FIFA president Joseph Batter, left, applauds German President Horst Koehler, second left, as he declares open the 2006 Soccer World Cup in Germany ahead of the Germany v Costa Rica Group A soccer match at World Cup stadium, Munich, Germany, June 9, 2006. The other teams in Group A are Ecuador and Poland. Waving on right is German soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer, the pesident the local Organizing Commitee.
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FILE PHOTO: German soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer poses after being included into the Hall of Fame, a permanent exhibition honouring German soccer legends at the German Football Museum in Dortmund, Germany, April 1, 2019. Ina Fassbender/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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Franz Beckenbauer holds aloft the World Cup football championship trophy to about 50,000 people who gave the German Soccer team a roaring welcome at Frankfurt's Roemerberg Square on July 10, 1990.
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Franz Beckenbauer of West Germany is mobbed by the press after winning the final of the World Cup football championship against Holland in Munich, West Germany on July 07, 1974. Germany won 2-1.
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Franz Beckenbauer, West German soccer star and one of the architects of his nation's 1974 World Cup win, joins all-time soccer great 'King' Pele at New York Cosmos' stadium. Beckenbauer is yet another footballer to feel the lure of American dollars. He signed a multi-million dollar contract to play for New York Cosmos, last week. (Pubd. in The Hindu on May 31, 1977).
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** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITONS, MAY 29-30 ** FILE - In this July 7, 1974 file photo, West Germany's Franz Beckenbauer, holds up the World Cup trophy after they defeated the Netherlands 2-1 in the World Cup soccer final at Munich's Olympic stadium in Germany. (AP Photo/stf) ▲
Team of champions is a deserved description of the FC Bayern Munich Soccer club. After six of its players, team skipper Franz Beckenbauer to the fore, had won the European Championship with the national team of the Federation Republic of Germany, this Germany club team, by far the best German eleven at the moment, has just snatched the 1971-72 German Football Championship with a clear 5-1 victory over FC Schalke 04. Watched by 80,000 spectators in the Munich Olympic Stadium, FC Bayern also set up a unique record: with 55:13 points and 101:38 goals, they made themselves the best champions since the Federal League was founded. Midfielder attacker Gerd Muller alone shot 40 goals, earning himself the crown as European king of goals, in Munich on July 06, 1972.
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