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That is the biggest project of my entire life

That is the biggest project of my entire life.”Bigger than lifting the World Cup as a player and a manager? “Winning a World Cup as a player is very difficult,” Beckenbauer said. “And winning it as a manager is even more demanding, because you are in charge not just of your own performances, but of the whole team, from the players to the medical staff. Golf came into his life 20 years ago, and Beckenbauer addresses the ball as elegantly as he once passed it. “I enjoy the game,” said the 60-year-old, whose fourball, which included Frankie Dettori and Thomas Bjorn, had just finished joint second in the pro-am tournament at the Dubai Desert Classic on Wednesday. “It helps me relax.”Beckenbauer needs all the downtime he can get.

Aside from his part-time duties as global sporting ambassador for Emirates, the Dubai-based airline who are also one of the major sponsors of the next World Cup, Beckenbauer is the lifetime chairman of his beloved Bayern Munich, a member of the Fifa executive and, most significantly of all, the president of Germany’s 2006 organising committee.”It’s tough,” he smiled, “although, after you have played against Pele and Sir Bobby Charlton, nothing can possibly faze you.” How, though, does he manage to fulfil all his various roles? “Actually,” he explained, “everything else comes second to the next World Cup. Timing is the reason he was the best ever libero, a World Cup-winning captain, a World Cup-winning manager, and now a World Cup-winning bidder Timing is what makes Beckenbauer tick.
And swing. Some words, just like the footballers they define, are universal. Gentleman has become synonymous with Brazil’s Pele, cool with England’s David Beckham, and magical with France’s Zinedine Zidane But timing belongs to Germany’s Franz Beckenbauer. Timing. Just to show there were no hard feelings, Gerson has appeared on television tearing up the list in anger.The list contains anomalies galore and, obviously, one’s approach to it is utterly subjective.

When it was noted that Wales did have not have one representative, we thought how sad it was that John Charles died just too soon to be included Now we discover that Charles was not on the list anyhow That is the most unforgivable omission of all All that Viagra must have gone to Pele’s head.. No more so than in his native Brazil, where he failed to anoint two of his fellow stars from the 1970 World Cup-winning side, Gerson and Jairzinho. There is no longer any excuse not to do so.Pele a proper charlie over CharlesIt probably seemed a good idea at the time, but when Fifa asked Pele to help mark their centenary by choosing the world’s top 100 living players they were guaranteeing themselves a place among the 100 worst own goals.Apart from the fact that when the great man unveiled his choice at a shambolic press conference at the Royal Academy on Thursday he produced 125 names, his selection ignited worldwide indignation. Certainly it would do our London 2012 bid no harm at all if the country who gave football to the world announced its intention to enter the Olympics at last. GB’s four home unions have for years steadfastly refused to enter the Olympic competition, which is for Under-23 teams, because they fear that it would lead to the rest of the world demanding that we be forced to play under one flag in all tournaments.As a result, generations of our brightest footballers have been denied a chance of Olympic glory – and our players seem at their best at that age – because of this attitude, which is part cowardice and part self-preservation.Now that Blatter has given his blessing, what is to stop us entering a team for the Beijing Games of 2008? No doubt the clubs will complain about losing players, but that will be nothing new.