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Beckenbauer got €5.5million from the DFB to make sure Germany would get to host the 2006 World Cup and tried to hide it from taxes. Both Beckenbauer and the DFB have said in the past that his role was just honorary, which is bullshit obviously. http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/franz-beckenbauer-hat-vor-der-wm-2006-millionen-honorar-erhalten-a-1112166.html