Warm tributes for Beckenbauer on 60th birthday
11th Sep 2005, 11:31 GMT
FRANKFURT, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Franz Beckenbauer, a man long known simply as the Kaiser, was additionally hailed as an icon, an ambassador and soccer's shining light as he turned 60 on Sunday.
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