Thomas Linke has withdrawn from the big football stage. At the Beckenbauer Cup, however, he roamed the Bayern jersey again-and in several ways he took a look.
Champions League winner, five-time German champion and world cup winner: Thomas Linke has won pretty much everything there is to win with FC Bayern Munich as a player.
At the Beckenbauer Cup on Tuesday, the now 55-year-old slipped back into the Munich jersey. With the legend team of the German football record champion, he played at the indoor tournament in honor of the “Kaisers”, who died in 2024 in the Munich SAP Garden. The former central defender surprised many fans not only with a remarkable goal in the preliminary round, but also with his appearance. Compared to his times as a professional, Linke is completely gray and bears a veritable full beard.
However, he still hits the gate, as left with a remarkable spacer shot in the preliminary round for the meantime 2-1 against Real Madrid’s legend team. “I think I met the, I think quite well. Increased,” he commented in a media round in which T-Online was also present. Incidentally, the game ended 2-2.
Leftists for his age noticeable fitness is apparently also explained by a regular football round in the hall. There are also other former Bayern stars such as Holger Badstuber, Michael Tarnart or Didi Hamann, he revealed Magenta Sport.
Since 2022, Linke, who played for the FCB’s first team from 1998 to 2005, has been a club representative. Previously, he was sports director at FC Ingolstadt (2011-17 and 2019), RB Leipzig (2011) and RB Salzburg (2007-11).
Franz Beckenbauer, whose honor the event was scheduled in Munich on Monday, and whose foundation will benefit the income, remains a special inspiration for Left. “Franz was the greatest personality in German football. It is nice that we got together here and it’s fun playing with the old colleagues,” said Linke. In the end, he even won the event with the Bayern legends-4-0 against Real Madrid again in the final.