... of their three games at the 1974 World Cup but they gave the hosts West Germany a hard game despite the 3-0 scoreline. FranzBeckenbauer was so annoyed by booing in the home crowd that he ran off at the ...
... s Otto Rehhagel and last season Ottmar Hitzfeld have wilted under the constant sniping from board members Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and FranzBeckenbauer, FC Hollywood’s own Waldorf and Statler. Smaller ...
... talisman – and then nothing since. In their famous green shirts they became the first French club since Reims in 1959 to reach the European Cup final, losing 1-0 to FranzBeckenbauer’s Bayern Munich after ...
... success. And the English are proud of this success.” Nor have any German football figures proposed that the Bundesliga should follow Scudamore’s lead. FranzBeckenbauer found the idea of an international ...
... ss (because Bayern have always restricted access to critical journalists), but rather to keep better control of what it called the club’s “temperamental staff”, in particular president FranzBeckenbauer an ...
... ig news in Germany. Thanks to FranzBeckenbauer’s and Oliver Kahn’s womanising, Mario Basler’s drinking and Stefan Effenberg’s obnoxiousness, the club did their best to earn the nickname FC Hollywood. ...
... FranzBeckenbauer sneered), but in the second he won the title. He treated all players identically regardless of rank, which went down badly with such stars as Lothar Matthäus and Jürgen Klinsmann (the l ...
... no modern manager would dare ask of a star forward in the biggest match of their lives – simply man-mark an opposing centre-back, FranzBeckenbauer, out of the game. He dutifully and effectively complied, ...
... writes on language, culture and society in the German-speaking countries. Unless forcibly restrained by his nursing staff, he can equally perform a plant-withering rendition of FranzBeckenbauer's ...
... Matthäus in captaining West Germany to the 1990 World Cup that there was genuine talk of him as a future German chancellor. In a more likely setting, both FranzBeckenbauer and, most impressively of all, ...
... FranzBeckenbauer stated that he would rather move the side to the Italian league than pay the money back. In 2005, Rummenigge blamed Bayern’s failures in Europe on the “distribution madness” which allocated ...
... gs FranzBeckenbauer ~ The Kaiser made his West Germany debut in September 1965, was player of the year in this, his first Bundesliga season, and scored four times in the 1966 World Cup. The rest is his ...
... executive of a major global lager producer, you’d probably feel you’d earned a couple of weeks watching almost as many World Cup matches as FranzBeckenbauer, occasionally golfing with Michel Platini, ...
... ith boredom. Paraguay have Camissa booked after two minutes and dish out plenty of rough treatment. FranzBeckenbauer spends the whole match leaning forward anxiously like a surgery patient waiting to ...
... Heinze is very fortunate to get only a yellow after bringing down Fonseca on the edge of his area just before half-time. The cameras catch Diego Maradona burping distractedly. No sign of that from Franz ...
... Italy. FranzBeckenbauer predicted Italy will pay the consequences at the World Cup. The international press have had fun getting sanctimonious about sleazy Serie A, too. If a fraction of the allegations ...
... amount of money, Warner Brothers saw no reason why a similar offer wouldn’t entice FranzBeckenbauer. Initially, Beckenbauer insisted the earliest he would come was after the 1978 World Cup, but an offer ...
... esults turn bad – particularly as Bayern’s president FranzBeckenbauer and Klinsmann’s arch-rival Lothar Matthäus both moonlight at Bild. Since Germany’s capitulation in Florence, the tabloid’s sports e ...
... the terrorist atrocities at the Munich Olympics, and the police increased security to such an extent that armed guards roamed training camps and FranzBeckenbauer carried a gun for his own protection. ...