Deschamps’ beautiful tribute to the Kaiser

After having done the same for Mario Zagallo, Didier Deschamps paid tribute to the memory of Franz Beckenbauer who, like him and the Brazilian, was part of the three footballers crowned world champions as player and coach.

”It is with immense sadness that I learned of the death of Franz Beckenbauer. His disappearance comes just a few days after that of Mario Zagallo. It was an immense honor for me to join them both in 2018 among those who had won the World Cup as a player and then as a coach”, noted the boss of the Blues via a press release. “My sentence, today, is equal to the happiness that had been mine at being invited to the table of these two giants of international football. Franz Beckenbauer was first a world-class player, a talented and authoritarian defender with his almost always club, Bayern Munich, but also with the German selection with whom he collected trophies. He exuded a class, a confidence that many sought to be inspired by.”

And Didier Deschamps added: “The one nicknamed the Kaiser took over the German selection in 1984, after an elimination in the first round, and he took it to the final of the 1986 World Cup and to the title, four years later. Through all that he achieved but also what he exuded, Franz Beckenbauer was an extremely respected personality, who embodied the demands of the very highest level. I address his family, his close friends and all those who, like me, admired him, all my support in this sad and painful moment.”

Unsurprisingly, Bayern Munich published a vibrant tribute to Franz Beckenbauer. Trained and launched at the club, the ‘Kaiser’ has won everything with his favorite club.

“The world of FC Bayern is no longer what it was: suddenly darker, calmer, poorer. The club mourns the death of Franz Beckenbauer, the only Kaiser, without whom FC Bayern would never have become the club that it is today”, praised FC Bayern in a communicated. “Beckenbauer died yesterday Sunday at the age of 78, surrounded by his family in Salzburg. FC Bayern mourns alongside his family, friends and companions, including his wife Heidi and his children Thomas, Michael, Joel Maximilian and Francesca Antonie.”

Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, Minister of Sports (AFP): “The Kaiser was him. The culture of winning was him. The classiest defender in history was him. Some days after the death of Mario Zagallo, the football world mourns the passing of a new legend, Franz Beckenbauer. Double winner of the Ballon d’Or, he also achieved the feat of winning the World Cup as a player and coach.”

Rudi Völler, sporting director of the German national team in a press release from the DFB: “I am infinitely sad, the news of his death affects me greatly. I consider it one of the great privileges of my life as a having known and lived with Franz Beckenbauer. Our joint period within the national team was crowned by the title of world champion in Rome in 1990, a title which would never have been possible without his exceptional coaching work. The ‘Kaiser’ has been an inspiration for more than one generation, he will forever remain the luminous figure of German football. With Franz Beckenbauer, German football loses its greatest personality, I lose a great friend.”

“Kaiser” Franz Beckenbauer, German football legend, who died on Sunday at the age of 78, “will be missed”, greeted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday in a message broadcast on X (formerly Twitter).

“World champion as a player and coach: Franz Beckenbauer was one of the greatest German footballers and for many +der Kaiser+, because he also inspired several generations to love German football. We will miss him,” he said. -he writes in his message of condolences to Beckenbauer’s family.

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THE Mannschaft coach Julian Nagelsmann also expressed himself in a press release relayed by the German press: “Franz Beckenbauer was the best footballer in the history of Germany. His interpretation of the role of libero changed the game, this role and his friendship with the ball made him a free man. As a footballer and coach, he was sublime, he was above everything.”

Michel Platini detailed in the program, Rothen ignites what modern football owed to Franz Beckenbauer.

“I think he was a creator, an organizer but behind. He was the first player who made 40-meter passes from behind. He knew how to score goals, he created the offensive defender,” continued Michel Platini. on RMC. “He was always in the creation of football and he was the one who managed it. Technically he was above it. He started in midfield, scored superb goals in 1970 and then after that he got behind . And from behind he created football. He was at the start of the creation of attacks in German football.”

And to return to his time as German coach then as manager: “When you are in politics, it is not the same as on the field. We cannot decide on the values ​​of each other because many took themselves to be big stars in politics. Franz Beckenbauer, he brought the World Cup to Germany (in 2006, editor’s note) and he was always there when he needed to be. He did it with discretion. One day I had a bit of an argument with the authorities because he had just arrived at the level of Fifa and UEFA and he had been put in charge of the women’s under-17s… It was a lack of respect. But all these institutions didn’t like Beckenbauer or Platini. […] For people my age, Pelé, Bobby Charlton, Cruyff and Beckenbauer wrote football history.”

Exceptional guest on the show Rothen s’igne on RMC, Michel Platini paid tribute to the memory of Franz Beckenbauer.

“I took a blow to the head because it was the ‘Kaiser’, and Franz I spent many, many years with him,” said the three-time French Ballon d’Or winner. “First I saw him play against Cruyff or against Pelé at the 1970 World Cup. Afterwards I knew him through my positions within the institutions where I was and where he was. We came a long way together. I knew he was very, very ill because Karl-Heinz Rummenigge had told me so. And there he was, he left us. He was Mr. Football in Germany. He made German football, he made the history of German football.”

And Michel Platini added: “Not only was he a great player but he also had class, kindness, a smile and charm. He was an exceptional person and I was proud to be his friend.”

“Rest in peace,” wrote the former French international striker.

In a communicated published on its website, Real Madrid paid a beautiful tribute to the “Kaiser” after his death this Monday.

“Real Madrid CF, its president and its board of directors deeply regret the death of Franz Beckenbauer, one of the greatest legends of European and world football,” the Merengues wrote. “Real Madrid would like to express its condolences and love to his family, his teammates, his clubs and all his loved ones.”

OM published a message to pay tribute to the memory of Franz Beckenbauer.

“Franz Beckenbauer has left us. A historic personality in European football, he served as coach of Olympique de Marseille during the 1990-1991 season,” the Olympian club wrote on social networks. “Olympique de Marseille sends its sincere condolences to his family and loved ones.”

Two world titles (including one as a coach), a Euro, two Golden Balls, three Champions Leagues… Franz Beckenbauer was, above all, a totally crazy track record.

Former England international Gary Lineker, now a journalist for the BBC, in turn paid tribute to Kaiser Franz Beckenbauer in a message posted on X (formerly Twitter).

“Very sad to hear of the death of Franz Beckenbauer. One of the greatest of our sport. The Kaiser was the most handsome footballer, winning everything with grace and charm. RIP.”

Away from the media scene due to health problems, Franz Beckenbauer has been discreet in recent months.

His last publication on the social network

“Today, football lost the best player in its history – and I lost a unique friend. Football belongs to you forever. Rest in peace, Pelé,” the Kaiser wrote.

Eric Di Meco, who met Franz Beckenbauer at OM, in the Super Moscato Show: “I worked with him for six months. He is the most classy character I have met in football, and one of the three or four monsters I was able to meet and who remain engraved in your memory for life even when you stay six months. It was class, it was talent.”

“To give you the class of the character, every morning that God did at the time when he was with us, upon arriving at the stadium, he would stop by to greet the laundry worker, the storekeeper. He would go through the locker rooms to greet all the physiotherapists, all the doctors, all the players. He went to change… and he came back. Every morning he did that. I’ve never seen that. He left only good memories here.”

German football legend Franz Beckenbauer has died at the age of 78, the German football federation announced.

After Mario Zagallo and before Didier Deschamps, he is one of three men to have won the Football World Cup as a player and as a coach.

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