Status: 15.01.2024, 10:30 a.m.
By: Korbinian Kothny
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Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Paul Breitner and Uli Hoeneß visited Franz Beckenbauer until the very end. However, the last scheduled meeting did not take place.
Munich – No trio has shaped FC Bayern as much as Franz Beckenbauer, Uli Hoeneß and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. First as players and later as managers in all kinds of positions, they shaped the German record champions into what they are today.
Regular meetings between Beckenbauer, Hoeneß, Breitner and Rummenigge
Even after the Emperor had withdrawn from public life due to ill health, contact between the Bavarian grandees continued.
Ahead of FC Bayern's start of the year against TSG Hoffenheim on Friday, which was dominated by Beckenbauer's passing, Rummenigge explained that he, Uli Hoeneß and Paul Breitner still regularly visited their companion in Salzburg.
Shaping the FC Bayern of today: Uli Hoeneß, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Franz Beckenbauer. © IMAGO / Sven Simon
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"I regularly went to Salzburg for lunch with Uli and Paul Breitner. We wanted to go there again in October, but it didn't work. We couldn't see him anymore, which he wouldn't have liked," Rummenigge said in the DAZN interview.
The 68-year-old went on to explain on BILD Sport on Sunday: "We actually wanted to do it again, but then we were told that he was in very poor health. And he didn't want to be visited anymore." According to Rummenigge, the meetings took place every four months, and they talked about old times: "He always had this twinkle in his eye."
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When thinking about Beckenbauer, the man from Lippstadt always went into raptures on DAZN on Friday: "I had my first training session at Bayern when I was 18 years old. I learned a lot from him and the others. Franz was the boss because of his performance and personality."
Above all, Rummenigge repeatedly emphasizes his personality. Despite his enormous successes and achievements, Beckenbauer has never taken off, but has always remained the same. "Franz was an incredibly polite and respectful person, he was always the first to go to the stewards in the stadium," Rummenigge recalls. Beckenbauer will now be given a final farewell in "his stadium" on Friday. (kk
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