As part of the club’s 125th-anniversary celebrations, FC Bayern will host a one-off legends tournament on 17 March 2025 in honour of its late honorary president. All proceeds from the Beckenbauer Cup ...

Franz Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup both as player and coach and became one of Germany’s most beloved personalities with his easygoing charm, has died. He was 78. Beckenbauer's death was first ...

First Mario Zagallo, then Franz Beckenbauer. Within a few days, football’s most distinguished club has been reduced to a lone, living member. Only Didier Deschamps is left of the select band who won ...

Growing up in bombed-out Munich after the Second World War, a young Franz Beckenbauer spent hours and hours kicking a ball against a brick wall. “That wall was the most honest team-mate I could ever ...

MUNICH — German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier paid tribute to Franz Beckenbauer as thousands gathered at Bayern Munich's stadium on Friday for a memorial service dedicated to the player and coach ...

German football icon Franz Beckenbauer is struggling with ill-health and the fall-out from the World Cup 2006 hosting scandal, his brother Walter says. A new documentary on 1974 World Cup winner ...

Soccer icon Franz Beckenbauer, widely considered to be one of the greatest players in the history of the game, has died aged 78, according to the German football federation (DFB). The DFB called ...

BERLIN, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Germany's Franz Beckenbauer, one of soccer's greatest players who captained his country to World Cup glory in 1974 and won the tournament again as manager in 1990, has died ...

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Franz Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup both as player and coach and became one of Germany’s most beloved personalities with his easygoing charm, has died, news agency dpa reported Monday. He was 78.