Sunday morning we had such beautiful sunshine outside.
I went to the river to play them water birds some Liz Frazer songs. The swans, ducks and seagulls reacted very ecstatic and started to dance on the river, different to each song. Also another to me unknown bird arrived on the tree besides me to check out what is going on. It was a glorious morning, in Germany we call it "Kaiserwetter" - Emperor`s weather, which is said to have its origin in relation to the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I.
Soccer Emperor Franz Beckenbauer at the statue of Franz Joseph I. (foto: Suendhofer/pixathlon)
In the early afternoon I checked a live sport event on my laptop, as the ski-champion lives where my close relatives live too. There I saw an ad for a documentary for next day, Monday evening, about Germany`s biggest soccer figure Franz Beckenbauer.
I thought "Did he die or why they are showing a documentary about him?"
Then on Monday afternoon, in a bookshop, I see a book titled something like "How to feel alive?" I thought "A slap will do the job"...and find this thought so profound to share it with my partner.
Half an hour later the news is out, Franz Beckenbauer had - without knowledge of the TV program planers - indeed died on Sunday morning!
And likely the most famous slap in the history of soccer, was when he was slapped in 26.04.1958 by a Gerhard König (meaning "king") from Club 1860 München which made him decide to not go to this club, but to Bayern Munich instead. And he made this middleclass club to the number 1 club in Germany, dominating the Bundesliga since then.
His nickname was "der Kaiser"- "the Emperor".
On the same Monday also in all Germany farmers were protesting and blocking the streets. Many of them have a side job.(see on the left side: (Interior minister) "Ha-BECK warns about farmer revolution").
Beckenbauer name means bakerfarmer (a farmer who also works as a baker). He had a very strange life.
He was born 1945.09.11, 11:45 pm (He says 11:15 pm) which is 9 days after the end of World War II.
In 1954 he sees the German soccer team as World Champion parading the streets of Munich and starts to have a dream...
1964, 10 years after his dream, with 18 years of age, he starts playing for the 1st team of Bayern Munich, protected by his manager Robert Schwan (another "swan":)).
1966 He plays his first World Championship, because of his goals, Germany makes it into the finale with the famous "Wembley goal".
In 1974, 20 years after his dream, he leads the German team as its captain to be World Champions for the second time, also in Munich.
In 1977 he starts to play with Cosmos NEW YORK (together with Pele).
On his birthday 23 years later, we have 9:11 in NY.
Another 23 years later he is gone.
He was the one who also brought Germany its 3rd World Championship title in Soccer! - This time as its team manager (1990).
Then in 2006 he brought Germany the right to host the World Championship again in Germany.
In the last years they found out he had payed Billions to get the FIFA voting for this. That was also when his firstborn son died (with 46 years, again 23+23). He had three wifes, all of them for exactly 11 years, he seemed to have a magical life, no-one in the game comes close to Franz Beckenbauer’s record of achievement. Both as a player and a coach, the Kaiser has won everything there is to win in world football, but the end was very sad for him.
And right now when reading about him I find (translated):
"It was a big life. It was so big that the news of Franz Beckenbauer's death made many people suffer, as if a close relative had died. It's as if two lives are ending: his - and ours with him.
When Muhammad Ali died, a US television station spontaneously changed the program and showed the documentary about his fight of the century against George Foreman on October 30, 1974 in Zaire: “When we were Kings”. We were all kings, thanks to Ali. We would also have set the alarm clock for Beckenbauer at three in the morning.
We were emperors.
He was our crowned head, the ruler of football and foot soldiers, our first and last authority. “Beckenbauer is so powerful,” the performance artist André Heller (“Circus Roncalli”) once said, “that he could even overthrow governments.” Link
(The star Haunea features prominently in the horoscope of both Muhammad Ali and Franz Beckenbauer, the latter also was interested in astrology, and foresaw his last 10 years of difficulty.)
Already on Sunday I had contemplated on the word "KEN" - as in "BecKENbauer".
Old English cennan ‘tell, make known’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German kennen ‘know, be acquainted with’, from an Indo-European root shared by can1 and know. Current senses of the verb date from Middle English; the noun from the mid 16th century.
The noun meaning “range of sight” is a nautical abbreviation of present participle kenning. But it is also related to the word "KIN", and such relates also "close relatives" and to "King". Also used in the name "Philip KINdred Dick". ("Kindred": A group of related individuals). On Sunday evening I had posted the word play "Philip K(nos) Dick" . Coming sunday, the new king of Denmark will be crowned (10 days after the Prague shootings Dec21, on December 31 Queen Margret announced her stepping down, with another 14 days until Prince Frederik`s coronation...10+14=24).
"I have decided that now is the right time. On 14th January, 2024 – 52 years after I succeeded my beloved father – I will step down as Queen of Denmark. I will hand over the throne to my son Crown Prince Frederik.
Tonight, I first and foremost would like to express my thanks. Thank you for the overwhelming warmth and support which I have received during all these years. Thank you to the changing governments with whom the collaboration always has been rewarding, and thank you to The Parliament, who have always vested their confidence in me.
Thank you to the many, many people who on special occasions and in everyday life have embraced me and my family with kind words and thoughts, turning the years into a string of pearls.
The support and assistance which I have received throughout the years, have been crucial to the success of my task. It is my hope that the new King and Queen will be met with the same trust and devotion which have fallen to my lot..." LINK to her New Year Adress
Remember the Danish band Laid Back, with their 80`s hits "Sunshine Reggae"("Ken" in Celtic: born of fire) and "Bakerman"? Bakerman is baking bread...
THEN also on Monday evening I went to bed with the thought about a rock star who would use powers of a superhero or half god from space, for the creation of his image in the world. In the middle of the night I woke up and saw the new post of Chris Knowles: About David Bowie and how he created Ziggy Stardust! (This pops up amid posts of boxing men(!) and amber).. And did you know, David Bowie was also a pretty good boxer!
Sooo... I was contemplating on these syncs and tried to describe the moment and wrote down the word "looking glass", as for me it is like a unvisible crystal ball in the air, (or disco ball if you want - invented by Andy Warhol, Beckenbauer had a fixed table at studio 45 and got painted by him!) and it reflects all syncs and situtations in different combinations. And then I see them, so many..I google for a picture of a looking glas, a mirror, then walked over to the balcony and exactly at this moment the sun was reflected in a neighbours window so beautiful and as further confirmation two doves appeared and danced right in front of me. I took some fotos, but could cath them only when they disappeared and flew over to the looking glas window house...
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