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 ...

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 ...

Franz Beckenbauer has now officially been given his very own place in Munich, just as he has in the hearts of all FC Bayern fans and football lovers: in one of those places where the memory of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Franz Beckenbauer, former professional footballer takes part in the gala for the inauguration of the Hall of Fame of German ...

Franz Beckenbauer, a World Cup winner with West Germany as a player and coach who was regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time, has died at the age of 78. German news agency DPA said ...

It has been one year since the passing of Franz Beckenbauer. Numerous tributes have been made to honour the Kaiser, one of the greatest figures in German and world football, including the renaming of ...

BERLIN — 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 ...

The “libero” — taken from the Italian word for “free” and describing a player who had a covering role behind a defensive line — was not an entirely new concept to soccer by the late 1960s and early ...

MUNICH (AP) — Reactions to the death of soccer great Franz Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup both as player and coach for Germany, at the age of 78: “The football world mourns the loss of the ...