Franz Beckenbauer died at the age of 78

The great legend of German football was world champion in 1974 as a player and in 1990 as a coach.

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Former German player and coach Franz Beckenbauer He died this Sunday at the age of 78, his family reported on Monday.

Beckenbauer‘The Kaiser’, considered one of the greatest legends of German football, was world champion in 1974 as a player and won the old European Cup three times as a coach in 1990. Bayern Munich

And with the European Championship Germany.

In recent years he retired from public life due to health problems and also because of the scandal unleashed by alleged irregularities in his work. Germany 2006 World Cup Headquarters.

“With deep pain we announce that our father and my husband, Franz Beckenbauer, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Sunday. We ask to mourn in peace and leave all questions,” his family reported.

Precisely this Monday, the first German television network (ARD) was scheduled to broadcast a new documentary about life. Beckenbauer.

The documentary, in addition to archive images, contains statements from his former colleagues. Bayernsuch as Sepp Maier or Paul Breitner, and of German team Like Gunter Netzer.

Prominent people in German life who followed him as fans also appear, such as the recently deceased former finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, former foreign minister Joschka Fischer or former interior minister Otto Schiele.

His ex-wife Sybil Beckenbauer She is also interviewed in the documentary, as are her former partner Diana Sandmund and her brother Walter. Beckenbauer

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However, the former player could not be interviewed for this documentary about his life.