Franz Beckenbauer to be honoured at UEFA EURO 2024 opening ceremony

UEFA will honour late German football icon Franz Beckenbauer at the UEFA EURO 2024 opening ceremony on Friday. The opening ceremony will take place before the opening match between Germany and Scotland at the Munich Football Arena.

Bernard Dietz (1980) and Jurgen Klinsmann (1996), Germany's two Euro Cup winners along with Beckenbauer’s wife Heidi will be present at the ceremony and they will bring the Henri Delaunay Cup – the trophy which will be presented to the winners after the final in Berlin on 14 July- on to the pitch.

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Beckenbauer captained West Germany to the 1972 UEFA Euro Championship and 1974 FIFA World Cup success as a player while he also coached them to the 1990 FIFA World Cup success.

The Bayern Munich legend also three successive European Cups between 1974 and 1976 along with five Bundesliga titles for the German team. He also won the two Ballon d'Or awards as a defender, which is a quite remarkable feat.

Beckenbauer passed away in January aged 78 leaving all the records he made on the football field.