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Episode 17 - Contes de Foot Twitter / Contes de Foot - @Contesfoot FRANZ BECKENBAUER The Emperor will remain the Emperor forever, the young teenager who seduced the whole of Europe at Wembley has become in ten years the greatest, the most recognized and the most successful German player, the first and still the only defender to have won the Ballon d'Or twice. But was Beckenbauer really a defender, he who wonderfully symbolized the transformation of German football and that of the position of libero, of center half, a control tower with peripheral vision who dissuades attackers, dictates the tempo, distils caviars by the dozen while benefiting from a simply unique touch of the ball and an extraordinary volume of play. Unlike Johan, Franz did not have a lucky number, but unlike Cruyff, Beckenbauer won everything, won everything, in Germany, in Europe, in the United States, in the world, with the national team and with his club, collectively and individually. The best player in the history of German football is a world star, less legendary than Pelé, less popular than Cruyff, less iconic than Maradona certainly, but no less fantastic, both for his tactical contribution to the game and for his sensational record for a footballer with a defensive vocation. This face full of innocence, courage and leadership, is the face of a man 840 matches played in his career, more than 100 goals scored, some of which are little wonders, and no less than 120 assists throughout his nineteen seasons as a professional player. To talk about Franz Beckenbauer is to talk about a kid from Munich who succeeded in everything or almost everything, becoming in a few years the star of the early days of the great Bayern and the emblematic captain and coach of the FRG who conquered the world in 1974 and 1990. You may have noticed, there is a word missing in this Football Tales, because indeed, from the young Munich winger to the supreme libero of the great West Germany a myth was built but above all a timeless nickname. Franz Beckenbauer was indeed the Emperor, or rather Der Kaiser.