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Beckenbauer, Franz
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Beckenbauer, Franz

(born Sept. 11, 1945, Munich, Ger.) German football (soccer) player. He is credited with inventing the modern attacking sweeper position. Nicknamed “Der Kaiser,” Beckenbauer is the only man to both captain and manage World Cup-winning teams (1974 and 1990, respectively). He spent most of his career with Bayern Munich (1958–77), leading the team to three European Cup championships (1974–76) and four national titles. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1972 and 1976. After brief stints in New York and Hamburg, he retired in 1984 and turned to managing.



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So as we're kickin' around this David Beckham transfer to the local pro kickball team -- deciding whether it's much Adu about nothing, or, in the name of Beckenbauer, Cruyff, Pele and Sir Elton John, if it finally legitimizes what we were to infer was an illegitimate small-fry league -- and in trying to put it into some kind of context, would you say it's most accurate to compare it to when the Dodgers wrangled Frank Robinson, or when the Angels picked up Fernando Valenzuela?
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We naturally want to set an example in terms of environmental protection," OC president Franz Beckenbauer observed at the 2003 launch of the Green Goal Initiative.
 
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