Franz Anton Beckenbauer (, ; born 11 September 1945) is a German former professional
footballer
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and manager. In his playing career he was nicknamed ''Der Kaiser'' ("The Emperor") because of his elegant style, dominance and leadership on the field, and also as his first name "Franz" is reminiscent of the Austrian emperors. He is widely regarded to be one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
A versatile player who started out as a
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
, Beckenbauer made his name as a
central defender
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Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either ...
. He is often credited as having invented the role of the
modern sweeper (''libero'').
With success at club and international level, he is one of nine players to have won the
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament has ...
, the
UEFA Champions League
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and the
Ballon d'Or
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.
Twice named
European Footballer of the Year
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, Beckenbauer appeared 103 times for
West Germany
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and played in three
FIFA World Cup
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s and two
European Championships. He is one of three men, along with Brazil's
Mário Zagallo
Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo (; born 9 August 1931) is a Brazilian former professional football player, coordinator and manager, who played as a forward.
Zagallo holds the record for World Cup titles in general with four titles in total. He was ...
and France's
Didier Deschamps, to have won the World Cup as a player and as a manager; he lifted the
World Cup trophy as captain in 1974, and repeated the feat as a manager in 1990.
He was the first captain to lift the World Cup and European Championship at international level and the
European Cup at club level. He was named in the
World Team of the 20th Century
The World Team of the 20th Century was chosen in 1998 to comprise the best association football players of the 20th century CE. The team comprises an eleven-member side, with one goalkeeper, four defenders, three midfielders, and three forward ...
in 1998, the
FIFA World Cup Dream Team in 2002, the
Ballon d'Or Dream Team
The Ballon d'Or Dream Team is an all-time all-star team published by ''France Football'' on 14 December 2020 after conducting an internet poll of fans to select a football dream team starting from October 2020. The final team was selected by 140 ...
in 2020, and in 2004 was listed in the
FIFA 100 of the world's greatest living players.
At club level with
Bayern Munich, Beckenbauer won the
European Cup Winners' Cup in
1967 and three consecutive
European Cups from 1974 to 1976. The latter feat made him the first player to win three European Cups as captain of his club. He became team manager and later president of Bayern Munich. After two spells with the
New York Cosmos he was inducted into the U.S.
National Soccer Hall of Fame.
Beckenbauer led Germany's successful bid to host the
2006 FIFA World Cup
The 2006 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Germany 2006, was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which had won the right to host th ...
and chaired the
organizing committee. He worked as a
pundit for
Sky Germany, and for 34 years as a columnist for the tabloid ''
Bild'', both until 2016. In August 2016, it was announced Beckenbauer was being investigated for fraud and money laundering as part of the 2006 World Cup. The investigation was closed without a verdict in 2020 as the statute of limitations expired.
Early years
Franz Beckenbauer was born in the post-war ruins of
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...
, the second son of postal-worker Franz Beckenbauer, Sr. and his wife Antonie (née Hupfauf). He grew up in the working-class district of
Giesing
Giesing (formerly Kyesinga) was a Bavarian town founded in 790 (older than Munich).
The town was incorporated by the city of Munich in October 1854. Since then, it is a borough of the metropolis.
Giesing is located south-east of Munich and has a ...
and, despite his father's cynicism about the game, started playing football at the age of nine with the youth team of SC Munich '06 in 1954.
[Hesse-Lichtenberger, p. 205]
Originally a centre forward, he idolised
1954 FIFA World Cup
The 1954 FIFA World Cup was the fifth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament for senior men's national teams of the nations affiliated to FIFA. It was held in Switzerland from 16 June to 4 July. Switzer ...
winner
Fritz Walter and supported local side
1860 Munich
, commonly known as TSV 1860 München (; lettered as ) or 1860 Munich, is a sports club based in Munich. The club's football team currently plays in the 3. Liga, the third tier of German football.
1860 Munich was one of the founding members ...
, then the pre-eminent team in the city, despite their relegation from the top league, the ''Oberliga Süd,'' in the 1950s. ''"It was always my dream to play for them"'' he would later confirm.
