Patrick Müller

Meyrin, Servette

Born in Geneva, to German father and Swiss mother from Lausanne Müller began his children's football with local club FC Meyrin before he moved to the youth department of Servette in 1994. One year later he advanced to their first team and immediately became regular starter. In 1998 he received his first international call up. In the 1998–99 Nationalliga A season he won the Swiss championship with Servette.

Juventus

While Müller was playing in one of his first international matches, he was watched by a scout from Juventus and soon afterwards offered a contract. Müller signed for five-years and his contract would have run from January 1999, but Müller didn't want to make the move until the summer. It never came to a match or a training with Juve, but they loaned him out inside Switzerland.

Grasshoppers

Only a few weeks after signing with Juve, Müller signed a loan contract with Grasshoppers in Zürich. Immediately he was a starter in their team. The loan contract ran over one year, but in summer 1999 GC bought Müller out of this contract and signed him definitively. Then on 24 May 2000 it was announced that Müller would leave GC and join Lyon on a four-year contract. It was also reported that the transfer fee was the equivalent of 12.75 million Swiss francs, which was the highest amount ever paid for a Swiss player to that time.

Lyon

Müller's talent had been noted by the French club Lyon, who signed him in summer 2000. In…

Müller played for the Switzerland national team on a regular basis and was called into the squad for the 2006 World Cup. He is infamous for several incidents where he blocked balls with his hands during the 2006 World Cup. He represented the national team at 2008 UEFA Euro, where the team showed good performance in the tournament, achieving the best result at the time.

Müller has a wife named Katia and has two children, daughter Norah (born 30 April 2004) and son Dan (born 5 March 2006). He holds dual nationality, Swiss and Austrian.

Lyon Ligue 1: 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08 Coupe de France: 2007-08 Coupe de la Ligue: 2000-01 Trophée des Champions: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007 Basel Swiss Super League: 2004–05