2024-02-21 10:14:23
In heaven, he will form a magical triangle with Pele and Maradona. This was stated after the death of the symbol of German and world football Franz Beckenbauer, one of his closest friends – Andreas Breme.
44 days later, the player who brought the Kaiser the world title and as a coach made a painful surprise and followed him.
In the early hours of Tuesday, the 63-year-old legend died in a hospital in Munich. Half an hour before midnight, his friend Zuzane Schaefer calls an ambulance. Even in it, the paramedics try to resuscitate Breme.
Later, in the hospital, the efforts of the doctors did not yield results, and one of the great German football players ended his life. The cause – sudden cardiac death (the medical term is cardiac arrest – b.a.).
Andy Brehme was part of a generation that formed one of the strongest squads in the Bundesliga. It was indicative of the class of these players that most of them made transfers in the strongest championship in the late 80s and early 90s of the last century – the Italian one. Breme played 4 years at “Inter”, where he moved from “Bayern”, and his teammates were Lothar Mateus and Jurgen Klinsmann.
It is the first on his 60th birthday that highlights a fact that hardly many people remember. “Yes, I may have become the No. 1 player in Europe and the world for 1990, but you, Andy, were named No. 1 in Italy for 1989,” are the words of Mateus.
A left defender to be selected as a football player for Italy at a time when Argentine legend Diego Maradona, Dutch masters Marco van Basten and Ruud Gullit, and the aforementioned Matheus and Klinsmann are playing in Serie A? I think the comment is redundant.
The peak of Breme’s career, which was mentioned at the beginning, is also connected with Italy. On July 8, 1990, the World Cup final between Germany and Argentina was played at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.
In the 85th minute, the Bundesliga has the chance to take a penalty. Full-time contractor Mateus is not hiring. Behind the ball stands the left back Breme and carries the German title with coach Franz Beckenbauer. He already has one as a player since 1974.
In Breme’s career, there are several moments related to Bulgaria. As for the Bundesteam, they are ones to remember forever.
On February 15, 1984, Germany visited the Yuri Gagarin Stadium in Varna for a control match. Bremen has been a holder since its debut. The guests beat with 3:2.
On July 10, 1994, in the greatest game of Bulgaria, Breme appeared in the 83rd minute on the field of “Giants Stadium” in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The foam team then already formed the final 2:1 in the 1/4-final of the World Cup, which turned out to be Bremen’s last match for Germany.
In his last match at all, on May 9, 1998, at 1:1 with Hamburger, he played alongside Marian Hristov in the Kaiserslautern team, which became a sensational Bundesliga champion.
Perhaps as surprising as the sad news of Andy Breme’s passing came.