That he joined the
Bayern Munich youth team in 1959, rather than that of his favourites 1860 Munich, was the result of a contentious Under-14 youth tournament in nearby
Neubiberg. Beckenbauer and his teammates were aware that their SC Munich '06 club lacked the finance to continue running its youth sides, and had determined to join 1860 Munich as a group upon the tournament's conclusion. However, fortune decreed that SC Munich and 1860 would meet in the final and a series of niggles during the match eventually resulted in a physical confrontation between Beckenbauer and the opposing centre-half. The ill-feeling this engendered had a strong effect upon Beckenbauer and his teammates, who decided to join Bayern's youth side rather than the team they had recently come to blows with.
[Hesse-Lichtenberger, pp. 204–6]
In 1963, at the age of 18, Beckenbauer was engulfed by controversy when it was revealed that his then girlfriend was pregnant and that he had no intention of marrying her; he was banned from the West German national youth team by the
DFB and only readmitted after the intervention of the side's coach
Dettmar Cramer.
[Hesse-Lichtenberger, p. 216]
Club career
Beckenbauer made his debut with Bayern in a
Bundesliga
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promotion play-off match on the left wing against
FC St. Pauli on 6 June 1964. In his first season in the
Regionalliga Süd ("Regional League South", then the second level in Germany), 1964–65, the team won the league and eventually promoted to the Bundesliga.
Bayern soon became a force in the new German league, winning the
German Cup
The DFB-Pokal ( is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It is consider ...
in 1966–67 and achieving European success in the
Cup Winners' Cup in 1967. Beckenbauer became team captain for the 1968–69 season and led his club to their first league title. He began experimenting with the
sweeper
Sweepers are small, tropical marine (occasionally brackish) perciform fish of the family Pempheridae. Found in the western Atlantic Ocean and Indo-Pacific region, the family contains about 26 species in two genera. One species (''Pempheris xanth ...
''(libero)'' role around this time, refining the role into a new form and becoming perhaps the greatest exponent of the attacking sweeper game.
During Beckenbauer's tenure at Bayern Munich, the club won three league championships in a row from 1972 to 1974 and also a hat-trick of
European Cup wins (1974–76) which earned the club the honour of
keeping the trophy permanently.
Since 1968 Beckenbauer, has been called ''Der Kaiser'' by fans and the media.
The following anecdote is told (even by Beckenbauer himself) to explain the origin: On the occasion of a friendly game of Bayern Munich in
Vienna
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, Austria, Beckenbauer posed for a photo session right beside a bust of the former Austrian emperor
Franz Joseph I
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. The media called him ''Fußball-Kaiser'' (football-emperor) afterwards, soon after he was just called ''Der Kaiser''. However, according to a report in the German newspaper ''Welt am Sonntag'', this explanation is untrue, though very popular. According to the report, Beckenbauer fouled his opposite number,
Reinhard Libuda
Reinhard "Stan" Libuda (10 October 1943 – 25 August 1996) was a German footballer playing on the right wing.
Career
Libuda was born in Wendlinghausen near Lemgo. His tremendous skill as a dribbler was a major factor in Borussia Dortmund's 1 ...
from
Schalke 04, in the cup final on 14 June 1969. Disregarding the fans' hooting, Beckenbauer took the ball into the opposite part of the field, where he balanced the ball in front of the upset fans for half a minute. Libuda was commonly called ''König von Westfalen'' (king of
Westphalia
Westphalia (; german: Westfalen ; nds, Westfalen ) is a region of northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has an area of and 7.9 million inhabitants.
The territory of the regio ...
), so the press looked for an even more exalted moniker and invented ''Der Kaiser''.
In 1977, Beckenbauer accepted a lucrative contract to play in the
North American Soccer League The North American Soccer League may refer to:
*North American Soccer League (1968–1984), a former Division I league
*North American Soccer League (2011–2017)
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with the
New York Cosmos. He played with the Cosmos for four seasons up to 1980, and the team won the
Soccer Bowl on three occasions (1977, 1978, 1980).
