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 ...

Franz Beckenbauer has now officially been given his very own place in Munich, just as he has in the hearts of all FC Bayern fans and football lovers: in one of those places where the memory of the ...

BERLIN (AP) — Franz Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup both as player and coach and became one of Germany’s most beloved personalities with his easygoing charm, has died. He was 78. Beckenbauer's ...

Revolutionary soccer player Franz Beckenbauer, one of the few men to win the World Cup as both as a player and a coach, has died at the age of 78, according to the German football federation (DFB).

Growing up in bombed-out Munich after the Second World War, a young Franz Beckenbauer spent hours and hours kicking a ball against a brick wall. “That wall was the most honest team-mate I could ever ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bayern Munich honorary President Franz Beckenbauer walks to the podium during the presentation of the champion teams ahead of the ...

Soccer icon Franz Beckenbauer, widely considered to be one of the greatest players in the history of the game, has died aged 78, according to the German football federation (DFB). The DFB called ...

Billed as $100m of soccer talent, a star-studded New York Cosmos met Australia at the Sydney Showground in October, 1979. In an era when the Socceroos rarely drew 10,000, four times that number of ...

BERLIN, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Germany's Franz Beckenbauer, one of soccer's greatest players who captained his country to World Cup glory in 1974 and won the tournament again as manager in 1990, has died ...

These are the last photographs of German football legend Franz Beckenbauer in public - almost exactly a year before he died at the age of 78. 'Der Kaiser' was pictured with his wife Heidi and son Joel ...

Franz Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup both as player and coach and became one of Germany’s most beloved personalities with his easygoing charm, has died, news agency dpa reported Monday. He was 78.