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A – Austria.
Since 1982, Beckenbauer has lived in Austria, where taxes are lower than in Germany.

B - Bayern.
The main club in the life of Franz Beckenbauer. From 1964 to 1977, Kaiser played 427 matches for Bayern, scoring 60 goals. Together with the club, he became the German champion four times, won the Cup four times, the European Cup three times, the Cup Winners' Cup and the Intercontinental Cup once each. In 1991, Beckenbauer returned to the club as vice-president, and from 1994 to 2009 he was club president. He is now the honorary president of Bayern.

B - Walter.
The captain of the German national team at the 1954 World Cup, Fritz Walter, was the idol of young Franz. When the famous “miracle in Bern” took place, Beckenbauer was eight years old and overjoyed.

G – golf.
Beckenbauer's second passion after football is golf. He is considered a very good amateur, since since 1982 he has devoted a lot of time to golf.

D – Dettmar Kramer.
Bayern coach, who largely influenced the fate of Franz. Now everyone perceives him as a model of behavior on the football field and beyond, and Beckenbauer’s youth was very stormy. In 1963, it turned out that the girlfriend of 18-year-old Franz was expecting a child from him, and he was not at all going to offer her his hand and heart. Morals were less free then, and Beckenbauer was about to be expelled from the team, but the intervention of Dettmar Kramer saved the future Kaiser.

F - wife.
Beckenbauer was married three times and fathered five children.

Z – “Golden Ball”.
Twice in his career he became the best football player in Europe - in 1972 and 1976. In 1972, the German national team won the European Championship, and in 1976, Bayern won the Champions Cup for the third time in a row.

And – aliens.
At the beginning of 2014, Beckenbauer stunned everyone with the statement that he was visited by aliens and offered to spend time with them Soccer game. Many decided that the pensioner had fallen into senile insanity, but, as it turned out, this was part of a Samsung advertising campaign. The Koreans assembled an Earth team, which actually played a “match” with an alien team, and Beckenbauer was entrusted with the post of head coach.

K - captain.
Beckenbauer has always been distinguished by excellent leadership qualities, so he was the captain of both Bayern and the German national team. IN national team he took over the armband from Uwe Seeler when he retired in 1970. Both Beckenbauer and Seeler received the title of honorary captain from the German Football Association. In addition to them, Fritz Walter, Lothar Matthäus and Philipp Lahm received this honor.

L – libero.
Beckenbauer is the greatest libero in football history and his interpretation of the position was truly revolutionary. Franz not only protected his partners from behind, but also constantly connected forward, which often disorientated his opponents. Since then, the attacking libero has become a signature feature of the German national team. In 1996, Matthias Sammer even won the Ballon d'Or for playing in Beckenbauer's style. Now in Germany they are joking that the team once again has a great libero - goalkeeper Manuel Neuer.

M - Munich.
The city where Franz Anton Beckenbauer was born on September 11, 1945. His father Franz Sr. worked at the post office and did not approve of his son's passion for football. The future great football player grew up in the working-class district of Giesing, and his childhood was spent in poverty. However, in post-war Germany almost everyone lived like this.

N – forward.
Libero is Franz's mature position, and he started playing in attack. At the 1966 World Cup, Beckenbauer played in this position and scored a goal in the semi-finals against Lev Yashin.

O - Olympiastadion.
Main stadium of the 1974 World Cup and home of Bayern since 1972. It was here that Beckenbauer lifted the World Cup over his head after a difficult victory over the Netherlands, which was considered the favorites of the match. Beckenbauer was one of the initiators of the construction of the new Allianz Arena, as he believed that the Olympiastadion was obsolete and no longer corresponded to the ambitions of Bayern. Since the club moved to new house, the matches are always sold out, which the Munich team could never achieve before.

P – chairman.
Beckenbauer was chairman of the organizing committee for the 2006 World Cup. Germany won the competition and held one of the best tournaments in the history of football.


R - Rome.
At the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, the German national team under the leadership of coach Beckenbauer became the world champion for the third time. While the players celebrated the victory, Beckenbauer paced the center of the field alone, and this shot went down in football history. Then Kaiser said that he just wanted to be alone, and the only place where no one was was the center of the field. This was Beckenbauer's last match as a Bundes coach.

S – Stefan.
One of the Kaiser's sons, Stefan Beckenbauer, followed in his father's footsteps and also became a professional football player. It is clear that everyone did nothing but compare him with his father, and every time the comparison was not in Stefan’s favor. Beckenbauer Jr. played 31 matches for Munich 1860 and 24 for Saarbrücken. He currently works as a scout for Bayern.

