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Germany tennis legend Boris Becker has named the death of Franz Beckenbauer a shock and said the nation’s football icon had been a role model for him. “I knew he wasn’t feeling well but I didn’t know that he would die on Sunday. Therefore it was a huge shock for me and my family,” Becker told reporters on Wednesday. “Germany has lost a very great man,” the three-time Wimbledon champion and former world number one said of Beckenbauer who died at age 78. Becker named Beckenbauer a role model “for his human, but also very successful manner – in football and in his second career as a coach and his…

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