2024-01-09 22:21:29
The death of Franz Beckenbauer moves the world. The greatest German football legend died on Sunday at the age of 78. Beckenbauer was also one of the greatest in football worldwide, he became world champion as a player in 1974 and coach in 1990, brought the 2006 World Cup to Germany and gave us the summer fairy tale.
Jürgen Klopp (56) has now also commented on the death of the “Emperor” with some distance. The Liverpool FC coach said in an interview on the club homepagethat German media asked him on Monday for a quick reaction to the sad news. “But I mightn’t, I had to process it because Franz was a really big part of my life,” Klopp explained.
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“The world will be a completely different place without him and I really had to process that because I don’t know the world without him,” said Klopp and added: “We will miss him and I will miss him very much.” Beckenbauer was “Germany’s best footballer of all time,” but “an even better person,” said the 56-year-old, “and that’s really difficult to achieve, but he did it.”
Klopp said he was able to get to know Beckenbauer better around the 2006 home World Cup: “He was really good company, he was funny, he was intelligent – he was pretty much everything you would want to be.” He got it from him learned not to pretend even under the biggest spotlight.
The last time he spoke to Beckenbauer on the phone was a few months ago, he revealed Premier-League-Coach. After the news of Beckenbauer’s death, he watched a video message that he had sent to the former world champion on his 75th birthday. “I looked at it yesterday and it was really difficult.”
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Former Chancellor Angela Merkel (69) also commented on Tuesday. “I received the news of Franz Beckenbauer’s death with great sadness,” said Merkel. “Franz Beckenbauer was a great personality in German football – and far beyond.”
Merkel remembered the first meeting with Beckenbauer: “I met him personally in 2006, the year of the World Cup in Germany, which shaped our country like few other events. The fact that this might become an unforgettable summer fairy tale would have been unthinkable without the cosmopolitan Franz Beckenbauer. He managed to make the motto of the World Cup a reality: the world was truly a guest of friends.”
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