Beckenbauer became team captain for the 1968–69 season and led his club to their first league title. 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.īayern soon became a force in the new German league, winning the German Cup in 1966–67 and achieving European success in the Cup Winners' Cup in 1967. Club career īeckenbauer (left) after Bayern Munich's Cup Winners' Cup triumph in 1967īeckenbauer made his debut with Bayern in a Bundesliga promotion play-off match on the left wing against FC St. 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. 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.
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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. 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. 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. "It was always my dream to play for them" he would later confirm. Originally a centre forward, he idolised 1954 FIFA World Cup winner Fritz Walter and supported local side 1860 Munich, then the pre-eminent team in the city, despite their relegation from the top league, the Oberliga Süd, in the 1950s. He grew up in the working-class district of Giesing 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. įranz Beckenbauer was born in the post-war ruins of Munich, the second son of postal-worker Franz Beckenbauer, Sr. The investigation was closed without a verdict in 2020 as the statute of limitations expired. In August 2016, it was announced Beckenbauer was being investigated for fraud and money laundering as part of the 2006 World Cup. He worked as a pundit for Sky Germany, and for 34 years as a columnist for the tabloid Bild, both until 2016. National Soccer Hall of Fame.īeckenbauer led Germany's successful bid to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup and chaired the organizing committee. After two spells with the New York Cosmos he was inducted into the U.S. He became team manager and later president of Bayern Munich. The latter feat made him the first player to win three European Cups as captain of his club. Īt club level with Bayern Munich, Beckenbauer won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1967 and three consecutive European Cups from 1974 to 1976. He was named in the World Team of the 20th Century in 1998, the FIFA World Cup Dream Team in 2002, the Ballon d'Or Dream Team in 2020, and in 2004 was listed in the FIFA 100 of the world's greatest living players. He was the first captain to lift the World Cup and European Championship at international level and the European Cup at club level. He is one of three men, along with Brazil's Mário Zagallo 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. Twice named European Footballer of the Year, Beckenbauer appeared 103 times for West Germany and played in three FIFA World Cups and two European Championships. He is often credited as having invented the role of the modern sweeper ( libero). A versatile player who started out as a midfielder, Beckenbauer made his name as a central defender. He is widely regarded to be one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. 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.
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