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German Football League (DFL) CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke has named Franz Beckenbauer, who died on Sunday, “definitely the greatest German footballer of all time.” Watzke, who is also Borussia Dortmund CEO also named Beckenbauer “one of the greatest people I ever met.” “Every single experience I had personally with Franz was wonderful. I can still remember that I had goosebumps all over my body when he offered me to call him by his first name after our German championship in 2010-2011. “You can really only bow down to what Franz Beckenbauer has done for Germany and German football,” Watzke said aft…

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