Jurgen Klinsmann said Beckenbauer was up there with Pele as a player, in special tribute to the late icon.
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00:00 For all of his players, like Andreas Köpke and myself,
00:04 the team that won the 1990 World Cup with him.
00:08 But every German is a very, very sad day.
00:12 Franz Beckenbauer was the leader of German football for many decades.
00:20 He was with Pelé the best player in the world in the 60s, 70s, 80s.
00:25 For three decades he was an amazing, amazing player.
00:31 Then he became a coach.
00:32 He coached us to win the World Cup, he won the World Cup.
00:35 He brought the World Cup to Germany in 2006,
00:38 which they call in Germany the summer fairy tale that we created.
00:43 He was a wonderful personality, always friendly, always polite,
00:50 always grateful.
00:52 For us players, in those days, he was our mentor, he was almost like a father.
00:59 I think the football world is very, very sad,
01:05 but especially Germany loses its most charismatic leader in sports
01:13 over the last many decades.