Former German international Andreas Brehme -world champion in 1990 He died today, aged 63, of a heart attack, according to what was reported by the newspaper Bild.
The Argentine fan does not have a pleasant memory of Brehme since he was the one who scored, from a penalty kick, the winning goal for Germany in the final in Italy against the Argentine National Team. With this goal he entered the list of players who have given Germany a world title, and which includes the legendary Helmut Rahn and Gerd Müller and to which later, in 2014, the name of Mario Götze would be added.
Brehme He played for Saarbrucken, Kaiserslautern – where he was also a coach -, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan and Zaragoza.
Brehme played the World Cups in 1986, 1990 and 1994. In 1998, at the age of 38, he retired and then continued to be involved in football, although his career as a coach did not prosper.
In 2006 he had his last stable job: assistant to Giovanni Trapattoni at Stuttgart. Since then she has only done some sporadic advertising work.
After touching the sky with his hands in the 90 World Cup, the historic German full-back began to enter, little by little, the twilight of a footballer.
He fell into debt, he had to mortgage his house for 400,000 and he had to take out a loan of 200,000 that he did not pay and for which he had to answer in court,
Faced with this situation, voices of former colleagues were raised and one of them, Oliver Straube, He offered her a job cleaning toilets.
Breheme He had a special idolatry for Diego Maradona, with whom he faced off in two World Cup finals.
“He showed me once again that, in addition to all his physical and technical skills (which made him the best), Diego had a unique relationship with fans around the world. That makes him really special and he still leaves a big empty space…”, he expressed at the time.
After a few months of the death of Maradona, The German stated: “We all miss Diego very much and I think about him almost every day. “Football continues without him, but it has become poorer.”
And to demonstrate his idolatry over Mradona he was categorical “Diego was the best player in the world. To give you an idea, it was Messi and Ronaldo in the same person.”
Andreas Brehme is gone, a historic figure in German and world football, a great admirer of Maradona who, now, will meet again who knows where and, perhaps, face each other in a third World Cup.
Source: Ambito
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