Per Stefano Benni the left back, by dint of marking the opponent’s 7, in football once equipped with fantasiadribbling skills and intoxicating feints, ended up taking on his characteristics over time. Andreas Brehme said Andy, who passed away today at the age of 63 due to cardiac arrest, perfectly expressed this theory: a lot of running, meticulous in defense and a curse for his fellow opposing defenders when he decided to attack, using right and left in the same way, and very well at that. Thanks to the father, Bernda former footballer who exhaustingly trains him to handle the ball with both feet: it seems that in his youth he was not so “delicate”, so much so that he earned the nickname, evergreen in Germany, of “Eisenfussâ, âiron feetâ.
He shared that nickname with his colleague Jurgen Kohler, who however carried it throughout his career unlike Andy. And with Kohler he also shares the alternative profession to football: he studies as a mechanic, but it soon becomes clear that he won’t have to fix cars for a living. Already at the age of fifteen in fact Barmbek he shows himself to be an extraordinary footballer: he is fast, he kicks well, but above all he has stamina capable of making him play even two games in one day, and then he has the character of a leader, coming out in the decisive moments of the races. Dream aboutHamburg and in an audition, to tell the truth, he would even earn the team’s shirt Hanseatic trimming feints and tunnels left and right, but this one does it appear presumptuous and therefore Brehme’s career continues to Saarbrucken in Serie B. Thanks to the excellent season he earned the call to the German Under 21 national team and above all that of Kaiserlslautern in Bundesligacarrying out excellent seasons both in Germania than in European cups.
Meanwhile, the call to the national team also arrives with which he participates in the European Championships of 1984 and you have 1986 World Cupwhere he scored a very important goal, against France in the semifinals. Kaiserslautern scales back its ambitions and Brehme moves on to the most ambitious Bayern, but he will have the opportunity to make up for it with the red devils. He wins immediately Bundesliga and a wonderful understanding is born with your partner Lothar Matthaus who will say of him “Brehme is the strongest footballer I have played with†. Yet he doesn’t connect with Bayern Heynckes who uses it in practically all roles. After the final lost with Porto and the relationship with the increasingly worsening technician Andy passes toPellegrini’s Inter in 1988finding his friend again Matthaus who had advocated its purchase. The Trap he senses that Brehme is devastating starting from the back, and in fact in that role the German becomes a pillar of the record-breaking Inter team that wins the 13th Scudetto: in the Nerazzurri, together with Lothar Matthaus and Jurgen Klinsmann will also win one Italian Super Cup and the UEFA Cup, and in Italy it will also become World Champion in 1990winning the final against Argentina by scoring the decisive penalty (kicked with the right). In 1992 he moved to Spain Zaragoza but the year is negative, returning to Kaiserslautern instead he found very high levels by incredibly winning the Bundesliga in 1998, with the newly promoted team. Having hung up his boots, he attempted a career as a coach, but once he abandoned playing football the problems began: the divorce from first wife, an investigation for drunk driving, economic problems that lead him to lose everything he had earned in his career. He also mobilizes for him Franz Beckenbauer, inviting the federation to lend him a hand: Bayern therefore comes to offer him a position as an observer which gives him peace of mind. He passed away today, after a cardiac arrest during the night, news confirmed by mate who asked for confidentiality and respect for the privacy of family.