Franz Anton Beckenbauer is a player of German Football born the September 11th 1945 with Munich. He played station of Libero except at the beginning of his career where he was Milieu (1.81m, 75kg).

He is regarded as the largest German player and is regularly quoted among the largest players of Football of all times in competition with Brazilian the Pelé, Argentinian the Diego Maradona and Alfredo Di Stefano, the Netherlander Johan Cruyff or the French Zinédine Zidane and Michel Platini.

Its elegance on the ground, its technical qualities and its influence on its fellow-members and the play were worth to him the nickname of Kaiser (the emperor).

After its career of player who is completed in 1983, he becomes a trainer whose greatest fact of glory is to have gained the World cup in 1990.

Biography

The player

Beginnings

Wire of a Bavarian post-office employee, Franz Beckenbauer begins with the club from the SC 1906 Munich. Exceptionally gifted attacker, it dreams to integrate TSV Munich 1860 which is at the time, the large club of the Bavarian city. The destiny will decide some differently. At the time of a tournament of young people, it is struck by a player of the section of the young people of TSV Munich 1860. Disgusted, Franz will throw her reserved on the Bayern Munich, at the time much less in sight.

Into 13 years, it thus integrates the section hope of the Bayern Munich, a club to which there will remain faithful during most of its career. In a certain manner, the rise of the Beckenbauer young person will follow that of the Bavarian club. This one will know in the years to come an exceptional progression under the impulse from some of the largest German players like Gerd Müller or Sepp Maier.

June 6th 1964, it begins in the team first from Bayern Munich, against the FC St Pauli , as a left winger. Quickly, it is distinguished within its manpower. It marks its first and its second goal at the time of its third match and finishes the season by registering 16 goals in 31 meetings. Its team finishes southern regional division at the head, and reaches in Bundesliga 1.

Its fame is such as it is selected with the national team whereas it disputed only 3 matches of Liga. September 26th, 1965, at 20 years, it disputes against Sweden a match of qualification for the World cup 1966. It evolves/moves then at the station of side back.

First world cup

The Football world cup 1966 will give the opportunity to him to make the display of its talent to the international level. In spite of the defeat finally against the England, it appears as the best player of the tournament whereas it is not even 21 years old. It disputes 6 matches at the station of medium ground and registers 4 goals (including 2 against the Suisse).

It gains also its first title in 1966: it is about the Coupe of Germany. It will be the first of long series. During the remainder of her career of player, Franz will gain all the titles which can exist, posting one of the most complete prize lists of football. In 1967, it gains its first European title: the Cut of the towns of fair, ancestor of the UEFA Cup.

It is from 1968 that Franz Beckenbauer starts to play station of libéro in club. Admittedly, he is not the inventor of the station but he especially contributed to give him another dimension. Before the Kaiser , the libéro was the ultimate defender of a team, a role generally reserved for the rough players. Franz Beckenbauer will give him her noble letters. With him, the libéro becomes the first organizer of the attack whose position moved back on the ground allows a better vision of the play. This strategic position free from any marking what enables him to join the attack.

The Seventies

In 1970, it disputes its second world cup with the Mexico. With its fellow-members of Bayern, Gerd Müller and Sepp Maier, he is avenged the defeat for 1966 by eliminating the England in quarterfinal. The goal which it registers at the time of this match will not be its more important fact of glory of the tournament. In half finale against the Italy, it marks the spirits while playing with the arm in scarf, the broken clavicle, following a shock. It will not be truly about an act d'" héroïsme" as he will declare later. In fact, the team of Germany having operated her two changes, could not replace it. It had thus been determined to remain on the ground. In spite of that, Germany will lose this semi-final which is regarded still at present as one of the greatest football games of all times.

The Seventies will be for him the confirmation of its talent and the apogee of its footballistic career. They will be also the theater of one of greatest confrontations between two of the largest footballers of all times: Franz Beckenbauer, therefore, and Dutch Johan Cruijff.

