Hermann Gerland football manager, BIRKENSTORY, BIRKENSTOCK

Tiger, I wouldnt be where I am today without you Thomas Müller, 2014 world champion SUBSCRIBE: He was an assistant coach to Jupp Heynckes, Louis van Gaal, Pep Guardiola, Carlo Ancelotti, and Hansi Flick, and became a legendary trainer at FC Bayern Munich the dyedinthewool Bochumer Hermann Gerland. Tiger, as everyone still calls him to this day, is a twotimes Club World Cup winner and a twotimes treble winner, and won Germanys Bundesliga nine times. Serving as the eyes, so to speak, of the top Munich club for decades, Gerland helped train a number players who went on to become national players, like Dietmar Hamann, Holger Badstuber, Philipp Lahm, Bastian Schweinsteiger, David Alaba, and Thomas Müller. And he remained modest throughout: I had a small part to play in training some of them. Louis van Gaal, Bayerns head coach from 2009 to 2011, sees things slightly differently: Hermann, you said three sen