Talk:Franz Beckenbauer

Honorary Captain of the German Soccer Squad

Source: http://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=12347 (in German) Nulli (talk) 15:57, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Is he unique or not?

"he is the only player to have won the World Cup and the European Championships both as a captain and a coach (Brazil's former striker Zagallo has also coached his country to the cup, but he never captained his side)."

But later the article says he is the only person to have done this. Needs clarifying, in the english version at least

the photo is not franz beckenbauer. sorry, i made a mistake, it is franz.

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I feel he is quite unique; his drive has been football during his whole life, and he is the first player to have won the World Cup as player and coach for his own country (which marks the difference with the brazillian Zagallo)

"he is the only player to have won the World Cup and the European Championships both as a captain and a coach (Brazil's former striker Zagallo has also coached his country to the cup, but he never captained his side)."

While he has won the European Championships as a captain in 1972, he has never won them as a coach. In his only attempt, the West German team was ousted by the Netherlands in the semifinals in 1988.

Unsourced material

The following is unsourced information:

• Beckenbauer's digital image was reproduced for Adidas's José+10 football advertisement. The ad shows a young-looking Beckenbauer from the 1970s playing with contemporary players like Zinedine Zidane, David Beckham, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Kaká, Jermain Defoe, Oliver Kahn, Michael Ballack, Juan Román Riquelme, Arjen Robben, Lukas Podolski, Raul Gonzalez, Bastian Schweinsteiger and Djibril Cissé. The ad shows Beckenbauer wearing the West German 1974 World Cup jersey which he wore number 5. This is the same jersey he is wearing when he was the first player to hoist the FIFA World Cup Trophy. The ad also digitally reproduces the image of French great Michel Platini and legendary Italian defender Giuseppe Bergomi .
• He is featured in the game FIFA Street 2 as the player with the highest stats.
• He appears in FIFA 07 in the Classic XI team as the Sweeper. His stats are 94 Overall, making him the best player in the game.
• In the "Pro Evolution Soccer" games, he appears in the Classic Germany team with a false name.
• While playing with the youth team of SC Munich 1906 Beckenbauer was a supporter of the Bayern Munich city rival 1860 Munich and intended to join the club in 1958. But after a game with his youth team a player of 1860 Munich slapped him in his face. Upset about this he changed his plans and instead of joining the "Blues", which had been the more popular team at this time in Munich, Beckenbauer joined the "Reds".

• When he was age 8, he saw the 1954 Switzerland World Cup final match, which Germany won and became world champion, and said to his mother: "I'll be the winner of that final match when I become an adult football player." He really became a champion of 1974 World Cup after 20 years.

While this is interesting, we can't use it unless you provide a source. Also, none of this is really trivia, as trivia by its definition is "unimportant information" - it therefore shouldn't be in a trivia section but instead the information should be incorporated into the main article. - Tbsdy lives (talk) 11:05, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

.. the only player to have actively won all three types of World Cup Medals

"... making him the only player to have actively won all three types of World Cup Medals (Franco Baresi] achieved a similar feet between 1982 and 1990, however did not play in any match in Italy's successful 1982 World Cup)."

I don't believe that Beckenbauer is the only one. What about Horst-Dieter Höttges who also played in all World cups between 1966 and 1974, see his FIFA record? --Jaellee (talk) 18:38, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

You're right; there are about five players like this, see List of Germany international footballers. Baresi is the only non-German. ArtVandelay13 (talk) 19:09, 26 January 2011 (UTC)