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      • Growing up in Munich, a young Beckenbauer would spend hours and hours kicking a ball against a brick wall. Years later he’d confess, “That wall was the most honest team-mate I could ever have wished for. Whenever you played a proper pass to it, you’d get a proper pass back and didn’t need to run.”
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  2. Jan 9, 2024 · Growing up in bombed-out Munich after the Second World War, a young Franz Beckenbauer spent hours and hours kicking a ball against a brick wall.

  3. Jan 9, 2024 · Growing up in Munich, a young Beckenbauer would spend hours and hours kicking a ball against a brick wall. Years later he’d confess, “That wall was the most honest team-mate I could ever have wished for. Whenever you played a proper pass to it, you’d get a proper pass back and didn’t need to run.”

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  4. Many have heard the story how cricket's greatest batter, Don Bradman, honed his skills by hitting a golf ball with a stump against a curved wall. The curved wall meant the ball would come...

  5. Sep 19, 2017 · There was the Semi-Final match between Italy and West Germany; which is often termed as the greatest Football match in the history. Known as the "Game of the Century", this particular match had...

  6. Disregarding the fans' hooting, Beckenbauer took the ball into the opposite part of the field, where he balanced the ball in front of the upset fans for half a minute. Libuda was commonly called König von Westfalen ( ' king of Westphalia ' ), so the press looked for an even more exalted moniker and invented der Kaiser .

  7. Jan 9, 2024 · Franz Beckenbauer wasn't perfect, but he was one of the best-ever players and managers, also changing what it meant to be a central defender.

  8. Sep 7, 2024 · Franz Beckenabuer is a German football (soccer) player who is one of only three people to win the World Cup as a player and as a coach (1974 and 1990, respectively). Nicknamed “der Kaiser,” Beckenbauer dominated German football in the 1960s and ’70s and is arguably the country’s greatest footballer.