T – coach.
Beckenbauer said many times that he did not want to become a coach, but in 1984 he was finally persuaded to temporarily lead the national team, which found itself in a difficult situation. Franz didn’t even have a coaching license, so he was officially listed as the “chef of the team.” Things went smoothly, and in 1986 the team reached the World Cup final, and four years later won it. However, even before the final, Beckenbauer announced that he was resigning from his post. In 1991, he made Olympic Marseille the champion of France, but did not get along with the management and did not work as a coach again. However, he served as Bayern's head coach twice and even won the UEFA Cup in 1996.

U - Uli Stein.
The goalkeeper that Franz fielded from the 1986 World Cup. Uli has always had an obnoxious temperament, and in Mexico he openly insulted the coach, calling him a “soup clown.” The fact is that in his youth, Beckenbauer advertised Knorr products on television.


F – Federal Republic of Germany.
That was the name of the country for which he played.

X – Hoeness.
Uli Hoeness is a close friend of Franz Beckenbauer. Together they played for Bayern and the national team, and in 2009 Hoeness succeeded Franz as club president. By the way, it was Uli who initiated Beckenbauer’s return to Bayern in 1991. Together they cured their third friend Gerd Müller from alcoholism, who was literally pulled out from under the table in the USA.

H – World Championship.
Franz is the only person in the history of football who became a world champion both as a captain and as a coach.

Ш - six.
The number under which he played throughout his career.

I am Yankees Stadium.
The stadium of the New York Yankees baseball team, which Beckenbauer often visited while playing for the Cosmos.

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FRANZ BECKENBAUER

(Born 1945)

He played in the clubs “Bavaria” and “Hamburg” (Germany), “Cosmos” (USA). In 1965-1976 he played 103 matches for the national team of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Franz Beckenbauer became the first in the history of football to win the title of world champion, being first a player and then a coach of the German national team. And in general, football luck always accompanied him in everything, and he achieved everything he set his mind to.

He was the first German player to play more than one hundred matches for the national team (his achievement was later surpassed by Lothar Matthäus, who played 153 games and thereby set a world record). Twice, in 1972 and 1976, Beckenbauer received the Golden Ball as best footballer Europe. With his home team Bayern, he won the European Cup three times in a row from 1974 to 1976. In the final matches, one after another, the Spanish Atlético, the English Leeds United, and the French Saint-Etienne were defeated.

In addition, in 1976, Bayern won the Intercontinental Cup, beating the Brazilian Cruzeiro. And even earlier, in 1967, Bayern won the Cup Winners' Cup, defeating the Scottish Glasgow Rangers in the final match.

In his homeland, Beckenbauer was a five-time national champion. Bayern won the German Cup four times.

However, luck in football only comes to those who deserve it. And Beckenbauer's football career is an example of a continuous rise to the heights of excellence and the immense love of millions of football fans who admired his reliable, intelligent and elegant play. In addition, he became to a large extent an innovator in football, finding a completely special role for himself. During the years during which his football career continued, no one else performed the same playing functions as Franz Beckenbauer.

He is a Munich native by birth, and it is not surprising that his fate was connected with Bayern. But ten-year-old Franz took his first steps in mastering the basics of football in the children's team in less than famous club"Munich 1906". Only in 1959 did he move to the youth section of Bayern. Soon he was noticed by the coaches of the German youth team.

However, with truly German thoroughness and foresight, dreaming of professional career football player, just in case Franz took care of another profession. In 1962, seventeen-year-old Franz completed an internship at an insurance company and could well have become an insurance agent. But just at this time, Bayern offered him a contract, and Franz, leaving the insurance company, focused entirely on training. The first football peak, albeit still very low, was conquered.

Beckenbauer turned out to be a versatile player and could do everything on the field, including playing on the flanks. In the first match for the main team of Bayern against the St. Pauli club, the nineteen-year-old footballer entered the field as a left winger. The debut was successful - Bayern won 4:0, although left winger Beckenbauer left the field without a goal.

In 1965, another debut took place - Beckenbauer, along with the West German team, went to Sweden to play in the decisive match qualifying tournament world championship. In that game, having defeated the hosts 2:1, the German national team won the right to next year go to England for the 1966 championship. And Beckenbauer secured his place in the main team of the national team for more than a decade.

Even then, together with the Bayern coach and then the national team coach Helmut Schön, Beckenbauer was feeling out his new, unusual role for that time. This was the place of a free defender, a “libero,” but his role was not only limited to “cleaning up” the mistakes of his defensive partners. Beckenbauer's versatility, yet athleticism combined with excellent technique, allowed him to take on the unexpected role of the organizer of the entire team game and determine the course of the match.

