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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former professional footballers Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Wolfgang Overath, Lothar Matthaeus, Guenter Netzer, Karl-Heinz "Charly" ...

Franz Beckenbauer really was one of those players who could talk with his feet, although there were some during his later life who felt his legacy would have been grander if he restricted himself to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - German soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer, head of Germany's organising committee for the soccer World Cup, plays with the ...

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 ...

Legendary former German soccer player and head coach Franz Beckenbauer has died aged 78. The defender known as "Der Kaiser" is generally considered as one of the best to have ever played the game. "It ...

Franz Beckenbauer, who won a World Cup for West Germany as a player in 1974 and then guided his country to another title as a manager 16 years later, died Sunday. He was 78. The German news agency ...

No live broadcast to the villa in Salzburg, no gentle smile under white hair, no "well, you know" or "well, uh..." into the microphone. Franz Beckenbauer would have celebrated his 80th birthday today.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. By taking a step back, Franz Beckenbauer put ...