Brother provides insight: Football legend Beckenbauer “is not doing well”

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Franz Beckenbauer (78), who fought for the World Cup with Germany and won it in 1974 as a player and in 1990 as a coach, is currently fighting for his health. It is his brother who tells how the football legend is doing. Walter Beckenbauer: “If I were to say now that he is doing well, I would be lying, and I don’t like lying. He is not feeling well. It is a constant up and down.” He gives this insight in the new ARD documentary ‘Beckenbauer’, which will be available to the public from January 2.

The health of the “Kaiser” was already a problem in August. At the time, it was Lothar Matthäus (62) who expressed his concerns on RTL: “His health is not going well. That’s why he wasn’t present at the World Cup meeting four or five weeks ago.” In 1990 they became world champions together, Matthäus as a player and Beckenbauer as a German coach.

A little over a year ago it was the heart and the eye

There was concrete information from Beckenbauer before the 2022 World Cup. The man who, in addition to the two World Cups in 1972, also won the European Championship with Germany, could not travel to Qatar and told the magazine ‘Bunte’ that he should be careful with his heart. He also suffered a so-called eye attack. «Unfortunately I can’t see anything on the right anymore. I can handle that,” Beckenbauer said at the time.

As ‘Bild’ writes, Franz Beckenbauer has ‘largely withdrawn’ from the public eye in recent years and lives in Austria. Now it is his brother’s statements that do not reduce the concerns about the football legend. (str)

Source : Blick