Even then they began to compare it with a computer that instantly calculates all possible combinations. He found holes in the enemy’s defenses even before they formed, and launched an attack in that direction.

Later he received his famous nickname - “Kaiser Franz”. He truly was the lord and master on the field, the most important person of his team. We admired not only his unexpected decisions, but also the genuine artistry of the game. He moved smoothly, as if gliding, and as if not paying any attention to his opponents. And at the same time, he not only created, but also skillfully destroyed the offensive plans of the enemy, and did not disdain, if necessary, the personal guardianship of the dangerous attacker of the opposing team.

It must be said that his unusual role initially caused a lot of controversy and criticism. Some experts admired it, arguing that there is nothing simpler than Beckenbauer’s football, and nothing more difficult for rivals and imitators. Others believed that a football player of outstanding creative talent was only ruining himself by performing defensive functions. Especially similar disputes flared up after the famous final of the English championship, where the German national team fought with dignity against the English team, but still lost 2:4. Coach Helmut Schön was accused of keeping Beckenbauer in the wrong place.

But Kaiser Franz continued to play the way he played, only even better. His role in both Bayern and the West German national team could seem surprising only because he was ahead of his time. But all further successes of both teams were largely determined by the role of “Kaiser” Beckenbauer.

By the way, he never missed an opportunity to score a goal himself. In the quarterfinal match of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, the German team took revenge from the British for their previous defeat in the final, snatching victory already in Extra time- 3:2. The English, however, initially led 2:0, but it was Beckenbauer who scored the first return goal.

In 1972, the German national team became the European champion, winning the USSR national team in the final - 3:0. And in 1974, the captain of the German national team, Franz Beckenbauer, after the final match with the Dutch, won with a score of 2:1, raised the FIFA Gold Cup over his head. This is how he became a world champion as a player.

Two years after this triumph, Beckenbauer played his last, 103rd match for the national team. The time has come to say goodbye to our native Bayern. Like many others famous football players those years, Kaiser Franz decided to complete his football career in the United States of America, where interest in football was just then being revived. The American clubs that were being created were then real constellations of great names. Naturally, they attracted many spectators to the stadiums. In the New York club “Cosmos”, which Beckenbauer chose, Pele himself, who had already passed his prime football age, had a chance to play.

Beckenbauer spent four seasons in Cosmos and returned to Germany. In 1984, exactly ten years after he became world champion, the West German team failed at the European Championship. The then coach Jupp Derval resigned, and Franz Beckenbauer was offered to lead the team. True, “Kaiser Franz” did not have a coaching license, and therefore he was formally listed as the team’s technical manager. However, it was he who determined both the selection of players and the tactics of the game. Thus Beckenbauer began the path to yet another of his great achievements.

In the 1986 World Championships, held in Mexico, the Kaiser Franz team reached the finals. She was opposed by the Argentine national team with Maradona playing superbly. True, in the quarterfinal match with England, Maradona scored one of his two goals with his hand - this was that famous textbook episode with the “hand of God”. In the final, Argentina was successful - 3:2.

But at the next World Cup in Italy, Beckenbauer again led his team to the final, and again they were opposed by the Argentines. This time the German national team celebrated the victory - 1:0. This is how Franz Beckenbauer became a world champion as a coach.

Having achieved the highest success, he left the post of national team coach and returned to his native Bayern. Since 1994 he has been president of the Munich club. He headed the organizing committee of the 2006 World Championships, held in Germany.

International Federation football history and statistics (IFFHS) included Franz Beckenbauer in the top ten best field players of the 20th century at number three, after Pele and Johan Cruyff.

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Franz Beckenbauer / Franz Beckenbauer (Franz Anton Beckenbauer / Franz Anton Beckenbauer)

Defender, coach.

functionary

The best German football player of the twentieth century. 3rd player in the history of world football. Football legend. The man who demonstrated for the first time how a libero should play. World champion as a player and coach. The only person in the history of world football who took first, second and third place at the World Cup as a player, first and three times as a coach. Chief organizer of the 2006 World Championship.

