RussellEbertHandball
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Vale The Kaiser.
Captained, then Coached a World Cup victory and was the Chief administrator of the 2006 WC. A rare record, maybe never to be matched . Then there was his on field performance. Plenty of domestic honours to go with his international ones. He then joined Pele at New York Cosmos in 1977.
1974 was the first year I followed soccer. There was no bigger name than Franz Beckenbauer that year.
The game has lost some giants the last 18 months or so.
Edit forgot to mention this. Franz voted for us to host the WC when the double 2018 / 2022 rights vote took place at the same time in 2010.
Captained, then Coached a World Cup victory and was the Chief administrator of the 2006 WC. A rare record, maybe never to be matched . Then there was his on field performance. Plenty of domestic honours to go with his international ones. He then joined Pele at New York Cosmos in 1977.
1974 was the first year I followed soccer. There was no bigger name than Franz Beckenbauer that year.
The game has lost some giants the last 18 months or so.
Edit forgot to mention this. Franz voted for us to host the WC when the double 2018 / 2022 rights vote took place at the same time in 2010.
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