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    Beckenbauer’s reputation is in tatters

    Apr 17, 2020 2 minutes

    Keir RADNEDGE

    THE INSIDER

    Franz Beckenbauer is the greatest German footballer of all time: captain and then coach of World Cup-winning teams in 1974 and 1990, creator of the attacking sweeper role and an international on 103 occasions.

    He later put that reputation to triumphant service as leader of his country’s bid to host the 2006 World Cup, and then as president of the

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