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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jan 8, 2024 17:01:00 GMT
Just a few days after the death of the first person to win the World Cup as both a player and a manager (Zagallo from Brazil), the second one (*) to do so, German Franz Beckenbauer, also dies, at the age of 78. R.I.P.
(*)I am doing this from memory, so I could be wrong, but I don't think I am.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jan 8, 2024 18:25:03 GMT
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Post by LeBeauSerge on Jan 8, 2024 20:04:44 GMT
R.I.P.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Jan 8, 2024 20:50:04 GMT
Just a few days after the death of the first person to win the World Cup as both a player and a manager (Zagallo from Brazil), the second one (*) to do so, German Franz Beckenbauer, also dies, at the age of 78. R.I.P.
(*)I am doing this from memory, so I could be wrong, but I don't think I am.
I remembered it correctly that Zagallo was the first to win the World Cup as a player (in 1958) and then as a manager (in 1970), then Beckenbauer did it in 1974 and 1990, and Didier Deschamps in 1998 and 2018.
Beckenbauer was the first one to win the World Cup as a Captain and later as a manager. Deschamps did it as well.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jan 8, 2024 21:48:29 GMT
Bet Deschamps in shiteing himself just now!
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jan 9, 2024 0:23:51 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jan 9, 2024 0:28:23 GMT
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Post by politicidal1 on Jan 9, 2024 16:34:34 GMT
R.I.P.
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Post by notoriousnobbi on Jan 9, 2024 18:10:01 GMT
Beckenbauer is an interesting case regarding the media handling him. He had reached a status of being sort of "untouchable" by media, sort of "sakrosant" as we call it in German. We did basically know about his many women affairs and his several children and we also knew that the world championship 2006 had been made possible by some filthy deals behind the curtain.
But the journalists (mostly) shied away from attacking him bc he was such an icon. Only few persons reach this status being untouchable by tabloids, the Austrian chansonnier Udo Jürgens was a similar case (only regarding affairs, not corruption...).
Uli Hoeneß was also quite close to that status, but the tax affairs did cost him a bit
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Post by petrolino on Jan 13, 2024 3:06:23 GMT
Legend. Every great player in his wake, from Lothar Matthäus and Andreas Brehme, to Jürgen Kohler to Matthias Sammer, followed in his footsteps.
R.I.P.
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