Bobby Charlton’s iconic tribute to Franz Beckenbauer resurfaces after German football legend’s death

Bobby Charlton's tribute to Franz Beckenbauer resurfaces after football legend's deathSource: Laureus

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00:00 1966, when my team England had reached the World Cup final and we were due to play Germany

00:07 and our manager before every match always used to say to us who he thought were the

00:13 important players, the instructions that he wanted them to carry out and it was probably

00:18 the most important football match in my whole career, I've dreamt about it and he said to me

00:24 Bobby, he says we will win the World Cup this afternoon, there is only one person who can

00:30 possibly stop us from doing that, he said and that is this young player, the midfield

00:35 player who plays for West Germany and he said I want you for the whole 90 minutes to stay

00:41 with him and don't go further than three feet away from him for the whole time and as a

00:47 footballer I've been looking forward so much to this, I didn't really want to man Mark

00:51 but what I heard later was that Helmut Schoen, the German manager had told Franz Beckenbauer

00:56 the same thing about me, so much so that one of the most important matches in either of

01:04 our careers was a man to man marking job where we had to take and we actually took no part

01:10 at all of importance in the whole game, I suppose England were the successful ones because

01:17 that's justified in the result.