They gained promotion two years later, fielding a team with young talents like Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, and Sepp Maier — who would later be collectively referred to as the axis.

Italy would then lose a tight semifinal to Argentina, due in no small part to a similar strategy from Carlos Bilardo, who then went on to lose the final to a much more offensive-minded Germany led by Franz Beckenbauer.

On 25 September, it was announced by Franz Beckenbauer that an agreement had been reached, and the expansion to 24 teams would be officially announced the next day.

After West Germany's 1990 World Cup win, with assistant Berti Vogts taking over as the national team coach, the retiring Beckenbauer infamously predicted that the German team, with additional former East Germans to choose from, would be invincible for years to come.

He passed the ball from his position at centre-half in the same way that Franz Beckenbauer would do later.

Pizarro later rejected a contract extension offered by Bayern chairman Franz Beckenbauer, demanding an increase in pay which angered Karl-Heinz Rummenigge who was quoted saying that " Anyone wishing to earn as much as Shevchenko had better start playing like Shevchenko.

Although both well past their prime by the time they joined the NASL, the two were considered to have previously been the best attacking ( offensive ) ( Pelé ) and defensive ( Beckenbauer ) players in the world.

Many notable international soccer players have played in American leagues, including past greats Pelé, Giorgio Chinaglia, Eusébio, Hristo Stoichkov, Roberto Donadoni, George Best, Carlos Valderrama, Johan Cruyff, Lothar Matthäus, and Franz Beckenbauer and current stars David Beckham, Thierry Henry, Robbie Keane and Freddie Ljungberg.

Despite popular opinion the substitution did not change the game as Franz Beckenbauer had scored before Charlton left the field, hence Charlton had failed to cancel out the German.

" We came back into the game and scored two lucky goals, so in the end we were the winners but we were very, very lucky ", stated Franz Beckenbauer.

Franz Beckenbauer then hit a low shot under the body of Bonetti, who had been slow to react.

The Germans had hope now, especially when Beckenbauer became more liberated in the game with Ramsey's decision to substitute Bobby Charlton.

The club had its period of greatest success in the middle of the 1970s when, under the leadership of Franz Beckenbauer, it won the European Cup three times in a row ( 1974 – 76 ).

Memorably, Franz Beckenbauer remained on the field even with a dislocated shoulder, his arm in a sling strapped to his body, as West Germany had used up their two allowed substitutions.

Pelé's compatriot, former Brazil captain Carlos Alberto was signed in 1977, at the same time as Franz Beckenbauer, who had captained the 1974 FIFA World Cup-winning West German national team.

Supporters were complimented in Europe, especially by Franz Beckenbauer, who said he had never witnessed such great ambiance from away-supporters and that Premier League clubs had never seen so many away-fans at a club-match ( 4, 500 ).

Bayern Munich had Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, Paul Breitner and Sepp Maier on their side while Mönchengladbach had Berti Vogts, Herbert Wimmer, Jupp Heynckes and Günter Netzer himself.

However, Johnston had filmed Franz Beckenbauer using the boots in Germany in snowy conditions, and its increased grip led to Adidas agreeing to the proposal.

This was especially true when Johan Cruyff was playing in DC and NYC had Pele, Beckenbauer and Girgio Canaglia.

Hailed in the press as the " Serbian Beckenbauer ", he had a remarkably good disciplinary record and strong technique, being known for his reading of the game and flair for an incisive pass.

According to German footballing legend Franz Beckenbauer, Mondragón had been the best goalkeeper of the first round.

Germany's Franz Beckenbauer fractured his clavicle after being fouled, but stayed on the field carrying his dislocated arm in a sling, as his side had already used their two permitted substitutions.

The final turned out to be one of Charlton's quieter days ; he and a young Franz Beckenbauer effectively marked each other out of the game.

Beckenbauer pulled a goal back for the Germans and Ramsey replaced the ageing and tired Charlton with Colin Bell who further tested the German keeper Maier and also provided a great cross for Geoff Hurst who uncharacteristically squandered the chance.

