As of: January 19, 2024, 4:16 p.m
By: Christoph Wutz
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Around 50,000 people commemorate the “Emperor” locally.
Greats of football and politics say goodbye in Munich.
The sadness is great.
1 / 6Paul Breitner (in the foreground) was close to tears at the Beckenbauer memorial service.
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2 / 6Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Wolfgang Overath and Lothar Matthäus accompanied Franz Beckenbauer for decades.
At the funeral service they laid flowers for the shining light of German football.
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3 / 6Bavaria Honorary President Uli Hoeneß (m., 2nd from left), Prime Minister Markus Söder (m. 2nd from right), Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (m. far right) and the “Emperor’s” son Joel Beckenbauer (in the foreground, far right) mourned the passing of the shining figure in the FC Bayern stadium.
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4 / 6The current FC Bayern team (above, from left: Sven Ulreich, Daniel Peretz, Manuel Neuer, Eric Dier, Harry Kane; below from left: Tarek Buchmann, Frans Krätzig, Aleksandar Pavlovic, Mathys Tel, Bouna Sarr) was also there Funeral service in the Allianz Arena on site.
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5 / 6FIFA President Gianni Infantino (l.) and the President of Paris Saint-Germain, Nasser Al-Khelaifi (r.), also mourned the “Emperor” in the stadium.
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6 / 6Some German football legends around Paul Breitner (3rd from left), Berti Vogts (4th from left) and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (3rd from right) remembered Franz Beckenbauer in the Allianz Arena.
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