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Musiala double hands Bayern win at season restart as club remembers Beckenbauer

Musiala double hands Bayern win at season restart as club remembers Beckenbauer

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MUNICH, Germany :Bayern Munich’s Jamal Musiala scored twice to give the champions a 3-0 victory over Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga restart on Friday as the club remembered Germany great Franz Beckenbauer who died last week. Bundesliga top scorer Harry Kane was also on target in stoppage time to take his league tally to 22 goals to equal Robert Lewandowski’s all-time league record for most goals at the halfway stage of a Bundesliga season. The Bavarians are in second place in the standings on 41 points, one behind leaders Bayer Leverkusen, in action at Augsburg on Saturday. “It was a great game. We had possession a lot and did good counter-pressing,” Musiala said. “We could have created more chances, we are all hungry. The most important thing is that we kept a clean sheet and got the three points.” The Germany international was assisted both times by Leroy Sane, who has set up 10 league this season. “We are really good friends, we like to play together and we both are very strong with the ball. …

Farewell Franz Beckenbauer, a true football untouchable | Franz Beckenbauer

Farewell Franz Beckenbauer, a true football untouchable | Franz Beckenbauer

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ANOTHER LEGEND LEAVES US Building an all-time male football XI can be a fun or a tedious affair, depending on whether you decide to share your selections on the internet. Some of the positions are, of course, up for debate but this is too short a tea-timely email to get into that discussion. There are, however, half-a-dozen players who are automatic picks. Lev Yashin, Paolo Maldini, Diego Maradona, Leo Messi, Pelé and Franz Beckenbauer. They are The Untouchables or The Non-Negotiables, to give them their slightly less catchy nickname. No Greatest XI can be built without these six, nor shall it be. Regrettably, Cruyff, CR7, R9, Xavi, Ronaldinho, Zidane, Di Stéfano, Puskas, Charlton and co are all going to have to fit around them. And no, you can’t have Zizou as a holding midfielder. Beckenbauer is the greatest centre-back of all time. Those in England will shout for Bobby Moore, and in Italy there will be calls for Franco Baresi. But they are just contenders, understudies, sous chefs. Beckenbauer could cook, alright, combining Franco Baresi’s …

Tributes to Franz Beckenbauer and a European roundup – Football Weekly | Football

Tributes to Franz Beckenbauer and a European roundup – Football Weekly | Football

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Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. On the podcast today: Franz Beckenbauer has passed away at the age of 78; he won the World Cup as both a player and a manager and laid the foundations for Bayern Munich’s dominance of German football. The panel talk about his legacy and another legend lost. Elsewhere, Girona and Real Madrid fight it out at the top of La Liga – can Girona go the distance? And can Barcelona afford to sign anyone? Plus: Inter cling on at the top of Serie A while Napoli struggle and your questions answered. Photograph: taken from picture library Support The Guardian The Guardian is editorially independent. And we want to keep our journalism open and accessible to all. But we increasingly need our readers to fund our work. Support The Guardian Source link

Beckenbauer defined an era as a player and that was just the beginning | Franz Beckenbauer

Beckenbauer defined an era as a player and that was just the beginning | Franz Beckenbauer

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In late February 2020, myself and a handful of other British journalists were given a tour of the German Football Museum, which looms opposite the central station in Dortmund. Our affable guide provided anecdote and colour for the huge array of artefacts spanning the sport’s history both pre-and post-reunification – and then we reached Beckenbauer Corner. The momentos celebrating the career of Franz Beckenbauer, spanning more than four decades as player, coach, administrator and influencer (in the more traditional sense of the word) were gathered and cordoned off, in a sort of museum purgatory. The collection’s long-term fate would be decided, our guide explained, after the Fifa Ethics Committee concluded its investigation into bribery centred around Germany’s successful bid to host the 2006 World Cup. In early 2021 the investigation closed, when a statute of limitations expired, and the charges were dropped. The museum scene was a perfect sum-up, in many ways, of Beckenbauer’s complicated legacy. Der Kaiser, the German football legend who died on Sunday aged 78, was always a leader and a pioneer, …

Franz Beckenbauer – a life in pictures | Football

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Beckenbauer appeared in his first World Cup in 1966, playing every match, up to and including the final, where he and Bobby Charlton were instructed by their respective managers to man-mark each other, thus cancelling out each other’s play. Beckenbauer was an elegant and dominant defender, and such was his assurance in possession that he is credited with creating the modern sweeper role. Photograph: Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images Source link

