After the death of Franz Beckenbauer, his role in the awarding of the 2006 home World Cup was remembered. For Christian Streich, head coach of SC Freiburg, this debate was exaggerated from the start.
When Franz Beckenbauer is discussed, most people remember his services to FC Bayern and German football. The former world-class footballer led the national team to their third World Cup title in 1990 and played a crucial role at the 2006 World Cup as president of the organizing committee.
Fuss about a million-dollar payment
The awarding of the tournament to Germany came into focus years later. As the Southgerman newspaper As described, the DFB made a payment of 6.7 million euros to FIFA in April 2005. The world association passed on the sum to the former Adidas boss Robert Louis-Dreyfus, which paid off a ten million franc loan from Beckenbauer. The main question is why Beckenbauer was granted the loan and why the amount went to the Qatari FIFA official Mohammed bin Hammam. Christian Streich was excited at the SC Freiburg press conference before the home game against Union Berlin (Saturday, 3:30 p.m) about the still unresolved chapter that has cast a shadow over Beckenbauer’s life’s work.
“That was terrible, I thought”
“It was very extreme for him and from my point of view completely wrong. Everyone wanted the World Cup in Germany, then it came and we profited brutally socially,” Streich Beckenbauer defended: “Nobody thought that there would be something like that in Germany. Everyone abroad said: ‘The Germans can’t be like that.’ The Second World War wasn’t that long ago after all – and then he was the culprit. That was terrible, I thought.”
“That says everything about Franz Beckenbauer”
Streich also reported on his first encounter with Beckenbauer. Before the recording of the football talk show Sky90 The TV expert at the time sent him into the mask. “I didn’t have the courage to say I wasn’t going,” Streich recalled. “I immediately went into the mask. The make-up artist sat there and said, ‘The man who sent you in is the nicest man in the shop.’ That says everything about Franz Beckenbauer.”
2024-01-12 20:34:08
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