'A sporting legend far beyond football' - Beckenbauer tributes

Franz Beckenbauer (centre) team captain of the winning German national soccer team at the 1974 world soccer championship presents the trophy in Munich's, Olympic stadium in Germany, July 7, 1974. Right is the team's goalkeeper Sepp Maier, others are not identified. Germany's World Cup-winning coach Franz Beckenbauer has died. He was 78. - AP

BERLIN (dpa): World football and sports in general has paid tribute to German icon Franz Beckenbauer who died on Sunday at age 78.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach named Beckenbauer "a sporting legend far beyond football" in a statement on platform X, formerly Twitter.