German World Cup winner Toni Kroos has called for more respect for sporting idols in the country during their lifetime in the wake of Franz Beckenbauer’s death on Sunday at age 78. Considered Germany’s greatest footballer, Beckenbauer won many titles with Bayern Munich, where he later also was coach and president, and won the World Cup as a player and a coach. But his image was tainted in later years in connection with dubious payments around Germany’s hosting of the 2006 World Cup of which Beckenbauer was chief organizer. Beckenbauer effectively disappeared from the public eye since then, and…