The two players have the same course and the same similarities. Both are exceptional players, who organize the play and enjoy a certain freedom on the ground. They are also the leaders of a generation of excellent players gathered within two clubs practitioner each one an innovative play: the Bayern Munich and the Ajax Amsterdam. If the Dutch club with beginning of the year 70, is an ogre raflant all the titles, it is Bayern which will replace it as from 1974. The two clubs will succeed in gaining each one three Coupe of the clubs European champions of sharp (1971,1972,1973 for Ajax; 1974,1975,1976 for Bayern).

Beckenbauer and Cruyff will clash only twice on a football field. The first time in 1973 at the time of a quarterfinal outward journey of cut of Europe of the champions where Ajax will humiliate Bayern Munich 4 - 0. The second time at the time of the finale of the Football world cup gained this time by Beckenbauer in 1974.

The World cup 1974

The World cup 1974 remains the greatest victory of the Kaiser . Organized in Germany, it is judicious to make it possible the Mannschaft to gain the trophy after twenty years of food shortage. The team is at the time with the top of her talent. The selector Helmut Schön finally let Beckenbauer play station of libéro, after the retirement of Willi Schulz in 1970 and the capitanat to him selection entrusted. The Mannschaft also gained in a brilliant way the Coupe of Europe of the nations 1972. However, at the beginning of the competition, the team makes pale figure and essuie even a historical defeat against their modest compatriots of GDR. In slides, the Mannschaft is undermined by the tensions between the players, formant of the clans within manpower. There are also tensions with the federation in connection with the premiums of match.

Beckenbauer will show in the middle of this chaos its qualities of born leader and its authority which will precede its future career of selector and president of club. It takes again the reindeers of the team, draws aside certain frameworks like Günter Netzer and by its initiatives replaces the selector Helmut Schön which loses of its authority. June 7th, 1974, the Mannschaft of Beckenbauer dominates the Netherlands de Cruyff however given largely favorite. Beckenbauer was not the player more the brilliance of the competition, but its influence in the team and her leadership were essential with the final victory.

End of a career

After the defeat finally of the Cut of Europe in 1976, the Kaiser decides finally in 1977, with 31 years and 103 selections to put a term at its international career. It disputes its last international match on February 23rd, 1977 against the France. The same year, it leaves the Bayern Munich to join the American team of the New York Cosmos. The German player, separated titles, does not try the American challenge to inflate his prize list (it gains three all the same Soccer Bowl into 1977,1978 and 1980) but rather his bank account. The American team makes bridges of gold to the stars of football. Beckenbauer will play besides with Pelé.

In 1980, it returns in Germany in the club of the Hamburg SV and gains a last championship in 1982. He will play a last season with Cosmos into 1983 before definitively withdrawing himself.

The selector

in national team

In 1984, Franz Beckenbauer is named trainer-selector of the team of FRG. It will carry out Mannschaft twice finally World cup, losing in 1986 and carrying it in 1990 each time against the Argentine of Diego Maradona. It is to be announced that the team of Germany of 1990 was the last who did not include/understand players of GDR.

It is with Mario Zagallo one of the two only ones to have gained the World cup as a player and as a trainer.

in club

Bernard Tapie engages it in September 1990 as trainer of the Olympique of Marseilles. It quickly leaves the club in 1991, replaced by Raymond Goethals.

It engages as trainer in Bayern Munich in December 1993, and gains the Championship of Germany in 1994. In April 1996, it takes again the reindeers of the Bavarian club and gains the UEFA Cup in June of the same year.

Other functions

Since 1994, he is president of the Bayern Munich and since 2002, president of the board of trustees of the Bavarian club. Its qualities of manager, his influence are at the origin of the periods records of Bayern Munich, concretized by the championships of Germany (5 since 2000) or the victory in Ligue of the Champions in 2001.

Franz Beckenbauer was also with the head of the Steering Committee of the World cup 2006 and is regularly consulting for the Bild. It aspired to during a time the presidency of UEFA and was presented like the rival of Michel Platini to this station.

