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Beckenbauer on the case of the World Championship: allegations "beaten and hated"
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Franz Beckenbauer comments on the accusations made during the awarding of the Bavarian Sports Prize in Munich. Photo: Sven Hoppe
Source: dpa-infocom GmbH
This is one of the few public appearances of Franz Beckenbauer. In Munich, the football icon is honored as the athlete of the century. Beckenbauer comments on the case of the 2006 World Cup, which is a shadow on the old figure of light.
M ünchen (dpa) – Franz Beckenbauer again firmly rejected the accusations against him regarding the awarding of the 2006 Football World Cup.
These were "beaten" and foul, "said Beckenbauer The Bavarian Sports Award in Munich," I've always said that. " The 72-year-old man on the scene was asked what strength the setbacks would have cost him after the 2006 World Cup.
"You form your own image, you have You have no way of counter it, so I gave up too, "Beckenbauer said. "I told people who asked me."
At the center of the case, a millionaire payment, in 2002, from an account of the organizer of the Beckenbauer World Cup on Switzerland to Qatar to a FIFA company of the # 39; era. -Functional Mohamed Bin Hammam sank. Beckenbauer had already received millions of dollars from the former boss of Adidas, Robert Louis-Dreyfus, for this payment. The Organizing Committee of the World Cup paid this sum of 6.7 million euros in April 2005, declared erroneous to Louis-Dreyfus. What the money was originally intended for is still not clear. Beckenbauer has always rejected the allegations made against him.
The former world champion as a player and coach was honored at the 17th ceremony in the athletes category of the century. The humorous eulogy on Beckenbauer was held by his longtime companion Günter Netzer. The two have known each other for over 50 years. "He was the best before his time, during his best time and even after him nothing better has come," Netzer said about Beckenbauer.
In a certain category Netzer lie by his own admission even before the German football icon: Beckenbauer "Four ring roads, I have six," said Netzer laughing. "It's a dubious competition, we did not want it both," said Netzer, 73, who had brought Beckenbauer to Hamburg SV in the early 1980s.
Beckenbauer, according to him, feels "physically sick". rather well, "even he had to spend a lot of time with" the hospital, rehabilitation, hospital, rehabilitation "." If you are 70 years old and you are approaching 80, c & rsquo; Is a bit exaggerated, "recognizes Beckenbauer, who had already received the" Bavarian Prime Minister's Personal Award "from Edmund Stoiber in 2005.
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