Franz Beckenbauer considered resigning as 2006 World Cup organizing committee chief in connection with a mysterious payment, a lawyer told a Frankfurt regional court on Thursday during a tax evasion trial against former German football top officials. German Football Federation (DFB) lawyer Jan Olaf Leisner said Beckenbauer, who died in January, considered this move at one meeting because the matter “was getting too much for him.” In the trial, former DFB presidents Wolfgang Niersbach and Theo Zwanziger, as well as ex-DFB secretary general Horst R Schmidt, are charged with tax evasion because t…