A summary of the most important stages in the football careers of our columnists Franz Beckenbauer and César Luis Menotti: |
Franz Beckenbauer
|
| 1954 |
Started football career as an amateur with SC Munich 06 |
| From 1958 |
FC Bayern Munich |
| 1964 |
Member of the West German national youth team |
| 09/26/1965 |
First appearance for the West German national team against Sweden: thereafter regular place in the national team for twelve years, 50 games as captain |
| 1966 |
World Cup runner-up in England |
| 1972 |
European Champion in Belgium |
| 1974 |
World Champion in West Germany |
| 1977 |
Move to Cosmos New York
Three-time U.S. Champion with Cosmos |
| 1980 |
Move to SV Hamburg |
| 1982 |
West German Champion (with SV Hamburg):
Beckenbauer "hangs up his boots" |
| 1984 |
Nominated team chief of West German national team |
| 1986 |
World Cup runner-up in Mexico |
| 1988 |
Reached semi-finals in European Championships in West Germany |
| 1990 |
World Cup winner in Italy; thereafter appointed initially trainer then technical director at Olympique Marseille of France. |
| 1991 |
Runner-up in European Champions Cup with Olympique Marseille.
Olympique win French league title. |
| 1991 |
Leaves Marseilles. Continues to work as a representative for various companies and commentates on golf for a German television station. |
| 1992 |
Becomes a vice-president of FC Bayern Munich |
| 1994 |
Interim trainer of FC Bayern Munich until the end of the current season |
| 1994 |
President of FC Bayern Munich |
| 1998 |
Vice-president of DFB German Football Association |
| 1999 |
Voted "German Footballer of the Century" by the International Federation for Football History and Statistics (IFHHS) |
| 2000 |
President of the Classifying Committee of the World Cup 2006
President of the Organizing Committee of the World Cup 2006
The Sports Academy Sofia confers on Franz Beckenbauer a doctorate honoris causa for his social commitment |
César Luis Menotti |
| 1938 |
Born in Argentina
married; 2 sons
university degree chemical science;
hobbies: cars, hunting, music (piano) |
| 1960 |
Started his path as a soccer player with Rosario Central in Argentina
continued with the two Buenos Aires-based top clubs Racing and Boca Juniors
later went to Cosmos New York
played together with Pelé at Santos in Brazil |
| 1971 |
Ended his career as a soccer player with Sao Paulo, Brazil to become coach of Huracan (Buenos Aires),
made Huracan Argentinian League Champion |
| 1974 |
Became coach of the international soccer team of Argentina |
| 1978 |
Won the Football World Cup for Argentina in Buenos Aires |
| 1979 |
Won the Junior World Cup for Argentina in Tokyo |
| 1983 |
Joined Barcelona to win all important titles in Spain:
League's Cup, King's Cup and Super Cup
produced various books, series of articles and films with worldwide distribution; observer and commentator, exclusively for gms, on the soccer world championships in 1986 in Mexico, in 1990 in Italy and in 1994 in the United States |
| From 1986 |
Made Boca Juniors (Buenos Aires) Argentina's League Vice Champion in within a few months |
| From 1987 |
Coached successfully Atlético Madrid in Spain |
| 1989 |
Returned to Argentina to coach top club River Plate in Buenos Aires |
| From 1990 |
Coached Peñarol of Montevideo (Uruguay) |
| From 1991 |
Until the end of 1992 he coached the National Selection of Mexico and classified them for the second preliminary round for the World Championship 1994 in the USA |
| 1992 |
Coaches again Argentina's most popular club, Boca Juniors shortly afterwards coaches another large Argentine soccer club, Independient |
| 1997 |
Returns after coaching Sampdoria in Genoa, Italy for several months, to Independiente |
