Another final - but still no Mullers on German horizon

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

PARIS (AFP) — Once more, Germany are in the final of a European Championship, their sixth.

Yet despite the country's impeccable record there is one piece of the jigsaw which Die Mannschaft has been trying in vain to fit for more than 30 years.

A true, dyed-in-the-wool number nine who can call himself the new Gerd Muller.

With 10 goals in five games the German strikeforce, ably backed up by midfielders Michael Ballack and Bastian Schweinsteiger, are hardly impotent - yet comprises, in Lukas Podolski and Miroslav Klose, two men who hail from the Silesia region of Poland.

The pair's credentials are not in question as they have now scored 69 international goals between them.

That's just one more than 'Der Bomber' netted - in only 62 outings - for...