, he answers when asked about the greatest challenges, now that he lives for the first time without the familiar environment and abroad.
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— Vancouver Whitecaps FC (@WhitecapsFC) August 14, 2025
“I have always been very curious in my life and have always loved not only to work with people, but also to spend time, and that’s why I don’t feel anything strange, but I will feel very quickly here, I think,” he said.
He also had access to real liver cheese, he said, with a view to the catering company led by a German, which caused a buffet with pretzels and other Bavarian delicacies to greet and joy. “You have to say that Bavarian cuisine has not necessarily been created for competitive sports, at least not for the modern one,” joked Müller. “And yet you can enjoy it from time to time, and that’s why I’m glad that I also have a point of contact here and do not have to have something sent from Germany.”
Müller’s adventure has started
At the airport, Müller was welcomed by a delegation of the MusqueaM stem with a traditional drum march-at the press conference he received an eagle spring and a handmade headband of the squamish stem, all of this in front of around 200 people.
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“There is more going on here than every election evening. No Canadian politician is almost as big as he is,” said a Canadian cameraman.
In Canada, Müller starts the adventure he was looking for – without losing sight of what brings him most of the joy. An adventure is “only exciting if you can play for titles,” said FC Bayern’s record player, who separates from his number 25 and will appear in Vancouver in the future as with the national team with number 13 on the back: “There is a chance not only this, but also next year.”
Whitecaps manager: “He’s really concerned with football”
The whitecaps are second in the Western Conference of the Major League Soccer and full on course Playoffs. In the separately played Canadian Championship, the team is in the semi -finals and “is on the way to becoming a series of Canadian champions for the fourth time,” as Axel Schuster proudly emphasized.
The German manager with a past at FC Schalke 04 and FSV Mainz 05 has been responsible as a sports director for almost six years and finds that the city, team and fans have “deserved” the greatest transfer of their history and the associated attention.
But Schuster is also important: “We have not committed Thomas because of the attention. But because he will help the team.” Already in the first video call between Schuster, Müller and coach Jesper Sörensen, it was long and intensive about Müller’s role in the team. “I quickly noticed that he is not concerned with money, he is concerned with football,” said Schuster of the German Press Agency. “It doesn’t bother him that we are a small club. It doesn’t bother him that we play on artificial turf. He’s really about football and our idea.”
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Müller likes Sörensen – on the first day of getting to know each other, dealing is so familiar that the German gives the Danes a powerful shoulder massage on the stage. Müller feels comfortable in his new surroundings.
“I have always managed to adjust to my surroundings relatively quickly for my whole career. My teams, even if I have always stayed with Bavaria, my teammates have changed,” he said. “The playing style of football has changed, and I have always found my niches to be important for teams, and that’s what it is about.” (dpa/pmk)
date: 2025-08-15 18:36:00