Beckenbauer revolutionised game and became icon of German sporting success

Beckenbauer revolutionised game and became icon of German sporting success

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Franz Beckenbauer, who has died at the age of 78, helped modernise soccer and came to personify Germany’s post-war sporting success, captaining his country to the 1974 World Cup title on home soil to anchor his legacy. ‘Der Kaiser’, as he was nicknamed for his imperious playing style and command of the game, was for decades synonymous with Germany’s success on the pitch, as player and then coach. He amassed every major honour in his glittering playing career and continued his extraordinary record of success after switching to the manager’s bench. Beckenbauer won 103 caps and captained West Germany to World Cup success in 1974, two years after lifting the European title. At club level he steered Bayern Munich to three successive European Cup victories from 1974 to 1976 and won the World Club Cup, the European Cup Winners’ Cup and eight domestic trophies – four league titles and four cup triumphs. He was West Germany’s footballer of the year a record four times and twice European footballer of the year. Widely regarded as one …

Franz Beckenbauer, German football legend, dies at 78

Franz Beckenbauer, German football legend, dies at 78

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German soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer, head of Germany’s organizing committee for the soccer World Cup, plays with the Golden Ball for the World Cup in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, on April 18, 2006. JAN BAUER / AP Legend Franz Beckenbauer, who left a unique imprint on German football as player, captain and coach, has died at the age of 78, the German Football Association (DFB) said on Monday, January 8. Beckenbauer, one of only three men to win the World Cup as a player and as a coach, passed away on Sunday, the DFB said. “Franz Beckenbauer was definitely the biggest German footballer of all time, and above all one of the greatest men who I have known,” said DFB vice president Hans-Joachim Watzke. Tributes poured in for the football icon, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz and former German captain Lothar Matthaeus alike saying “we will miss him.” UEFA hailed Beckenbauer as “one of European football’s greatest sons” who “shaped German football like no other,” while the English Premier League described him as …

Franz Beckenbauer was the complete footballer and a triumphant coach | Franz Beckenbauer

Franz Beckenbauer was the complete footballer and a triumphant coach | Franz Beckenbauer

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Franz Beckenbauer will always have a place in football history quite apart from popularising the role of libero, establishing Bayern Munich as the force in German football and being one of only three individuals to win the World Cup as a player and as a manager. He had one of the best and most distinctive nicknames ever, and just as with his near contemporary Eddy “The Cannibal” Merckx in cycling, his Der Kaiser moniker both suited him and served to introduce him in advance. Opinion is divided on where the appellation arose. Some say he was asked to pose beside a bust of an actual emperor, others point to an on-field incident when he effortlessly bettered a German opponent who was known as the King. Either way, there was always something of the statesman about Beckenbauer, whether in action as a player, manager or administrator. He appeared to be cut from different cloth than most footballers, even though he came from a modest, working-class background in war-ravaged Munich. Certainly Beckenbauer’s nickname did him more favours …

Franz Beckenbauer Dies, Aged 78

Franz Beckenbauer Dies, Aged 78

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Franz Beckenbauer, the German football great who helped his country win the World Cup both as player and coach, has died. He was 78. The icon, affectionately nicknamed Der Kaiser, won the World Cup as West Germany’s captain in 1974 and as a manager in 1990. Beckenbauer’s family said in a statement to German news agency dpa: “It is with 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. “We ask that we be allowed grieve in peace and spared any questions.” Beckenbauer was one of German football’s central figures. As a player, he reimagined the defender’s role in the game and captained West Germany to the World Cup title in 1974 after it had lost to England in the 1966 final. He was the coach when West Germany won the tournament again in 1990, a symbolic moment for a country in the midst of reunification, months after the Berlin Wall fell. Beckenbauer was also instrumental in bringing the …

German football legend Franz Beckenbauer dies at 78

German football legend Franz Beckenbauer dies at 78

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Franz Beckenbauer, one of Germany’s greatest soccer players, who captained the team to World Cup victory in 1974 then won the tournament again as manager in 1990, has died at the age of 78, German news agency DPA reported on Monday.  Issued on: 08/01/2024 – 17:49 1 min Beckenbauer was a classy, dominant presence on the pitch for West Germany and Bayern Munich in the 1960s and 70s, using the calmness on the ball and effortless distribution that marked his midfield performances to virtually invent the central defensive sweeper role where he found most success. He collected 103 caps for West Germany, winning the 1972 European championship and then the World Cup on home soil having lost in the final to England in 1966. His Bayern Munich team was the best club side in the world during the mid-1970s, winning three successive European Cups and three successive Bundesliga titles, and Beckenbauer himself was twice named European footballer of the year. As national team manager his West Germany team lost in the 1986 World Cup final …