Franz Beckenbauer really was one of those players who could talk with his feet, although there were some during his later life who felt his legacy would have been grander if he restricted himself to ...

First Mario Zagallo, then Franz Beckenbauer. Within a few days, football’s most distinguished club has been reduced to a lone, living member. Only Didier Deschamps is left of the select band who won ...

German football icon Franz Beckenbauer is struggling with ill-health and the fall-out from the World Cup 2006 hosting scandal, his brother Walter says. A new documentary on 1974 World Cup winner ...

The “libero” — taken from the Italian word for “free” and describing a player who had a covering role behind a defensive line — was not an entirely new concept to soccer by the late 1960s and early ...

Growing up in bombed-out Munich after the Second World War, a young Franz Beckenbauer spent hours and hours kicking a ball against a brick wall. “That wall was the most honest team-mate I could ever ...

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German soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer, who won a World Cup for the country as a player and a coach, has died, his family said on Monday. He was 78. Beckenbauer’s family told Germany’s dpa about his ...

The soccer world is paying their respects to Franz Beckenbauer, the two-time World Cup winner who died Sunday, aged 78. Beckenbauer was one of the most celebrated players of his era, both for his ...

Following the death of German football legend Franz Beckenbauer at the age of 78, tributes have been poured in. He left a unique impression on football as player, captain, and coach. Franz Beckenbauer ...

German football legend Franz Beckenbauer has died at the age of 78. The World Cup winner died on Sunday, his family have confirmed, as tributes from the world of football flooded in. Beckenbauer's ...

BERLIN (AP) — Franz Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup both as player and coach and became one of Germany’s most beloved personalities with his easygoing charm, has died. He was 78. Beckenbauer's ...