Franz Beckenbauer, one of the great legends of German football, died this Monday at the age of 78, leaving a great loss and sadness in world football. The player who best played the libero position, now gone, has always been considered one of the greatest defenders in the history of football.boasts an amazing track recordboth as a footballer and a coach.
His record is one of the most prolific in memory in German and European football. As a player he won five Bundesliga titles. (four at Bayern Munich and one at Hamburg when he returned to Germany in 1982) and four German Cups. Additionally, with the New York Cosmos he won three American Soccer League titles.
On an international level At Bayern, he won three European Cups and an Intercontinental. And he was one of the pillars of the great Germany of the seventies, crowned champion of the European Championship in 1972 and the World Cup in 1974.
If as a footballer he won almost everything, cAs a coach he has an enviable track record, the height of the great legend that he is. In Bayern the Kaiser declared himself Bundesliga champion (1994) and the 1996 UEFA Cup, as well the coach who led Germany to be crowned World Champion in 1990.
About individual awards, Beckenbauer also celebrated almost all: two Ballon d’Or awards (1972 and 1976), third best football player of the 20th century according to IFFHS, Dream Team of the FIFA World Cup, included in the best historical eleven of the Euro Cup, of Bayern Munich. ..
The world of football is now a bit of an orphan without Beckenbauer.
Complete tributes to Franz Beckenbauer
In total, there are 21 titles as a footballer and 3 as a coach:
6 Bundesliga (1 as coach)
3 European Cups
4 German Cups
3 United States League
1 Intercontinental Cup
1 European Cup Winners’ Cup
1 Euro Cup
2 World Cups (1 as coach)
1 UEFA Cup (as coach)
Source: La Verdad
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