Beckenbauer resolves contract with TV broadcaster Sky on – swissinfo.ch

Franz Beckenbauer will no longer explain Soccer Games for the TV channel Sky. The last controversial football idol solves his contract.

After fierce criticism of his role in the World Cup scandal Franz Beckenbauer finished his work as a football expert for the TV channel Sky. The 70-year-old asked, “not continue indefinitely” cooperation, Sky announced Wednesday evening just before the Champions League first knockout round second leg against FC Bayern Juventus with. The use in the game in Munich should be Beckenbauer’s last TV appearance for the station, it said.

Overall, the world champion had worked from 1974 around 25 years for pay-TV. “I am now 70 years of age, stand in public for over 50 years and am in football – as a player, coach or official -. Traveled dozens of times around the world After so long, I want to treat me a break,” was Beckenbauer cited.

at last he had fallen into the twilight for his involvement in the summer fairytale affair with the German Football Association. So Beckenbauer had prior to the award of the 2006 World Cup in Germany signed a dubious contract with the corrupt World Association vice-president Jack Warner. In addition, a suspect million payment in 2002, which ultimately ended in Qatar ran over one of his accounts.

In addition to the energy around the World scandal Sky also called a “serious personal blow” as the reason for Beckenbauer Retreat. His son Stephan died last year after a long illness. “We respect this wish of Franz Beckenbauer and take him with regret,” Sender Carsten Schmidt said, according to the release.

Beckenbauer farewell to Sky means for the transmitter the second loss of a formative figure of his Football credit reporting within a short time. Marcel Reif, the most famous commentator of Sky, had announced in January, to want to quit in May after the end of the Bundesliga season.