Franz Beckenbauer Passes Away

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[Batman]

What a shame. He was my Dad's second favorite player after Pele. Often times for his birthday or Father's Day I would get him the newest Germany kit which this Jamaican man proudly wore in honor of The Kaiser.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

The all-star match in heaven just got richer today!

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

Rest in peace

 

[Riou]

One of the biggest legends in the sport really, what a legacy he leaves.

RIP

 

[albakos]

One of the greatest legends of the game. I think he was the first ever to have won the World Cup as a player (1974) and as a manager (1990).

Only Mario Zagallo achieved the same feat with his 3 World Cup titles (1958, 1962, 1970) and as a Brazil NT manager in 1994.

Coincidentally, both passed away in a space of one week or so.

What a shame. He was my Dad's second favorite player after Pele. Often times for his birthday or Father's Day I would get him the newest Germany kit which this Jamaican man proudly wore in honor of The Kaiser.

My Dad also used to say with confidence that Beckenbauer was among the best in World Cup history along with Pele and Cruyff.

There will always be a level of nostalgia, but players of those generations and up to early noughties (before Roman's money), had more flair and elegance.

Back then football was more of an art, than an industry of what we see today

 

[Batman]

One of the greatest legends of the game. I think he was the first ever to have won the World Cup as a player (1974) and as a manager (1990).

Only Mario Zagallo achieved the same feat with his 3 World Cup titles (1958, 1962, 1970) and as a Brazil NT manager in 1994.

Coincidentally, both passed away in a space of one week or so.


My Dad also used to say with confidence that Beckenbauer was among the best in World Cup history along with Pele and Cruyff.

There will always be a level of nostalgia, but players of those generations and up to early noughties (before Roman's money), had more flair and elegance.

Back then football was more of an art, than an industry of what we see today

For sure. For all the talk about older players vs today's athletes, the reality is that Pele did every piece of skill you've ever seen anyone from Maradona to Ronaldinho do in the 50s and 60s with a heavy leather ball on destroyed pitches with people trying to break his legs. The only defender of the last few decades who belongs in the same sentence as Beckenbauer was probably Maldini. Impact as a manager and player you're looking probably only at Cruyff and Zidane who compare to The Kaiser as well. We don't have those sorts of characters anymore.

 

[Tom Mix]

One of the greatest legends of the game. I think he was the first ever to have won the World Cup as a player (1974) and as a manager (1990).

Only Mario Zagallo achieved the same feat with his 3 World Cup titles (1958, 1962, 1970) and as a Brazil NT manager in 1994.

Coincidentally, both passed away in a space of one week or so.


My Dad also used to say with confidence that Beckenbauer was among the best in World Cup history along with Pele and Cruyff.

There will always be a level of nostalgia, but players of those generations and up to early noughties (before Roman's money), had more flair and elegance.

Back then football was more of an art, than an industry of what we see today

Zagalo did it first. He was Brazil's manager in 1970 not a player.

I never saw Zagalo as a player but I did see Beckenbauer. He was a fantastic player, classy in defence and dangerous coming forward. Very straight and fair too. The model of the noble opponent you both fear and respect but cannot hate.

We used to call him Franz Baking Powder. RIP Franz.

 

[albakos]

I thought I read that Zagalo was still a player in 1970, happy to stand corrected.

So he won the World Cup as a manager twice then ?

 

[Tom Mix]

I thought I read that Zagalo was still a player in 1970, happy to stand corrected.

So he won the World Cup as a manager twice then ?

He must have been 39 in 1970 - read somewhere he was 27 when Pele emerged in 1958 - although we thought he was an old man! Perhaps because his hair was greying?

And pretty sure his name was being spelt as Zagalo then though now it seems to be Zagallo.

 

[Sapient Hawk]

One of the greatest legends of the game. I think he was the first ever to have won the World Cup as a player (1974) and as a manager (1990).

Only Mario Zagallo achieved the same feat with his 3 World Cup titles (1958, 1962, 1970) and as a Brazil NT manager in 1994.

Coincidentally, both passed away in a space of one week or so.


My Dad also used to say with confidence that Beckenbauer was among the best in World Cup history along with Pele and Cruyff.

There will always be a level of nostalgia, but players of those generations and up to early noughties (before Roman's money), had more flair and elegance.

Back then football was more of an art, than an industry of what we see today

Not only was he one of the greatest, but certainly amongst the classiest as well. They don't make them like the Kaiser anymore.

 

[TornadoTed]

I thought I read that Zagalo was still a player in 1970, happy to stand corrected.

So he won the World Cup as a manager twice then ?

He was assistant manager in 94 I believe.

 

[Thrice]

Not only was he one of the greatest, but certainly amongst the classiest as well. They don't make them like the Kaiser anymore.

He had an aura. One of those people, when he speaks you listen.