{"id":476404,"date":"2024-01-19T18:10:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T22:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=476404"},"modified":"2024-01-19T17:37:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T21:37:57","slug":"bayern-munich-honors-late-franz-beckenbauer-at-emotional-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bayern-munich-honors-late-franz-beckenbauer-at-emotional-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich honors late Franz Beckenbauer at emotional ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Franz Beckenbauer was a great German who became the best ambassador for his country worldwide, said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday during a memorial at the Allianz Arena in Munich for the former world champion.<\/p>\n<p>Steinmeier and Chancellor Olaf Scholz led a lengthy list of attendees, which included numerous German football legends.<\/p>\n<p>The legend of Bayern Munich, German, and world football, Beckenbauer, who passed away at the age of 78 earlier this month, played a key role in modernizing football and became the embodiment of Germany&#8217;s post-war sporting success. He captained his country to victory in the 1974 World Cup on home soil. With wreaths laid at the center of the field around a large image of Beckenbauer, his family, friends, and fans emotionally bid farewell to the football legend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udfc6 Player, Emperor, Human<\/p>\n<p>More than 30,000 people came to Munich&#8217;s Allianz Arena to honor one of Germany&#8217;s greatest ever footballers, Franz Beckenbauer.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Kaiser. \ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RbdfeuZvvy\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/RbdfeuZvvy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DW Sports (@dw_sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dw_sports\/status\/1748438675292147713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Franz Beckenbauer won the World Cup both as a player and as the coach of Germany in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>With Bayern, he was a three-time European club champion, a four-time German champion, and a holder of the World Club Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franz Beckenbauer was a great German who became the best ambassador for his country worldwide, said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":476405,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16746,21108],"news_category":[139,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[17959,21109],"acf":{"announce":"Allianz Arena hosted the event in honor of the German football legend","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476406,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476404\/revisions\/476406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476404"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=476404"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=476404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}