Franz Anton Beckenbauer, Born in Munich in 1945, he died this Monday at the age of 78. The German legend stood out as a midfielder, but he adapted to different positions on the field and is considered a great exponent of the libero position defense, which was unknown until his time.
is capped 103 times for West Germany and played in three FIFA World Cups and two European Championships. He was the first captain to lift the World Cup and European Championship at international level and the European Cup at club level.
From a young age he stood out in the team TSV Munich 1860. The FC Bayern Munich, The other team in the city, which at that time was no more than a regular Bundesliga team, signed him when he was 14 years old. Beckenbauer debuted in the German league in 1964 and stunned the world at the 1966 World Cup in England by scoring 4 goals for Germany, where they finished in second place. He spent 14 seasons at Bayern Munich, from 1963-64 to 1976-77. During this period of glory, he managed to win two Ballon d’Ors (1972 and 1976) for his famous work with the German national team and Bayern Munich.
After that stage, he went to New York Cosmos for four seasons stopping in 1980 with Hamburger and finally returning in 1983 with the New York Cosmos. Finally, his sports career would end in 1980 after receiving a severe blow to the kidneys that would force him to leave the playing field as a player and begin his career as a coach.
His successful transition from player to coach
When Beckenbauer returned to the national team in 1984, after retiring a year earlier, he did so as technical director. Surprisingly, der Kaiser, who had no coaching experience, led his team until the final of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, although they fell short in this match against Argentina.
In Italy, in the 1990 World Cup, Beckenbauer further increased his legend by becoming the second person in the world to win the World Cup as a player and as a coach (a fact achieved by the Brazilian Mário Zagallo for the first time twenty year before). , in 1970).
He also taught the Olympique de Marseille the 1990-91 season and at Bayern Munich in two periods in 1994 and 1996 as interim until the appointment of the respective coaches, while he held his positions on the club’s board of directors.
In 2009, he left the presidency of the German club Bayern Munich, leaving the position in the hands of former football player Uli Hoeneß. He is also the vice president of the DFB (Deutscher Fussball Bund or German Football Federation), in addition to being the main organizer of the 2006 World Cup, which was played in the months of June and July in Germany, and he was named “Honorary President ” of Bayern and “Honorary Member” of the German Football Federation.
Source: La Verdad
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