Beckenbauer retired after a two-year spell with
Hamburger SV in Germany (1980–82) with the win of the
Bundesliga
The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footb ...
title that year and one final season with the New York Cosmos in 1983. In his career, he appeared in 754 competitive club matches.
International career
Beckenbauer won 103
caps and scored 14 goals for West Germany.
He was a member of the World Cup squads that finished runners-up in 1966, third place in 1970, and champions in 1974, while also being named to the tournament all-star team in all three editions. He also won the
1972 European Football Championship and finished as runners-up in the
1976 edition. Beckenbauer's first game for the national team came on 26 September 1965.
1966 World Cup
Beckenbauer appeared in his first
World Cup in
1966, playing every match. In his first World Cup match, against
Switzerland
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, he scored twice in a 5–0 win.
West Germany won their group, and then beat
Uruguay 4–0 in quarter-finals, with Beckenbauer scoring the second goal in the 70th minute.
In the semi-finals, the Germans faced the
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nati ...
.
Helmut Haller opened the scoring, with Beckenbauer contributing the second of the match, his fourth goal of the tournament.
The Soviets scored a late goal but were unable to draw level, and West Germany advanced to the final against hosts
England
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. The English won
the final
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and the
Jules Rimet Trophy in extra time.
The Germans had fallen at the final hurdle, but Beckenbauer had a notable tournament, finishing tied for third on the list of top scorers—from a non-attacking position. The team returned to a heroes' welcome in their homeland.
1970 World Cup
West Germany won their first three matches before facing England in the second round in a rematch of the 1966 final. The English were ahead 2–0 in the second half, but a spectacular goal by Beckenbauer in the 69th minute helped the Germans recover and equalise before the end of normal time and win the match in extra time.
West Germany advanced to the semi-finals to face
Italy
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, in what would be known as the
Game of the Century. He dislocated his shoulder after being fouled, but he was not deterred from continuing in the match, as his side had already used their two permitted substitutions.
He stayed on the field carrying his dislocated arm in a sling. The result of this match was 4–3 (after extra time) in favour of the Italians. Germany defeated
Uruguay 1–0 for third place.
1972 European championship
Beckenbauer became captain of the national side in 1971. In
1972, West Germany won the
European Championship, beating the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
3–0 in the final.
1974 World Cup
The
1974 World Cup
The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the tenth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July. The tournament marked the first time that ...
was hosted by
West Germany
West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 ...
and Beckenbauer led his side to victory, including a hard-fought 2–1 win over the hotly favoured
Netherlands side featuring
Johan Cruyff
Hendrik Johannes Cruijff (, internationally known as Johan Cruyff; 25 April 1947 – 24 March 2016) was a Dutch professional football player and manager. As a player, he won the Ballon d'Or three times, in 1971, 1973 and 1974. Cruyff was a p ...
. Beckenbauer and fellow defenders man-marked Cruyff so well that the Dutch were never quite able to put their "
Total Football" into full use.
Beckenbauer became the first captain to lift the new
FIFA World Cup Trophy after Brazil had retained the
Jules Rimet Trophy in 1970.
This also gave West Germany the distinction of being the first European national team to hold both the European Championship and World Cup titles simultaneously (two other countries have done it since:
France
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in 2000, and
Spain
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, ...
in 2010).
1976 European Championship
In the
1976 competition, West Germany again reached the final, where they lost on penalties to
Czechoslovakia
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. Beckenbauer was named in the Team of the Tournament.
Beckenbauer retired from international football in 1977, at the age of 31, following his move to New York Cosmos.
Managerial career
On his return to Germany, Beckenbauer was appointed manager of the
West German national team to replace
Jupp Derwall on 12 September 1984. He took the team all the way to the final of the
1986 World Cup, where they lost to the
Diego Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona (; 30 October 196025 November 2020) was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, he was one of the two joint winners of the F ...
inspired
Argentina
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.