2nd European football player in the 20th century. (according to IFFHS)

The best German football player of the 20th century

COACHING ACHIEVEMENTS:

Members of the team:

1990 World Champion
Vice world champion 1986
Semi-finalist of the 1988 European Championship

Bayern Munich, Germany:

Winner of the 1996 UEFA Cup

German champion 1994

Marseille, France:

European Cup finalist 1991

ONLY NUMBERS:

Played for the national team 103 match, scored 14 heads

First match 09/26/1965 with Sweden 2:1
Last match 02/23/1977 with France 0:1

SEASON CLUB MATCHES GOALS
1964/65 Bayern (Munich, Germany) (D-2) 0
1965/66 Bayern (Munich, Germany) 33 4
1966/67 Bayern (Munich, Germany) 33 0
1967/68 Bayern (Munich, Germany) 28 4
1968/69 Bayern (Munich, Germany) 33 2
1969/70 Bayern (Munich, Germany) 34 6
1970/71 Bayern (Munich, Germany) 33 3
1971/72 Bayern (Munich, Germany) 34 6
1972/73 Bayern (Munich, Germany) 34 6
1973/74 Bayern (Munich, Germany) 34 4
1974/75 Bayern (Munich, Germany) 33 1
1975/76 Bayern (Munich, Germany) 34 5
1976/77 Bayern (Munich, Germany) 33 3
1977 "Cosmos" (New York, USA) 21 5
1978 "Cosmos" (New York, USA) 33 10
1979 "Cosmos" (New York, USA) 18 1
1980 "Cosmos" (New York, USA) 33 5
1980/81 "Hamburg, Germany) 18 0
1981/82 "Hamburg, Germany) 10 0
1983 "Cosmos" (New York, USA) 27 2
TOTAL in D-1 555 67

In the German Cup: 66 matches, 5 goals.

In Eurocups: 82 matches, 6 goals.

PERIOD . JOB TITLE
1984 - 1990 Team Germany Main coach
1990 - 1991 Marseille, France coach and sports director
1994, 1996 Bayern, Munich, Germany trainer
1994-2002 Bayern, Munich, Germany the president
1998-… German Football Association vice president
2002-… Bayern, Munich, Germany President and Head of the Supervisory Board
2002-2006 Organizing Committee for preparation and holding
world cup
chairman

ADDITIONALLY:

The only person in the history of world football who took first, second and third place at the World Cup as a player, first and three times as a coach.
(the maximum that others achieved was 6 players, all sets of awards as players, Carlos Alberto - world champion as a player and as a coach)

Franz Beckenbauer became the first in the history of football to win the title of world champion, being first a player and then a coach of the German national team. And in general, football luck always accompanied him in everything, and he achieved everything he set his mind to.

He was the first German player to play more than one hundred matches for the national team (his achievement was later surpassed by Lothar Matthäus, who played 153 games and thereby set a world record). Twice, in 1972 and 1976, Beckenbauer received the Golden Ball as the best footballer in Europe. Together with his native Bayern, from 1974 to 1976, he won the European Cup three times in a row. In the final matches, one after another, the Spanish Atlético, the English Leeds United, and the French Saint-Etienne were defeated.

In addition, in 1976, Bayern also won the Intercontinental Cup, beating the Brazilian Cruzeiro. And even earlier, in 1967, Bayern won the Cup Winners' Cup, defeating the Scottish Glasgow Rangers in the final match.

In his homeland, Beckenbauer was a five-time national champion. Bayern have won the German Cup four times.

However, luck in football only comes to those who deserve it. And Beckenbauer's football career is an example of a continuous rise to the heights of excellence and the immense love of millions of football fans who admired his reliable, intelligent and elegant play. In addition, he became to a large extent an innovator in football, finding a completely special role for himself. During the years during which his football career continued, no one else performed the same playing functions as Franz Beckenbauer.

He is a Munich native by birth, and it is not surprising that his fate was connected with Bayern. But ten-year-old Franz took his first steps in mastering the basics of football in the children's team of the lesser-known Munich 1906 club. Only in 1959 did he move to the youth section of Bayern. Soon he was noticed by the coaches of the German youth team.

However, with true German thoroughness and foresight, dreaming of a professional career as a football player, Franz took care of another profession, just in case. In 1962, 17-year-old Franz completed an internship at an insurance company and could well have become an insurance agent. But just at this time, Bayern offered him a contract, and Franz, leaving the insurance company, focused entirely on training. The first football peak, albeit still very low, was conquered.

Beckenbauer turned out to be a versatile player and could do everything on the field, including playing on the flanks. In the first match for the main team of Bayern against the St. Pauli club, the 19-year-old footballer entered the field as a left winger. The debut was successful - Bayern won 4:0, although left winger Beckenbauer left the field without a goal.

In 1965, another debut took place - Beckenbauer, together with the West German team, went to Sweden to play in the decisive match of the World Championship qualifying tournament. In that game, having defeated the hosts 2:1, the West German team won the right to go to England for the 1966 championship the following year. And Beckenbauer secured his place in the main team of the national team for more than a decade.

