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” Karl-Heinz Rummenigge: “It takes the floor out from under you’ Paul Breitner: ‘Franz leaves an emptiness behind that we will always feel.
There's a saying that you shouldn't say anything bad about people who have died - we wouldn't think of anything anyway"