The legend

Beckenbauer left the image of a complete player, at the same time talented technically and intelligent tactiquement. On the ground, it released by its control of ball, a certain elegance which with the eyes of some of its adversaries passed for arrogance. Although he was never a large striker, its incidence on the offensive play of its team was real. It had an excellent vision of the play, and distributed very precise master keys. It was the player who touched the most balls during a match (from 100 to 120 balloons per match on average). Beckenbauer was also the specialist in " the outside of the pied" : top spin master keys distilled with the millimetre.

Its reconversion at the station of libéro at the end of the Sixties was however not dictated at the beginning by a tactical will. If Franz Beckenbauer were a player technically very gifted, it on the other hand was limited much more in endurance. It appeared quickly at the beginning of its career which the station of medium ground appeared too much exhausting for the Franz young person, with the rather low pulmonary capacity. If Helmut Schön waited until 1971 to offer to him the station of libéro in selection, whereas it evolved/moved at this station in club, it is because it did not want to draw aside the old defender Willi Schulz. Even if Beckenbauer had a rather offensive role for a defender, that of did not prevent from being very effective in defense. By its vision of the play and its freedom on the ground, it locked the breaches behind its defense. It directed also its fellow-members of the lines back with much of authority.

The nickname " der Kaiser" he was allotted as from 1968. Beckenbauer told that the origin of this nickname is related to a photo catch by journalists at the time of a friendly match with Vienna in Austria. On the place where proceeded the photo session, there was a bust of the emperor François Joseph I (in German Kaiser Franz Joseph I ) at side of which Beckenbauer took the pause. The newspapers published the photograph with the title Fußball Kaiser (the emperor of football). Will have of the footballer like his first name, Franz popularized the nickname then.

Among the strong moments of his career, one will retain in particular:

• the world cup of 1966 disputed in England, whereas it was only 20 years old. It was one of the best players of this tournament.
• the semi-final of world cup in Mexico in 1970 against Italy, where it finishes the match with an arm in scarf.
• the final of the world cup 1974 gained against the Netherlands of Johan Cruyff.

Quotations

• “If it founded a party 15 days before the national elections, he would become chancellor. ” (Rudi Assauer on Franz Beckenbauer)

Career

• 1954 - 1958: SC 06 Munich Germany
• 1958 - 1977: Germany
• 1977 - 1980: The United States
• 1980 - 1982: Germany
• 1983: The United States

Prize list

As a player

• 1966 : Winner of the Cut of FRG

• 1967: Winner of the Cut of FRG
• 1967: Winner of the Cut of Europe of the winners of cuts
• 1969: Winner of the Cut of FRG
• 1969: Champion of FRG
• 1971: Winner of the Cut of FRG
• 1972: Champion of FRG
• 1972: Winner of the Championship of Europe of the nations
• 1973: Champion of FRG
• 1974: Champion of FRG
• 1974: Winner of the Cut of Europe of the clubs champions
• 1974: Winner of the World cup, with the selection of FRG
• 1975: Winner of the Cut of Europe of the clubs champions
• 1976: Winner of the Cut of Europe of the clubs champions
• 1976: Winner of the Intercontinental Cut
• 1977: Champion of the United States
• 1978: Champion of the United States
• 1980: Champion of the United States
• 1982: Champion of FRG
• In national team: 14 goals in 103 selections, including 50 as a captain.
• First selection the September 26th 1965 against Sweden (2-1).
• Dernière selection on February 23rd, 1977 against France (0-1)
• equips FIFA with It: 1 selection in 1968
• In team of Europe: 1 selection in 1982 (vis-a-vis team FIFA)

As a trainer

• 1986 : Finalist of the Football world cup

• 1986: coach of team FIFA
• 1990: Winner of the Football world cup
• 1994: Champion of Germany
• 1996: Winner of the UEFA Cup with Bayern of Munich against Bordeaux
• 1990: Coach of Olympic of Marseilles where it arrives in semi-final of the LDC

Personal distinctions

• 1972, 1976: Balloon of gold

• Third better player of the century IFFHS
• Better German player of the century IFFHS
• world Trainer of the year to the World Soccer Awards : 1990
• Elected second better European player fifty last years within the framework of the survey carried out for the Jubilee of the UEFA in 2004.

See too

External bond

• Official site

Simple: Franz Beckenbauer