8 players who have won the Ballon d’Or, FIFA World Cup and UEFA Champions League

#3 Gerd Muller

Muller is one of the greatest goalscorers of all time

Gerd Muller was a goal scoring machine during his playing days having scored 564 goals in 605 games for Bayern Munich. In total, he scored 721 professional goals in 769 games!

There were several highlights during his playing career including scoring 10 goals in the 1970 FIFA World Cup although Germany failed to win the coveted trophy. However, Muller won the Ballon d’Or that year for his exploits.

Four years later, he scored four more goals at the World Cup as Germany went on to beat the Netherlands in the final and win the tournament.

The year 1974 was a good one for the German players playing for Bayern Munich as the club had gone on to win its first European Cup. However, their good times were only beginning.

Bayern would go on to make it a hat-trick of European Cups and Muller was an important player for the Bavarians throughout.

There was another German from that squad who won the Ballon d’Or, FIFA World Cup and European Cup and that is...