In 1990, before the
German reunification, Beckenbauer managed the last
German team without East German players in a
World Cup, winning the final 1–0, against Argentina, in a rematch of the previous World Cup final. Beckenbauer is one of three men (with
Mario Zagallo
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, and
Didier Deschamps) to have won the Cup as player and as manager, and he is the first man and one of only two (with Didier Deschamps) to have won the title as
team captain as well as manager.
Beckenbauer then moved into club management, and accepted a job with
Olympique de Marseille in 1990 but left the club within one year. Marseille eventually won the
1990–91 French championship and ended runner-up of the
1990–91 European Cup.
From 28 December 1993 until 30 June 1994, and then from 29 April 1996 until 30 June of the same year, he managed
Bayern Munich. His brief spells in charge saw him collect two further honours – the
Bundesliga
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title in 1994 and the
UEFA Cup in 1996.
In 1994, he took on the role of club president at Bayern, and much of the success in the following years has been credited to his astute management. Following the club's decision to change from an association to a limited company, he has been chairman of the advisory board since the beginning of 2002. He stepped down as president of Bayern in 2009, being succeeded by long-time general manager
Uli Hoeneß.
In 1998, he became vice-president of the
German Football Association
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.
At the end of the 1990s, Beckenbauer headed the successful bid by Germany to organize the
2006 FIFA World Cup
The 2006 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Germany 2006, was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which had won the right to host th ...
.
He chaired the organizational committee for the World Cup and was a commentator for the
Bild-Zeitung.
FIFA inquiries and ban
Beckenbauer (second from left) in 2007
In June 2014, Beckenbauer was banned by
FIFA Ethics Committee
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for 90 days from any football-related activity for allegedly refusing to cooperate with an inquiry into corruption dealing with the allocation of the
2018
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and
2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar. He protested the ban, as he had requested the questions that were put to him be in German and in writing. The ban was lifted after Beckenbauer agreed to participate in FIFA's inquiry. In February 2016, Beckenbauer was fined CHF 7,000 and warned by FIFA Ethics Committee for failing to cooperate with the inquiry in 2014.
In March 2016, the Ethics Committee opened formal proceedings against Beckenbauer regarding the awarding of the
2006 FIFA World Cup
The 2006 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Germany 2006, was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which had won the right to host th ...
to Germany.
In October 2019, Black Mirror Leaks published email correspondence of Russian member of Parliament, Sergey Kapkov, where Beckenbauer and his adviser, Fedor Radmann, were named as recipients of €3 million for their votes in favour of Russia as host of the 2018 World Cup. Both allegedly received an additional €1.5 million in success fees after the 2018 cup was allocated to Russia.
In 2021, FIFA closed its ethics inquiry against Beckenbauer as the statute of limitations expired.
Legacy
Beckenbauer is widely considered to be one of the greatest footballers in the history of the game.
He is the only defender in football history to win the Ballon d'Or twice. He is often credited as having invented the role of the modern sweeper or ''
libero'', a defensive player who intervenes proactively in the offensive game of his team.
Named
European Footballer of the Year
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twice, Beckenbauer was chosen on the
World Team of the 20th Century
The World Team of the 20th Century was chosen in 1998 to comprise the best association football players of the 20th century CE. The team comprises an eleven-member side, with one goalkeeper, four defenders, three midfielders, and three forward ...
in 1998, and the
FIFA World Cup Dream Team in 2002.
An icon in Germany, and one of only three men to have won the World Cup both as a player and as a manager, Beckenbauer was lauded by former German chancellor
Gerhard Schröder
Gerhard Fritz Kurt "Gerd" Schröder (; born 7 April 1944) is a German lobbyist and former politician, who served as the chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. From 1999 to 2004, he was also the Leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germa ...
for winning the World Cup as a player in 1974, winning as manager in 1990, and for playing a leading role in Germany's success of achieving host status of the
2006 World Cup.
Media
During his playing career, Beckenbauer's popularity was such that he was included as a character in
Monty Python's sketch "
The Philosophers' Football Match
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" as the sole genuine player and a "surprise inclusion" to the German team. During the match, between famous Greek and German philosophers, instead of actually playing football, the "players" walk in circles contemplating philosophy, while "asking questions", a popular phrase used by English football commentators, much to the confusion of Beckenbauer.
