A bronze statue of Gerd Müller scoring West Germany’s 2-1 winner in the 1974 World Cup final was on Thursday unveiled in the late striker’s birth town of Nördlingen. The ceremony took place on what would have been Müller’s 77th birthday in the presence of his widow, Uschi Müller, and former Bayern Munich team-mates including Sepp Maier and Uli Hoeneß. “It is a day that should express what Gerd Müller achieved in his far too short life, how he inspired entire generations and how he moved a nation, captivating it – even far beyond his death,” Bavarian Football Federation supremo Christoph Kern s…