Franz Beckenbauer, one of only three men to win the World Cup as player and as a coach with Brazil's Mario Zagallo being the first, passed away on Sunday, the DFB said. Former captain of the German team in the 1970s, Beckenbauer had in the last years been suffering from health problems. (More Football News)
“It is wiꦕth deep sadness that we announce that my husband and our father, Franz Beckenbauer, passed away peacefully in his sleep yesterday, Sunday, surrounded by his family,” the family said in a statement to dpa, the German news agency. “We ask that we be allowed grieve in ꧒peace and spared any questions.”
As worᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚld football grieves about the German legend, hꦇere are ten facts about him that you need to know:
- Beckenbauer was the first person to win the FIFA World Cup as captain (1974) and manager (1990). In the 1974 final, he captained West Germany to the World Cup title. The Ger𒁏man also coached the national side to World Cup glory in the 1990 World Cup final against Argentina.
- Beckenbauer shone during the 1966 Worl💛d Cup, aged just 20, and w♛on the award for the tournament's best young player.
- Beckenbauer has also won the European Cha꧟mpionship in 1972, as well as the Ballon d'Or twice.
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- He played 582 times for Baye✱rn Munich and went on to win top honours with the German top flight club as both as a player and a manager.
- As a player for Bayern, he lifted five league titles and was the captain for the German giants' three European Cup wins in 1974, 1975🐻 and 1976.
- Beckenbauer was a v💃oracio🐻us traveler and personally visited all 31 countries who had qualified for the World Cup in Germany in 2006.
- Beckenbauer also had spells as ♔president at Bayern and vice-president of the German Footba𓃲ll Association.
- Beckenbauer was in 2014 briefly suspended by FIFA’s ethics committee from all football-related activity for failing to cooperate with prosecꦉutor Michael Garcia’s probe of alleged corruption in the 2018 and 2022 World Cup votes. The suspension was lifted during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil when he agreed to cooperate.
ಌ- He also had stints in the United States with the New York Cosmos in the late 1970s a🦂nd early 1980s.
- In that 2010 interview, Beckenbauer also recalled visits to famed nightclub Studio 54 with fellow Cosmos stars Peleඣ and Carlos🔥 Alberto.
Beckenbauer’s death comes just two days after the announcement that Mario Zagallo, the Brazilian who became the first person to win the World Cup as a player and coach, had died at the age of 92.
(With Agency inputs)
