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“I WOULD have played a lot more than three internationals had Gerd Muller not been around then,” Erwin Kostedde has recalled.
Filling the shoes of the country’s greatest goalscorer, in a team that had become the first in history to win the European Championship and World Cup in succession, would have been a burden for anyone.
But 28-year-old Kostedde, picked to wear Muller’s number nine just five months after “Der Bomber” had retired from international football, had to deal with the added scrutiny of becoming the first black man to represent Germany.
