World Cup Franz Beckenbauer

[Belgium Yellow]

Deserves a thread. RIP The Kaiser.
One of the all time greats - I mean top 10. Up with Bobby Moore as best ever defender.

 

[Marked Ox]

RIP.

 

[ThatSlopesATwelfthMan]

RIP Kaiser. What a player! The Bundesliga have just released a good obituary film on YouTube:

 

[dickwalton1964]

Rolls Royce of a defender. Not sure he ever broke sweat, exquisite timing and very similar to Bobby Moore.

Nothing personifies German efficiency like The Kaiser did.

 

[Leysboy]

Superb player, and manager. Plenty of passion shown on the pitch, and on the touch line.

RIP to a world great.

 

[Scotchegg]

One of the greatest players of all time and virtually redesigned the way teams play football in the same way that Cruyff did.

Also absolutely loved my Beckenbauer boots when I was younger!

 

[holdsteady]

Never saw him as a player but remember him as the West Germany Manager winning the World Cup, also remember him as the name of a lovely pair of football boots that I couldn’t afford until I was an adult with a job.

 

[holdsteady]

One of the greatest players of all time and virtually redesigned the way teams play football in the same way that Cruyff did.

Also absolutely loved my Beckenbauer boots when I was younger!

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I had a pair of the moulded studs, lovely boot.

 

[Carpy]

One of the greatest players of all time and virtually redesigned the way teams play football in the same way that Cruyff did.

Also absolutely loved my Beckenbauer boots when I was younger!

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Copa Mundials were the dog's B*****s of boots