When Heidi Beckenbauer gave him the news of his death, Hoeneß quickly hung up. “We all knew that things weren’t going well for Franz, but that it happened so quickly was a terrible shock” says Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.

‘This is how the good Lord imagined the world’: BeckenBauer’s highlight gives you goosebumps to read. � “I miss you very much. Rest in peace.” “At the beginning there was certainly a certain amount of skepticism towards us younger people who now want to turn the club around, but we became friends, he wanted to be close to us and called us often. He will remain an incomparable person to me forever”