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Franz Beckenbauer, one among three individuals to win the World Cup as each a participant and coach, died Sunday. He was 78.

“It’s with deep unhappiness that we announce that my husband and our father, Franz Beckenbauer, handed away peacefully in his sleep yesterday, Sunday, surrounded by his household,” his household stated in a press release.

“We ask that you simply permit us to grieve in silence and chorus from asking any questions.”

Beckenbauer, a defender, gained 103 caps for Germany. He was an integral a part of his nation’s 1972 European Championship-winning and 1974 World Cup-winning squads. He took dwelling the 1972 and 1976 Ballon d’Or awards.

Der Kaiser, as he was identified, scored 14 objectives in worldwide play, and a complete of 79 for his golf equipment: Bayern Munich, New York Cosmos, and Hamburger SV.

Beckenbauer managed each Germany — who gained the 1990 World Cup — and Bayern Munich.

“The world of FC Bayern is now not what it was — immediately darker, quieter, poorer,” the membership wrote in a press release.

Mário Zagallo (Brazil), who died earlier this month, and Didier Deschamps (France) are the others who gained the World Cup as each a participant and coach.