Late club legend honored
Emotional moment: Bayern members remember Beckenbauer
Updated on December 8, 2024 – 11:16 a.mReading time: 2 minutes
FC Bayern’s annual general meeting is dedicated to club legend Franz Beckenbauer, who died in January. An emotional moment occurs.
FC Bayern’s annual general meeting on Sunday is dedicated to Franz Beckenbauer, who died in January at the age of 78. President Herbert Hainer asked the members of the German record champions to rise from their seats in the hall. The lights were dimmed and pictures and names of those who had died since the last general meeting were shown on the video screen. Above all, the picture of Germany’s football legend Franz Beckenbauer. The names of him and Andi Brehme were the first to be seen on the screen behind the stage, along with black and white portraits of the two. Brehme died almost a month after Beckenbauer in February at the age of just 63.
Widow Heidi Beckenbauer and son Joel experienced the moving moment on the second Advent in the front row right next to Honorary President Uli Hoeneß. Hainer said their visit was a “great honor” when he welcomed them: “It is a great honor for us that you are with us today.” Images of Beckenbauer could be seen on the video wall even before his first words on stage.
Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup as a player in 1974 and as a team manager in 1990, died on January 7th of this year at the age of 78 and was buried in his hometown of Munich. Beckenbauer was the “lighting figure”, the most influential personality in German football – and one of the greatest of his profession in the world.
The former Bayern professional Brehme, who scored the decisive goal for the World Cup title under team boss Beckenbauer in 1990, died a few weeks later at the age of 63.
On Sunday, as part of the annual general meeting, members had the opportunity to view the exhibition “Forever Our Emperor”. Exhibits were on display there, such as the national champions’ cup, which Beckenbauer brought to Munich for the first time with FC Bayern 50 years ago in 1974.