{"id":736415,"date":"2026-06-14T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736415\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:31:10","slug":"why-thomas-muller-isnt-playing-for-germany-at-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736415\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Thomas Muller isn&#8217;t playing for Germany at the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Muller is one of the greatest players of his generation, a legendary striker for Germany who spent the prime years of his club career with Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s still playing, too, now in Major league Soccer with the Vancouver Whitecaps.<\/p>\n<p>He isn&#8217;t, though, playing at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Germany has a talented roster, as usual, but it doesn&#8217;t include Muller.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/football\/news\/canada-cyle-larin-proves-all-cliches-true-canadian-world-cup-hero\/217abd3f85ebea617536e5f7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cyle Larin proves all the cliches true for Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why isn&#8217;t Thomas Muller playing at the World Cup?<\/p>\n<p>Muller is done playing internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Players often retire from international football before ending their club career. The 36-year old Muller is still working in MLS, but he hasn&#8217;t played with Germany since 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Muller ended his German national career with 131 caps and 45 goals.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0Tim Howard commercial disrespects USMNT legend<\/p>\n<p>He has made 19 appearances with Vancouver since joining and scored 11 goals.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s certainly a case to be made that Muller could still be an impactful player for Germany if he was given an international call-up. It would&#8217;ve been fascinating to see Muller play in this North American World Cup after he came to Canada to play for Vancouver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, though, Muller will be watching with the rest of the German fanbase as the current Germany squad tries to make a deep run at the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>More FIFA World Cup news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Muller is one of the greatest players of his generation, a legendary striker for Germany who spent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-736415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}