Franz Beckenbauer is dead. One of football’s greatest personalities is going with the “Kaiser” – there is great sympathy.
Football legend Franz Beckenbauer has died at the age of 78. The world mourns the loss of one of the industry’s greatest and says goodbye to the “Kaiser”. DFB director Rudi Völler, whom Beckenbauer coached as team boss when he won the 1990 World Cup, said: “I am incredibly sad, the news of his death affects me very much.”
He added: “I consider it one of the great privileges of my life to have known and experienced Franz Beckenbauer. Our time together with the national team was crowned with the 1990 World Cup title in Rome, a title that would never have been possible without his outstanding coaching performance would have been. The “Kaiser” was an inspiration for more than one generation, he will forever remain the shining light of German football. With Franz Beckenbauer, German football is losing its greatest personality, I am losing a good friend.”
Former clubs also take part. Just like Hamburger SV, for whom Beckenbauer played from 1980 to 1982. The HSV wrote on the platform
1. FC Kaiserslautern, for example, found similar words about a black and white photo of Beckenbauer: “With Franz Beckenbauer, one of the greatest German footballers of all time has passed away. Rest in peace, Kaiser!” In addition to other clubs, Bayern star Thomas Müller also reported.
“Great and generous person”
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Lothar Matthäus, who became world champion under Beckenbauer in 1990, also told the “Bild” newspaper: “His death is a loss for football and for Germany as a whole. He was one of the greatest as a player and coach, but also off the pitch. Franz was an outstanding personality not only in football, and he enjoyed worldwide recognition. Everyone who knew him knows what a great and generous person Franz was. A good friend has left us. I will miss him – we will all miss him !”
Wolfgang Overath, world champion in 1974, said: “That kills me. It’s inconceivable that he’s no longer there. Not only was he the greatest we had in Germany and will ever have in terms of football, but he was also a Fine guy. He towered over everyone, he was so tall – and yet so down to earth. For my birthday three months ago he called me with all the strength he still had.”
DFB President Bernd Neuendorf described the death of Franz Beckenbauer as a “real turning point”. “We look at his life’s work with respect and great gratitude. With him we are losing a unique footballer and a lovable person,” he said.
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National coach Julian Nagelsmann made the same statement: “When Franz Beckenbauer entered a room, the room lit up; he rightly earned the title ‘lighting figure of German football’. Until the very end, an aura surrounded him that also reflected the health problems and strokes of fate that occurred “He had to cope with it, I couldn’t shake it. I am grateful and proud that I was able to get to know him and will remember him fondly.”