2024-01-08T17:11:15+00:00
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/ The German Football Association announced today, Monday, the death of German football legend “Kaiser” Fraz Beckenbauer, a world champion as a player in 1974 and as a coach in 1990, on Sunday at the age of 78.
Beckenbauer, captain of the West German national team in the 1970s, coach of Die Mannschaft between 1984 and 1990, and a former manager at Bayern Munich in the 1990s, withdrew from public life in recent years due to health problems.
Beckenbauer had a strong presence on the field with the West German national team and Bayern Munich, with whom he won the European Cup three times in a row, and he held the title of Kaiser.
The family said, according to what was reported by the Bild newspaper website: “It is with great sadness that we announce that my husband and our father, Franz Beckenbauer, died peacefully yesterday, Sunday, surrounded by his family. We hope that there will be the ability to mourn in silence and refrain from asking any questions.”
Lothar Matthäus, the former doyen of world players who won the 1990 World Cup, expressed his shock at Beckenbauer’s death and said, according to what Bild reported:
“His death is a loss for football and for Germany as a whole. He was one of the greatest as a player and a coach, but also off the field. Franz was an outstanding figure not only in football, he enjoyed worldwide recognition. Everyone who knew him knows what a great and generous person Franz was. He has passed away We have a good friend. I will miss him – we will all miss him!”