In a 2013 advertisement for South Korean company
Samsung
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, Beckenbauer appeared as the manager of a Galaxy XI of football players from around the globe, and hands the captain's armband to
Lionel Messi
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. Beckenbauer features in EA Sports'
''FIFA'' video game series; he was included in the ''
FIFA 15'' Ultimate Team Legends.
Personal life
Beckenbauer has been married three times and has five children, one of whom,
Stephan, was a professional footballer, who died after a long illness on 31 July 2015, at the age of 46. Stephan's son Luca is also a professional footballer, currently playing for
SV Wacker Burghausen in the
Regionalliga Bayern. After appearing in an advertisement for a big mobile phone company, Beckenbauer specifically requested the number 0176 / 666666 for his mobile phone. However, he soon was flooded with phone calls by men who thought it was a
phone sex number (in German, "6" translates to "sechs", sounding similar to the word sex).
In 2016 and 2017, Beckenbauer had
cardiac surgery twice. He also had an
artificial hip
Hip replacement is a surgical procedure in which the hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant, that is, a hip prosthesis. Hip replacement surgery can be performed as a total replacement or a hemi (half) replacement. Such joint replacement or ...
inserted in 2018.
Career statistics
Club
International
:''Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Beckenbauer goal.''
Managing statistics
Honours
Player
Bayern Munich
*
Regionalliga Süd:
1964–65
*
Bundesliga
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:
1968–69,
1971–72,
1972–73,
1973–74
*
DFB-Pokal:
1965–66,
1966–67,
1968–69,
1970–71
*
European Cup:
1973–74,
1974–75,
1975–76
*
European Cup Winners' Cup:
1966–67
*
Intercontinental Cup:
1976
Hamburger SV
*
Bundesliga
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:
1981–82
New York Cosmos
*
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*North American Soccer League (1968–1984), a former Division I league
*North American Soccer League (2011–2017)
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:
1977,
1978,
1980
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West Germany
*
FIFA World Cup
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:
1974
*
UEFA European Championship
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:
1972
Manager
West Germany
*
FIFA World Cup
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:
1990
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Marseille
*
Ligue 1:
1990–91
Bayern Munich
*
Bundesliga
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:
1993–94
*
UEFA Cup:
1995–96
Individual
Player
*
Ballon d'Or
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:
1972,
1976
*
Footballer of the Year (Germany): 1966, 1968, 1974, 1976
*''
kicker''
Bundesliga
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Team of the Season:
1965–66,
1966–67,
1967–68,
1968–69,
1969–70,
1970–71,
1971–72,
1972–73,
1973–74,
1974–75,
1975–76,
1976–77
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FIFA World Cup Best Young Player Award:
1966
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FIFA World Cup Bronze Boot:
1966
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FIFA World Cup All-Star Team:
1966,
1970,
1974
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FIFA XI: 1968
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FIFA World Cup Silver Ball:
1974
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NASL Most Valuable Player Award NASL or Nasl may refer to:
* Nasl, Iran (disambiguation)
* ''NASL Soccer'', a 1980 early sports videogame
* National Association for the Support of Long Term Care, a US national trade association
* Nessus Attack Scripting Language
* North American ...
:
1977
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FIFA Order of Merit: 1984
*
FIFA World Cup All-Time Team
The FIFA All-Time Team is a fictive all-time association football team published by FIFA in 1994. It is an eleven-member side divided as one goalkeeper, four defenders, three midfielders, and three forwards.
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See also
*FIFA 100
*Wor ...
