{"id":194801,"date":"2025-10-07T08:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/194801\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T08:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:12:15","slug":"thomas-muller-makes-history-as-vancouver-whitecaps-win-canadian-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/194801\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas M\u00fcller makes history as Vancouver Whitecaps win Canadian Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday night, he tallied 1g\/1a in a 4\u20132 victory<\/a> over Vancouver FC in the 2025 Canadian Championship<\/a> final, powering the club\u2019s fourth straight Voyageurs Cup and helping earn a spot in the 2026 Concacaf Champions Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The title propelled him into uncharted territory, surpassing Toni Kroos as the most decorated German player of all time. The Bayern Munich legend now has 35 trophies, a r\u00e9sum\u00e9 highlighted by the 2014 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n

M\u00fcller’s goal from the penalty spot in the 10th minute also marked the 300th of his career for club and country. It brought his total contributions to 5g\/3a in six appearances (all competitions) for Vancouver.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, I feel more about winning the Canadian Championship and not my personal collection of trophies,\u201d M\u00fcller said. \u201cIt\u2019s a nice number, but in the end, it\u2019s the feeling with the boys, with the crowds, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m looking for and what\u2019s enjoyable for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was another good step in a decisive game, but at the moment, I just want to keep it short and go back to the boys to celebrate.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the Canadian Championship and FIFA World Cup, M\u00fcller has won 13 Bundesliga titles, two UEFA Champions League titles, two FIFA Club World Cups, eight DFL Supercups, six DFB-Pokals and 2 UEFA Supercups.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, \u201cThe Raumdeuter\u2019s\u201d goalscoring saw him net 250 goals for Bayern and 45 for Germany before his MLS arrival in August.<\/p>\n

\n Eyeing MLS Cup<\/p>\n

With the Voyageurs Cup secured, the Whitecaps, who welcomed back captain and DP attacker Ryan Gauld<\/a> for the first time since March, look to the Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs, dreaming of an extended run in an already record-breaking season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s very good to get this winning feeling, to confirm that we are able to win trophies, and sustain in tough moments,” M\u00fcller said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that gives us, in this last chapter of this season, this feeling together to get something bigger. I don\u2019t know too much about the last few years [of Whitecaps in the MLS Cup Playoffs], but the first round was always the last stage, so we want to go further, and then we will see. But that\u2019s our goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday night, he tallied 1g\/1a in a 4\u20132 victory over Vancouver FC in the 2025 Canadian Championship…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,59191,59211,24855,561,82,14700,16534,96829],"class_list":["post-194801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-championship","tag-match-reaction","tag-sendtonews","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-thomas-muller","tag-vancouver-whitecaps-fc","tag-vanvsvan-10-01-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}