Leverkusen head coach Xabi Alonso said Franz Beckenbauer was as good as Pele, Maradona and Cruyff as a player.
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00:00 He's not another player.
00:01 He's, you know, they are the icons, the legends,
00:04 that they are players that they have their own dimension
00:09 or their own magnitude, like, you know, Pelé, Cruyff,
00:13 Maradona, Beckenbauer, he was one of those, no?
00:16 You, from since we were childs,
00:19 we used to see images from him,
00:22 and I was, I had the chance to meet him a few times
00:26 when I was in Munich, and, you know,
00:27 he was very important for the club,
00:31 for the German football, as a player,
00:34 as a manager, as a personality, so really sad,
00:39 but, you know, he deserves all the credit that he's getting.
00:43 For sure, today, he's having a nice one in Munich,
00:46 and for the coming ones, that with the national team,
00:49 he will be remembered, you know?
00:51 He won't be forgotten, for sure,
00:53 because he was so, so, so big, so influential,
00:56 that it is sad, but we have to be happy
01:00 that we had so big personalities in Furman,
01:04 in football, and Beckenbauer is one of the chosen ones.
01:09 There are not many, no more than 10, I would say.