Death of Franz Beckenbauer: Markus Söder and Bayern coaches remember the football icon at his residence in Munich

“I have known Franz for more than 20 years,” Hainer said during the small, quiet morning ceremony and added: “From a working group a great friendship was born. Franz was an incredibly lovely person. He always tried to meet people all over ‘eye level.” Beckenbauer’s book lies in front of the high altar on a […]

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Monica Seles: How the tennis icon dealt with the attack in Hamburg in 1993

On April 30, 1993 he went down in tennis history. Not for sporting reasons, however, but because that day one of the great careers of the sport came to an abrupt end. The then world number one, Monica Seles, played against Magdalena Maleeva in the quarterfinals at the Rothenbaum in Hamburg. When the score was […]

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