: 1994
*
UEFA Euro Team of the Tournament:
1972,
1976
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World Team of the 20th Century
The World Team of the 20th Century was chosen in 1998 to comprise the best association football players of the 20th century CE. The team comprises an eleven-member side, with one goalkeeper, four defenders, three midfielders, and three forward ...
: 1998
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FIFA World Cup Dream Team: 2002
*
FIFA Centennial Player and Football Personality Award: 2004
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FIFA 100: 2004
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Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award: 2007
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IFFHS
The International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) is an organisation that chronicles the history and records of association football. It was founded in 1984 by Alfredo Pöge in Leipzig. The IFFHS was based in Abu Dhabi for so ...
Universal Genius of World Football: 2007
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Golden Foot: 2010, as
football legend
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Marca Leyenda
''Marca'' Leyenda (''Marca'' legend) is an award given by the Spanish sports newspaper '' Marca'' to the best sport professionals in history. Since its inception in 1997 over 80 people have received this award.
List of winners
References
{{Refl ...
: 2012
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FIFA Presidential Award
The FIFA Presidential Award was a FIFA association football award given annually at the FIFA World Player Gala. It was first awarded by the then President of FIFA Sepp Blatter in 2001, and has not been awarded since 2014 due to Blatter's suspensio ...
: 2012
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UEFA President's Award: 2012
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World Soccer Greatest XI of all time: 2013
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UEFA Euro All-time XI: 2016
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UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll (2004): second place
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World Soccer (magazine)
''World Soccer'' is an English-language football magazine, published by Kelsey Media. The magazine was established in 1960 and is the oldest continually published football magazine in the United Kingdom. It specialises in the international f ...
The greatest players of 20th century: fourth place
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IFFHS Best European Player 1956–1990
*IFFHS World Player of the Century: third place
*IFFHS European Player of the Century: second place
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IFFHS
The International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) is an organisation that chronicles the history and records of association football. It was founded in 1984 by Alfredo Pöge in Leipzig. The IFFHS was based in Abu Dhabi for so ...
Legends
*Bayern Munich All-time XI
*Member of
Germany's Sports Hall of Fame
*
Ballon d'Or Dream Team
The Ballon d'Or Dream Team is an all-time all-star team published by ''France Football'' on 14 December 2020 after conducting an internet poll of fans to select a football dream team starting from October 2020. The final team was selected by 140 ...
: 2020
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IFFHS All-time Men's Dream Team: 2021
Manager
*
European Coach of the Year—Sepp Herberger Award: 1990
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World Soccer Awards Manager of the Year: 1990
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World Soccer 29th Greatest Manager of All Time: 2013
Civil
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Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany: 1976
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Bavarian Order of Merit: 1982
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Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany: 1986
*Honorary Golden Coin of the City of Munich: 1995
*Honorary Doctor of the National Sports Academy: 2004
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Commanders' Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany: 2006
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Lower Saxon Merit 1st Class: 2008
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Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: 2009
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Honorary consul of the
Republic of Kosovo
Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a international recognition of Kosovo, partiall ...
: 2011
See also
*
List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps
In men's association football, a cap is traditionally awarded in international football to a player making an official match appearance for their national team. In total, over 600 players have played in 100 or more international matches. The r ...
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List of UEFA Cup winning managers
The UEFA Cup was a European association football competition contested from 1972 to 2009. In the 2009–10 season its name was changed to UEFA Europa League.
English manager Bill Nicholson led Tottenham Hotspur to victory in the inaugural final ...
References
Bibliography
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Literature
* Beckenbauer, Franz, Cramer, Dettmar: ''Nicht nur ein Spiel!''. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2006, .
* Körner, Torsten: ''Franz Beckenbauer – der freie Mann''. Scherz, Frankfurt 2005, .
* Kratzert, Armin: ''Beckenbauer taucht nicht auf''. Roman. Kirchheim Verlag, München 2012,
* Kummermehr, Petra (Hrsg.): ''Das Buch Franz. Botschaften eines Kaisers''. Diederichs, München 2011, .
External links
Franz Beckenbauer Foundation
Facts on Beckenbauer
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