Even then, together with the coach of Bayern, and then the coach of the national team, Helmut Schön, Beckenbauer was groping for his new, unusual role for that time. This was the place of a free defender, a “libero,” but his role was not only limited to “cleaning up” the mistakes of his defensive partners. Beckenbauer's versatility, and at the same time athleticism combined with excellent technique, allowed him to take on the unexpected role of organizing the entire team game and determining the course of the match.

Even then they began to compare it with a computer that instantly calculates all possible combinations. He found holes in the enemy’s defenses even before they formed, and launched an attack in that direction.

Later he received his famous nickname - “Kaiser Franz”. He truly was the lord and master on the field, the most important person of his team. We admired not only his unexpected decisions, but also the genuine artistry of the game. He moved smoothly, as if gliding, and as if not paying any attention to his opponents. And at the same time, he not only created, but also skillfully destroyed the offensive plans of the enemy, and did not disdain, if necessary, the personal guardianship of the dangerous attacker of the opposing team.

It must be said that his unusual role initially caused a lot of controversy and criticism. Some experts admired it, arguing that there is nothing simpler than Beckenbauer’s football, and nothing more difficult for rivals and imitators. Others believed that a football player of outstanding creative talent was only ruining himself by performing defensive functions. Especially similar disputes flared up after the famous final of the English championship, where the German national team fought with dignity against the English team, but still lost 2:4. Coach Helmut Schön was accused of keeping Beckenbauer in the wrong place.

But “Kaiser Franz” continued to play as he played, only even better. His role in both Bayern and the West German national team could seem surprising only because he was ahead of his time. But all further successes of both teams were largely determined by the role of “Kaiser” Beckenbauer.

By the way, he never missed an opportunity to score a goal himself. In the quarterfinal match of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, the German team took revenge from the British for their previous defeat in the final, snatching victory in extra time - 3:2. The English, however, initially led 2:0, but it was Beckenbauer who scored the first return goal.

Franz Anton BECKENBAUER
Was born: 11 September 1945, Munich
Role: libero
Nickname: Kaiser Franz
Played for the following clubs:

  • Bayern (1959-77)
  • "Space" (1977-80)
  • "Hamburg" (1980-82)
  • "Space" (1983)
Trained:
  • Germany national team (1984-90)
  • Bayern (1994-96)

In 1972, the German national team became the European champion, winning the USSR national team in the final - 3:0. And in 1974, the captain of the German national team, Franz Beckenbauer, after the final match with the Dutch, won with a score of 2:1, raised the FIFA Gold Cup over his head. This is how he became a world champion as a player.

Two years after this triumph, Beckenbauer played his last, 103rd match for the national team. The time has come to say goodbye to our native Bayern. Like many other famous football players of those years, “Kaiser Franz” decided to end his football career in the United States of America, where interest in football was just then being revived. The American clubs that were being created were then real constellations of great names. Naturally, they attracted many spectators to the stadiums. In the New York club “Cosmos”, which Beckenbauer chose, Pele himself, who had already passed his prime football age, had a chance to play.

Beckenbauer spent four seasons in Cosmos and returned to Germany. In 1984, exactly ten years after he became world champion, the West German team failed at the European Championship. The then coach Jupp Derval resigned, and Franz Beckenbauer was offered to lead the team. True, “Kaiser Franz” did not have a coaching license, and therefore he was formally listed as the team’s technical manager. However, it was he who determined both the selection of players and the tactics of the game. Thus Beckenbauer began the path to yet another of his great achievements.

In the 1986 World Championships, held in Mexico, the Kaiser Franz team reached the finals. She was opposed by the Argentine national team with Maradona playing superbly. In the final, Argentina was successful - 3:2.

But at the next World Cup in Italy, Beckenbauer again led his team to the final, and again they were opposed by the Argentines. This time the German national team celebrated the victory - 1:0. This is how Franz Beckenbauer became a world champion as a coach.

Having achieved the highest success, he left the post of national team coach and returned to his native Bayern. Since 1994 he has been president of the Munich club. He headed the organizing committee of the 2006 World Championships, held in Germany.

The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) included Franz Beckenbauer in the top ten best field players of the 20th century at number three, following Pele and Johan Cruyff.

Player achievements:

World Champion: 1976

European Champion: 1972

German champion: 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1982

German Cup winner: 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971

European Cup winner: 1974, 1975, 1976

Cup Winners' Cup Winner: 1967

Intercontinental Cup winner: 1976

Included in the FIFA 100 list

Coach's achievements:

World Champion: 1990

German Champion: 1994

UEFA Cup winner: 1996

The site uses chapters from Vladimir Malov’s book “100 Great Football Players”. You can read about all the heroes of the book in the latest edition of “100 Great Football Players”, published by “”, 2010