The guy who would later be nicknamed der Kaiser, the emperor, grew up in Giesing, a working-class neighborhood that was basically home to the Bleus [Munich fans of 1860] rather than the Reds [Bayern fans]. supporting 1860 and dreamed of betting for them.
He was also in a position to do so, but faced them for the first time in the summer of 1958 while still betting on the local SC 1906 team. The final of the U14 tournament was a very close affair, and Beckenbauer, then the game as the center. forward, concerned in an ongoing war with the middle center Gerhard Konig, whose surname means king in German.
The main points of the attack are vague, several decades later, but what is not disputed is that at one point, Konig aimed a slap at his opponent. It was after this incident that Beckenbauer, 13, made a decision that he would sign by Bayern later that year, instead of 1860 as planned.
“It is the fate that they gave us in combination and I became a red and not a blue,” Beckenbauer told Bayerischer Rundfunk, when Bavarian radio met Konig and the Kaiser in 2010.
Beckenbauer’s resolution would reposition the course of German football, even if we didn’t know it at the time. When they began to climb the youth ladder, after all, Bayern missed a spot in the Bundesliga in 1963.
The League government sought only one Munich club to be part of the newly created elite, and Munich in 1860 received the price ticket because it had won the Oberliga Sod 1962-1963. That choice turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Bayern. .
“The worried state of financeArray . . . has forced the club to dispense with expensive stars and players returning from its own youth team, as well as talented footballers from the Bavarian provinces,” Bayern said.
Among the young players were goalkeeper Sepp Maier and Beckenbauer, who debuted and scored in the 4-0 win over St. Paul in June 1964, later that year, Bayern also scored 1860 with Gerd Muller’s signing and promotion. . soon followed.
More success too. Bayern lost their first Bundesliga match 1-0 to 1860 in August 1965, but while their local rivals won the league title, the Reds lifted the DFB Cup. Beckenbauer scored the insurance purpose in the final against Duisburg to claim his first piece of silver. .
Later this summer, Beckenbauer, still just 20 years old, one of the stars of the 1966 FIFA World Cup, his west German appearance suffered a ruthless overtime loss to England in the final at Wembley, but the then midfielder named for the tournament team. and won the award for the most productive young player after scoring 4 goals.
There are conflicting reports about how he is known as Kaiser, however, his sublime taste for the game (betting like a lyric and leading attacks from behind) really helped. that ability to spend countless hours betting two in front of the wall of his house.
“This wall is the ultimate teammate you could wish for,” he said. “If you play a smart pass, you’ll get it back correctly, without having to run. “
Whatever the origin, Beckenbauer’s nickname remained in the last decade of 1960, and it was at this time that he and Bayern began to triumph at new heights. Between 1966 and 1977 they won the Bundesliga and dfB Cup four times each, and Bayern also won the 3 consecutive European Cup between 1974 and 1976 and the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1967. At that time installed as patron, Beckenbauer won the 1972 European Championship and the 1974 World Cup, the latter in his hometown. at the Olympiastadion in Munich.
The four-time German footballer of the year became a club captain and it was no surprise, given his safe and inspiring moves on and off the court. After severely breaking his shoulder during the 1970 World Cup semi-final against Italy, for example, the player returned after the remedy in the 70th minute with his right arm attached to his body and hand resting under his heart. Italy would win an attack known as the “attack of the century” 4-3 after an extra time, but Beckenbauer’s courage, betting in pain after his team used the assigned understudy, was widely praised.
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Geoff Hurst, the Germans’ enemy in the 1966 final, summed up the stage well, more than 50 years later.
“Beckenbauer showed his character and may play as well with one arm as other people can with two,” Hurst told Supersport.
In 1977, a star nicknamed “the White Pelé” through the German sports magazine Kicker ended up betting with the legendary Brazilian – one of his idols since the 1958 World Cup – at the Cosmos in New York. It’s a time of success for any of them, since they won the North American Football League three times.
Although Beckenbauer played in front of the crowd in the United States, the European Footballer of the Year in 1972 and 1976 also enjoyed a respite from the tension and expectations he had faced in his home country. His resolve to cross the Atlantic ended his career in West Germany after scoring 14 goals in 103 games.
“It’s the most productive resolution of my life to come to New York,” Beckenbauer told The New York Times in 1978. “Here it is so private. I happen to put it on without other people seeing me.
However, the veteran returned to Germany in 1980 and, as age and injuries accompanied him, he would win the Bundesliga for the fifth and final two years of tenure in Hamburg. After 571 games in German football, adding 57 goals in 535 matches for Bayern: Beckenbauer’s career came to an end after another brief period with Cosmos in 1983.
One of the greatest players in history, he named the 20th Century World Cup in 1998 and the DREAM Team of the FIFA World Cup in 2002. Englishman Bobby Charlton, whom Beckenbauer scored in the 1966 World Cup final, also decided on German. . in his xi most sensible of all time.
“He had many of the same qualities as Bobby Moore,” Charlton told FourFourTwo magazine, naming Beckenbauer in his Perfect XI in 2007 along with former England teammate Moore. “Franz was a glorious ball dealer, a wonderful tackler, he was in control of a stage and never panicked. They were incredibly cool and never seemed to be in the most sensible way. Such a difficult player to face.
Once Beckenbauer’s playing days were over, he began to enrich his legend through the manager adaptation. Head coach of West Germany in 1984, no less, even if he had no training experience.
Back in Mexico, the scene of his bravery as a player opposed to Italy in 1970, the 40-year-old took his country to the 1986 World Cup final, where he took Diego Maradona’s Argentina to the limit before losing 3-2.
“It was a massive success,” Beckenbauer told Der Spiegel in 2006. “1990 is a children’s game by comparison.
In the summer of 1990, when their home country was just months away from reunification, Beckenbauer led West Germany to another definitive World Cup clash with Argentina, with quality players such as Jurgen Klinsmann, Rudi Vuller and captain Lothar Matthaus. in camp, Andreas Brehme scored the only goal from the penalty spot in Rome.
“Go out, have fun, play football,” Beckenbauer told his team. They did and he was the time, after Brazilian Mario Zagallo, to win the World Cup as a player and as a coach.
“I had learned a lot,” he told Der Spiegel, talking about what he had replaced since 1986. “In 1990, I focused on the essentials: the team.
“But the decisive thing, of course, is that a smart team had grown up. A better combination of fun and youth, with boys capable of running and boys who had stamina. It’s a unit.
Former Bayern and Borussia Dortmund coach Otto Rehhagel, winner of the Bundesliga while running Kaiserslautern and Werder Bremen, has accurately described the extent of Beckenbauer’s influence in German football.
“If Franz tells them the ball is in a squad, they will,” said Rehhagel, who also won UEFA EURO 2004 with Greece.
Beckenbauer spent other brief terms as marseille and Bayern coaches, winning the 1993/94 Bundesliga and the 1995/96 UEFA Cup with the latter, and then was president of his first club for 15 years, against a much-loved player of the German team. Television.
“Success is like hunting a shy deer, ” he once said. “The wind will have to be right. Perfume, stars and the moon.
Talent helps, of course. And as a player and coach, Beckenbauer had that in abundance.
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