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Friday, 2 September 2016

Football Legends - Franz Beckenbauer

International career

West Germany: 1965 - 1977

103 caps, 14 goals

69 wins; 19 draws; 15 losses

Honours

1974 FIFA World Cup™ winner

1966 FIFA World Cup runner-up

1970 FIFA World Cup third place

1972 UEFA European Championship winner

1976 UEFA European Championship runner-up

Individual

1974 FIFA World Cup Silver Ball

FIFA World Cup appearances

18 caps, 5 goals

14 wins; 1 draw; 3 losses

England 1966

West Germany 5-0 Switzerland (2 goals)

West Germany 0-0 Argentina

West Germany 2-1 Spain

West Germany 4-0 Uruguay (1)

West Germany 2-1 Soviet Union (1)

England 4-2 West Germany

Mexico 1970

West Germany 2-1 Morocco

West Germany 5-2 Bulgaria

West Germany 3-1 Peru

West Germany 3-2 England (1)

Italy 4-3 West Germany

Germany 1974

West Germany 1-0 Chile

West Germany 3-0 Australia

East Germany 1-0 West Germany

West Germany 2-0 Yugoslavia

West Germany 4-2 Sweden

West Germany 1-0 Poland

West Germany 2-1 Netherlands

Club career

1964 - 1977: Bayern Munich

1977 - 1980: New York Cosmos

1980 - 1982: Hamburg

1983: New York Cosmos

Honours

Intercontinental Cup winner: 1976

UEFA European Cup winner: 1974, 1975, 1976

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winner: 1967

German Championship winner: 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1982

North American Soccer League winner: 1977, 1978, 1980

DFB German Cup winner: 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971

Individual

FIFA Order of Merit: awarded in 2004

MasterCard Team of the Century inductee

FIFA 100 inductee

European Footballer of the Year: 1972, 1976

German Footballer of the Year: 1966, 1968, 1974, 1976

North American Soccer League MVP: 1977

Coaching career

Club teams

1990 - 1991 Marseille

1993 - 1994, 1996: Bayern Munich

National teams

1984 - 1990: West Germany

Honours

1990 FIFA World Cup winner

1986 FIFA World Cup runner-up

1994 German Championship winner

1996 UEFA Cup winner

Monday, 5 August 2013

Concerns About West German Doping - Vesper

German officials have demanded publication of a partially leaked study which alleges that West Germany engaged in systematic doping of athletes.

The full scale of sports doping in communist East Germany was revealed after German reunification in 1990.

But now there are concerns that West German officials may have encouraged similar cheating in sports.

Parts of a study of West German doping, by Berlin's Humboldt University, were leaked by German media at the weekend.

According to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, the study says West German state officials sponsored research into performance-enhancing drugs including anabolic steroids, testosterone, oestrogen and EPO.

The programme reportedly became systematic in the early 1970s.

The study, commissioned by the Federal Institute for Sport Science (BISp), was supposed to have been published last year, but that was delayed amid concerns about privacy and legal issues.

The BISp was set up in 1970 under the authority of the interior ministry.

Speaking on ZDF television news, Michael Vesper of the German Olympic Sports Union said "there were apparently research projects by medics, promoted by the BISp with tax funding", but "you can't compare it with doping to order, that is, top-down, by the state".

"We want this report to be handed to us as soon as possible, so that we can assess it," he added.

Some drugs tests were reportedly carried out on minors.

Martin Gerster, sports spokesman for the opposition Social Democrats (SPD), said "what is coming out bit by bit is worse than the worst fears we had - we want the whole truth to come out as soon as possible".

The leaks include a claim that three West German footballers in the 1966 World Cup final squad were found to have traces of ephedrine, a banned stimulant.