For the 70th birthday of Paul Breitner: Before you scratch, tell me the story

Paul Breitner becomes 70. The World Champion of 1974 and European Champion of 1972 has not only caused a stir on the football field.

I'm sure, says Paul Breitner and laughs, when I lie on the mortality bed, it comes and says, 'Hey Paul, before you scratched, please tell me the story of the penalty!

The story of the penalty is just one of many stories that Broadner's life shaped sustainably. Review. World Cup final 1974, Olympiastadion Munich, Minute 25. Germany is 0: 1 back to the Netherlands, Bernd Wölzbein is fouled in the penalty area.

Breitner snaps the ball, puts him to the point. Piquant: Before the game, national coach Helmut nicely had no shooter. The then 22-year-old remains cool, turns left turned - and becomes a hero. Because Bomber Gerd Müller briefly achieves the 2-1 winner, Germany will be world champion for the second time.

Many years later, Beitner became clear: If I had known what happens to this penalty, I did not shot him, he said in the document Simply Paul of the BR on the occasion of his 70th birthday on Sunday: Because I do not Born am to the hero.

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Breitner, born in the Upper Bavarian Kolbermoor, was not a classic hero. Rather, he polarized, placed. On the lawn as an eccentric with Afro hairstyle and downturn necks, next to the place as a rebel with strong opinion and revoluzer including photo with Mao Bible.

But the successes on the green speak for themselves. European Champion 1972, World Champion in 1974, in addition to the Brazilians Pele, Vava and the French Zinedine Zidane only one of four players who have met in two World Cup end games.

With FC Bavaria, Breitner became the external defender and later as a midfield strategist with exceptional condition five times German masters and twice DFB Cup winner, he won the European Cup of the national master and became a footballer of the year in 1981. In his intermezzo at Real Madrid, he crowned himself twice to the Spanish champion.

Breitner and the Zoff with Hoeneß

It is quite unlikely that Breitner had help from above - even if he removed with the emerited Pope Benedict XVI. Is related. The Holy Father and my mother had the same grandfather, Breitner had said the sid years ago.

After the active career, Beitner often went on the football world on confrontation course, via newspaper columns. Also with his good buddy and former room colleagues Uli Hoeneß. Both spoke after a compensation shortly before the careering for years no word together.

After a (short-term) reconciliation, Breitner worked for ten years until 2017 as a brand ambassador for the record champion. Before the memorable anger press conference of Hoeneß and Karl-Heinz-Rummenigge followed - and Beitner in the program Focus Sport the Bayern bosses criticized violently.

The relationship with Hoeneß is still frosty until today, even if Breitner is Quitt with the club according to its own statement. He talked a bit about his own career, says Rummenigge. But that's just Paul. Paul was always authentic, an exot, a bit crazy, but also always interesting.

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Breitner is engaged in the Munich blackboard

Today, Breitner's focus is elsewhere. With his wife Hilde, with whom he has been married for 50 years, he engaged every Monday at the Munich blackboard. There they have been distributing food to the needy for years. Whether in rain, snow or sun, from 10:00 to 17:00.

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That makes me very happy with my life, says Breitner. And he will certainly tell the story of the penalty from the penalty again and again.