Football legend, former FC Bayern President and DFB Vice-President, Franz Beckenbauer, on the other hand, showed his support for Stoiber by letting him join the German national football team on their flight home from Japan after the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

The other four are Uwe Seeler, Franz Beckenbauer, Lothar Matthäus and Bettina Wiegmann.

It was the same with Pelé, Beckenbauer and Cruijff.

Lev Yashin ’ s FIFA testimonial match was held at the Lenin Stadium in Moscow with 100, 000 fans attending and a host of football stars, including Pelé, Eusébio and Franz Beckenbauer.

West German manager Franz Beckenbauer became the only man to both captain ( in 1974 ) and manage a World Cup winning team, and only the second man ( after Mário Zagallo of Brazil ) to win the World Cup as a player and as team manager.

Cruyff's playmaking influence was stifled in the second half of the match by the effective marking of Berti Vogts, while Franz Beckenbauer, Uli Hoeneß, and Wolfgang Overath dominated midfield, enabling West Germany to win 2 – 1.

In 1977 Franz Beckenbauer left for New York Cosmos and in 1979 Sepp Maier and Uli Hoeneß retired while Gerd Müller joined the Fort Lauderdale Strikers.

Success returned when Franz Beckenbauer took over for the second half of the 1993 – 94 season, winning the Championship again after a four-year gap.

Beckenbauer was then appointed club president.

Franz Beckenbauer briefly returned at the end of the 1995 – 96 season as caretaker coach and led his team to victory in the 1995 – 96 UEFA Cup, beating Bordeaux in the final.

Back at Marseille, Cantona initially played well under coach Gerard Gili and his successor Franz Beckenbauer.

However, the Marseille chairman Bernard Tapie was not satisfied with the results, and replaced Beckenbauer with Raymond Goethals ; Cantona was continually at odds with Goethals and Tapie and, despite helping the team win the French Division 1 title, he was transferred to Nîmes the following season.

The biggest club in the league and the organization's bellwether was the New York Cosmos, who drew upwards of 40, 000 fans per game at their height while aging superstars Pelé ( Brazil ) and Franz Beckenbauer ( Germany ) played for them.

If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.

When I informed her that I didn't, she said she would borrow her brother's and bring it to me later that evening.

In the spring, it must have been, he began working on the play that he called The House, which later would be Mannerhouse.

it was demonstrated, many critics would later point out, in the length of his novels.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

Only '' a New York hick would expect to find the literary life in Greenwich Village, at any point, later than Walt Whitman's day.

Even though he would later be resurrected, he was at this moment dead indeed, the expression on his face reflecting what he had gone through on the cross.

Watson had nodded absently and muttered that he would check the lists himself later.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

We would attend a film and, later on, I stated, we might go to the Mayflower Coffee Shop or Child's or Toffenetti's for waffles.

Indeed, we should say, on the contrary, that the accident of our later discovery made no difference whatever to the badness of the animal's pain, that it would have been every whit as bad whether a chance passer-by happened later to discover the body and feel repugnance or not.

Unfortunately she returned later, just as I had taken advantage of the friendlier atmosphere in the room by stating that perhaps an unexpected result of the Cultural Exchange Program would be the re-emergence of Abstract Art in Russia, with Social Realism regaining dominance in the U.S..

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

`` If there was collusion between an outside murderer and a member of the household it would be an elementary precaution to check on the door later.

He did not bother with his radio -- there would be time for that later -- but as he scrambled out on the pavement he saw the filling station and the public telephone booth and knew instantly how he had been summoned.

Both figures would go higher in later years.

This might be done to arouse those who have been squeezed out by the trims to exert pressure on the Legislature, so it would be more receptive to a tax proposal later in the year.

It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.

The roar of Palmer's gallery as he sank a thrilling putt would roll out across the parklike landscape of Augusta, only to be answered moments later by the roar of Player's gallery for a similar triumph.

he would look right through you while you were talking to him, and if you said, `` For Christ's sake, Donald, you've got Prussian blue all over your shirt '', he would smile, and nod, and an hour later the paint would be all over his pants as well.

A half hour later he got her up to go out for breakfast so the Ferraros, hearing them hurrying down the stairs, would think they were going to a late mass.