by On January 2, the consortium of German public broadcasters (ARD) will premiere a documentary dedicated to one of the country’s historical idols, Franz Beckenbauer, who will bear the same name as the illustrious former footballer, ‘Beckenbauer’.
It reviews the brilliant career of the former great star of Bayern Munich and the German national team, but it also talks about the current situation of the myth. “If I said now that it’s okay, I would lie and I don’t like to lie. It doesn’t feel good. It is a constant up and down,” his brother Walter states bluntly in the documentary.
Some statements that reaffirm the information published a few days ago by the German newspaper ‘Spiegel’ in which they stated that Franz has suffered “significant deterioration” and that any shock could pose a “serious” risk to the unstable health of the ‘Kaiser’.
At 78 years old, Franz Beckenbauer has retired from public life, lives in Austria, and will not even appear in the documentary in which he stars. His health appears to have been worsening in recent months.after not being able to attend the World Cup in Qatar due to an “eye attack”, as he himself explained then, in one of his last public interventions.
