Franz Beckenbauer is 70: From the Life of a Sunday child – Tagesspiegel

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He voted for Putin and WM kungelte with Blatter, but when Franz Beckenbauer cares simply no. Now he is 70. An appreciation.

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Over the roofs of Salzburg he moves again to shorts and football boots. “Schau’n mer times whether s’ still fit,” said Franz Beckenbauer, and then he strode out into the small soccer field in front of his house, in the wake of the children Francesca and Joel. All three bow and wave in an imaginary audience, this is only the Mama on the balcony. “Goals shoots only Francesca!” Cries Beckenbauer. Then he dances a few minutes on the artificial turf, more leisurely than in the past, yet with a touch of elegance, as he restored the monarchy to German meadows and the world bowed before him. On Friday, he celebrates his 70th birthday, but like the football and still can not leave the football emperor. For a custom-built by the ARD birthday portrait (telecast on Sunday, 21:45 clock) he can even film with his children, which can prevent the other side from imperial holidays with legal counsel the family.

Of course, the Lichtgestalt Beckenbauer a product of football. The man owes its fame to a virtuosity on the ball that you want to call as stroking hardly because the gross sounds already inappropriate. With its ease Franz Beckenbauer has the Germans also helped himself a little more love. His popularity has suffered in the recent past a little. Because of its proximity to the scandal-ridden FIFA boss Sepp Blatter, the partisanship for the 2018 World Cup in Putin’s Russia, or an idiosyncratic expertise on working conditions in Qatar, it reads as follows: “I have not seen a single slave in Qatar. The all run around freely, yet neither shackled in chains with some Büßerkappe head “

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Probably this will be soon forgotten, like so much of what he has in the past years and decades given of himself and hired. Adenauer did not care to be talked yesterday to the Beckenbauer cares nobody else. Otto Rehhagel has this phenomenon once described as: “If the Franz says tomorrow, The ball is rectangular ‘, clapping and cheers all write: Finally it has a once said!’”

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“The ball is the perfection of the wheel”

Mei, the Franz … sigh his critics who rather critical friends are. At 17, he has impregnated his girlfriend and senior citizens as a club president and a secretary of the Christmas party after his FC Bayern München. After Willy Brandt’s election as chancellor feared Beckenbauer proportions as in the GDR, before tax, he fled first to the United States and later to Austria. For this purpose, he believes in a later reincarnation as a woman and that he was in a previous life times South Americans. And as for the rectangular ball, he refutes the thesis of Mr Rehhagel decided in the film Birthday:

“That he is around, that makes the game easier. Because if he was cornered or how the egg in American football, then you would get more difficult to handle the ball. So it is adapted to the solar system. The greatest invention of man, they say, is the wheel. The wheel is indeed round. The ball is the perfection of the wheel “

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Franz Beckenbauer can say and do, what he wants

Franz Beckenbauer can say and do what he wants – and always hovering but above it all. As early as the footballer who has revolutionized the game with his elegance and perfection. Or in the second appointment as coach of the national team, with his bemused walk across the lawn of Rome, as around him the Stadio Olimpico trembles after winning the World Cup final over Argentina. And in the late works as world traveler diplomat who is dancing around campfires, plays in Dubai Golf and the Pope’s hand shakes, so that the world championship will be awarded in 2006 to Germany

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No one in the entertainment industry sport this country has so strongly and nonchalant at the same time marked as Franz Beckenbauer. A child from a modest background, born in Munich working class district Giesing on 11 September 1945 on a “… mei, what was the for a week …”, it was of course a Sunday.

The football he discovered how so many key children after the war on the road. The match at the club around the corner, the proposed change to 1860 München prevents Watsch’n a Sechzigers that zeitigt similar severe consequences such as the rejection of the Beatles by the record company Decca. Offended draws Beckenbauer a house next to Bayern, and whether this would have developed without his aura to today’s world group, but may be very strongly challenged.