“For the future of German football, we need to do different things in training,” the head coach said after Germany exited the World Cup in the group stage for the second time in a ro ...

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By Rory Smith and Andrew Das Franz Beckenbauer, a World Cup winner as a player and a coach who became the defining figure in German soccer for more than half a century, died on Sunday. He was 78.