He was world champion as a player and as a coach. But his third career as a sports official threatens to damage the reputation of “Kaiser” Franz Beckenbauer massively. Because on the allegations to the awarding of the 2006 World Cup now joins an indictment of the FIFA Ethics Committee
This question is since last week in the room at the latest.: How big is the shadow that falls on the “guiding light” of German football?
Franz Beckenbauer has become as a player (1974) and as a coach (1990) World Cup champion. That alone has so far only managed the Brazilian Mario Zagallo beside him. In his third career as a sports official who brought “Emperor” then also the 2006 World Cup to Germany.
allegations of corruption to the “summer fairy tale”
Because Beckenbauer was not only long years president of “his” Bayern Munich and one of the Vice-Chief of the German Football Association. He just also launched the application and later organizing committee for the much acclaimed home World Cup – and then sat in the 2007-2011 Executive Committee of the world governing body FIFA. Exactly these two activities for which FIFA and the “summer fairy tale”, are now threatening to damage at least greatly his formidable reputation.
Last Friday, the news magazine “Der Spiegel” serious allegations of corruption against the German bidding committee rose. It is said to have bought the 2006 World Cup by means of a slush fund.
2014 already blocked
Beckenbauer denied that vehemently, but is since this Wednesday for another affair already in the twilight. Since the FIFA Ethics Committee has completed its investigation against him and filed charges.
The background is the scandalous Award of the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar in December 2010. The “Emperor” should, like all other former members statements of the FIFA Executive Committee to do so. Because he refused to do so at first, he had been in 2014 already provisionally closed for 90 days.
The emperor hovers over everything
For years, it had looked as if Beckenbauer succeed everything he touches in his life. Symbolically it stood beside his whole success always the anecdote from the summer of 1994, when he first led Bayern as interim coach for the first German championship after today unimaginably long four years without a title – and then in the evening the goal wall of ZDF “gyms” even hit by a wheat beer glass from.
But at some point the fan favorite, many media and advertising industry seemed to float in such a way above all things, that he walked away seemingly lost the view of some.
“I have not seen a single slave in Qatar. The all run around freely,” he said at the height of the first debates on the human rights situation in the World Cup host country. At the latest since the first shadow over the “shining light” did on
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