2024-01-08 19:10:00
He was one of the greatest in German football history and brought the 2006 World Cup to Germany: Franz Beckenbauer. At the age of 78, “the emperor” has now died.
Franz Beckenbauer is dead. The German football legend died at the age of 78, as his family and the German Football Association (DFB) announced. Beckenbauer was also one of the greatest in football worldwide, he became world champion as a player and coach and brought the 2006 World Cup to Germany.
Beckenbauer was born on September 11, 1945 and grew up in the working-class district of Giesing in Munich. At the age of 13, Beckenbauer came to FC Bayern as a junior player and quickly rose to become a top performer for the Munich team. At the age of 20, he was a national player.
The first superstar of German football
Among other things, he won four national championship titles and was a three-time winner of the European Cup and World Cup winner. Because of his lightness and elegance, Beckenbauer rose to become the “Emperor” of German football – as he was nicknamed. He was the first German football superstar.
Beckenbauer later played in the USA for Cosmos New York and until the end of his career as a player for HSV. After his active career, Beckenbauer became team manager of the national team and also world champion as a coach in 1990. He later became coach and president of his FC Bayern.
Beckenbauer brought “the summer fairy tale”
Beckenbauer also celebrated a great triumph when, as an official, he brought the 2006 World Cup to Germany – the “summer fairy tale”, as the tournament was often referred to. However, his reputation was cast by the millions in payments that flowed around the awarding of the World Cup. He was never proven to have committed any wrongdoing.
In his first reaction to the news of his death, Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote on Platform
Hans-Joachim Watzke, chairman of the supervisory board of the German Football League DFL, praised Beckenbauer as “definitely the greatest German footballer of all time” and “one of the greatest people I have ever met.”
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