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BERLIN editorial
AFP
"Welcome to the club," German football legend Franz Beckenbauer said yesterday to French coach Didier Deschamps, the new world champion in Russia-2018 after playing in France -1998 an achievement that the "Kaiser" had already accomplished before, like the Brazilian Mario Zagallo
"Now we are three. Maybe we should meet, "joked the" Kaiser "in the columns of the German newspaper Bild, after the dedication of the Blues to Moscow last Sunday against Croatia (4-2).
The coach French Sunday night He joined this privileged club that until now integrated Beckenbauer and the Brazilian Mario Zagallo, the only athletes in history to dedicate world champions as a player and then as a & # 39; Coach
Deschamps "was the captain of the French in 1998 win," said Beckenbauer. "You automatically learn how to use a computer. It also helped me as a coach, "he added.
Franz Beckenbauer won the World Cup as captain of the Mannschaft in 1974 and Italy-1990 sitting on the bench.
In the case of Zagallo, he was champion as a player in Sweden-1958 and Chile-1962, then proclaimed world champion as a coach in Mexico-1970.
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