Franz Beckenbauer died at the age of 78.

The greatest legend of German football was world champion as a player in 1974 and as a coach in 1990.

Former German player and coach Franz Beckenbauer He died this Sunday at the age of 78, his family said Monday.

BeckenbauerConsidered the greatest legend of German football, Kaiser was world champion as a player in 1974 and as a coach in 1990, he won the old European Cup three times with the team Bavaria and the European Championship with Germany.

In recent years he has retreated from public life due to health problems and a scandal sparked by alleged irregularities in his work to obtain Germany World Cup 2006 headquarters.

“It is with deep pain that we inform you that our father and my husband, Franz Beckenbauer, passed away peacefully on Sunday surrounded by his family. We ask that we be able to grieve in peace and not ask any questions,” his family said.

It was on this Monday that the First German Television Network (ARD) was supposed to show a new documentary about the life of Beckenbauer.

In the documentary, in addition to archival photographs, there are statements from his former colleagues Bavarialike Sepp Mayer or Paul Breitner, and German team like Günther Netzer.

There are also prominent people from German life who followed him as admirers, such as the recently deceased former finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble, the former foreign minister Joschka Fischer or the former interior minister Otto Schiely.

His ex-wife Sibylla Beckenbauer She is also interviewed in the documentary, as are her former partner Diana Sandmand and her brother Walter. Beckenbauer.

However, the former player was unable to be interviewed for a documentary about his life.