Hermann Gerland – football manager | BIRKENSTORY | BIRKENSTOCK

“Tiger, I wouldn’t 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 dyed-in-the-wool Bochumer Hermann Gerland. “Tiger,” as everyone still calls him to this day, is a two-times Club World Cup winner and a two-times treble winner, and won Germany’s 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, Bayern’s head coach from 2009 to 2011, sees things slightly differently: “Hermann, you said three sen