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World champion as a player and coach with Germany, three-time European Cup winner with FC Bayern Munich, two-time world footballer – Franz Beckenbauer’s achievements on the big football stage are unparalleled.
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Beckenbauer walked on the same level as Pelé and Diego Maradona; his nickname “The Emperor” went around the world and stuck with several generations. International media write about the death of the German football legend.
Germany:
“Picture”: “Our Emperor is dead”
“Southgerman newspaper”: “The shining light. Franz Beckenbauer was probably the greatest footballer that Germany has produced. For a long time he was the man who could do everything with ease – and in his ease he was the German that doesn’t actually exist.”
“Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”: “The last German emperor. No German before or since played as elegantly, so casually, as beautifully as Franz Beckenbauer. On the lawn he created the role of the free man, which he also filled off it.”
Great Britain:
“The Telegraph”: “Franz Beckenbauer: A groundbreaking central defender and football’s best thinker. With the death of the great West German captain, football loses the last representative of a generation of players who became global TV superstars” #
“The Guardian”: “Franz Beckenbauer was the consummate footballer and a winning coach (…) He had one of the best and most distinctive nicknames of all time, and like his contemporary, Eddy ‘The Cannibal’ Merckx in cycling, his nickname ‘The Kaiser’ was a perfect fit to him and served to introduce him in advance.”
“The Sun”: “THE EMPEROR Franz Beckenbauer was a German football machine whose eyesore off the field could not overshadow his greatness on it.”
“Daily Mail”: “Most who knew him well will remember his excellence on the field, his outstanding footballing intelligence, the elegance with which he moved, the joys of his company and the invaluable knowledge we gleaned from conversations with him created.”
Spain:
“Marca”: “There has never been another like him, neither before nor since. The figure of the Eternal Emperor is incomparable.”
“Mundo Sports”: “‘The Emperor’, a cross-border idol of several generations and a footballer who everyone wanted to emulate.”
France:
“Le Parisien”: “Franz Beckenbauer will forever belong in the category of immortal sports personalities.”
Italy:
“La Republic”: “Farewell to Franz Beckenbauer, one of the few players from the past who wouldn’t be out of place in today’s football.”
“La Gazzetta dello Sport”: “He was probably the best libero in the history of football, having started his career as a midfielder.”
Switzerland:
“View”: “A shock for friends, acquaintances and fans.”
“Tages-Anzeiger”: “He brought the Germans success and elegance. With every heroic story in the lead role: Franz Beckenbauer managed everything with ease. In his lightness, he was the German that doesn’t actually exist.”
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