Vincent Kompany pays tribute to Franz Beckenbauer
Clarets boss Vincent Kompany believes that Franz Beckenbauer was the complete player has he paid tribute to the German international.
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00:00 I'm not supposed to laugh, but it is the gold standard. You can't say that.
00:05 Franz Beckenbauer is...
00:07 If you define the role of a centre-back and everything he should be able to do,
00:14 it's Franz Beckenbauer.
00:15 Not just, obviously, the player himself, but the leadership he's had,
00:20 the fact that he was a visionary as a player, but also beyond his playing career.
00:25 I was lucky to meet him a few times.
00:29 And one of the times, typical me, was in a hospital where he was getting treatment
00:33 of the same doctor as me. But, yeah, I think it's sad news, but at the same time,
00:42 it gives everyone as well the chance to celebrate his legacy and what he's done in his career.
00:48 Reading the game, intercepting, obviously distribution, but also stepping in,
00:55 scoring goals. That's why I say he was the complete centre-back.
01:00 As much as we're trying to re-educate a lot of centre-backs to be able to be comfortable
01:09 on the ball, he did it in an era where it was almost... I'm not going to say it was rare,
01:19 but it was an era where we wouldn't maybe associate it to it. Just a fantastic player.
01:24 Even though I've not seen him play live, obviously, I've looked for a lot of footage
01:30 clips from his career and I always knew he was the reference.