Andreas Brehme, Germany’s hero from the 1990 World Cup final in Rome and former player for Bayern, Inter, Kaiserslautern and Real Zaragoza, died unexpectedly at the age of 63 of a heart attack, his family confirmed after press reports circulated. about.
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Brehme has a particular history in our country. Days before playing in the final of that World Cup, Germany faced the Colombian National Team in the famous 1-1 draw after goals from Pierre Littbarski and Freddy Rincón at the Giuseppe Meazza.
After the famous tie, the Colombian Gildardo Gómez exchanged shirts with the German defender who days later would enter the history of German football.
In 2020, Brehme’s famous jersey was put up for auction by Gómez in the midst of the pandemic. “In these difficult times that humanity is going through, I hope they are well. I am trying to motivate people so that in these difficult times we can help many people with a market or with any economic help.”
The former Colombia National Team player explained: “With all the money collected in the auction we are going to buy markets and all kinds of implements to help the people who need it most in this difficult time that everyone is going through.”
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In his Instagram post he showed the German jersey from that World Cup: “I’m trying to give my jersey for a very special donation. This jersey was the one Andreas Brehme wore when he became world champion in Italia 90 (that model). We had the opportunity. to tie that game with Germany and at the end of the game I changed shirts with Andreas Brehme”.
The auction took place on April 24, 2020 and to enter it each person had to pay 30,000 pesos. The bidding started at 350,000 and days later Gómez thanked the people who collaborated in his beautiful cause and showed the help to the people who needed it.
Death of Brehme
“It is with deep pain that I announce on behalf of my family that my partner Andreas Brehme died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest. We ask in these difficult times that our private sphere be respected,” says a statement from his partner, Susanne Schaefer.
The goal that gave Germany the victory against Argentina, from a penalty, in 1990, is one of the signs that identified Brehme as a player.
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Brehme usually played as a left back – at the end of his career he also played as a libero – and his free kicks with his left foot were fearsome, but, in the 1990 penalty, he decided to shoot with his right foot and it was a goal.
Andreas Brehme is one of the legends of German football. He died this February 20.
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The decision was due to the fact that Brehme – who was ambidextrous – had received a blow to his left foot, despite which he took the penalty that Lothar Matthäus did not want to take, claiming that he did not feel safe because he had had to change his boots and that he was wearing ones that he usually wore only in training.
The second taker was Rudi Völler, who was the one who had received the foul that caused the penalty, and coach Franz Beckenbauer considered that whoever had received the foul should never take a penalty.
At club level, Brehme was German champion with Bayern in 1987 and with Kaiserslautern in 1998. In addition, he won the German Cup with Kaiserslautern in 1996 and the UEFA Cup with Inter in 1961. .
Andreas Brehme was a former German player in the 80s and 90s. He is remembered for scoring the penalty that won the World Cup for his team in the 1990 Italy event. He was the great ‘adventure partner’ of Lothar Matthaus, They shared a dressing room at Inter Milan, winning the Italian scudetto and the Europa League in 1991. He managed to play in the 1994 World Cup in the United States, retiring from the national team in the last game of said World Cup event.
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The title of German champion with Kaiserslautern is especially valuable, since the team achieved it, led by Otto Rehagel, after having been promoted and after having spent a season in the second division when it was relegated just in the year in which it had won the German Cup .
On the day of relegation, Brehme was asked if he would go with Kaiserslautern to second place and he gave an answer that marked the decision of many other of his teammates and that was key to achieving direct promotion again: “Together we have put the car in in the mud and together we are going to get it out.
With the national team he played 86 games and scored eight goals. In 1990 he was one of Germany’s key players, not only because of his goal in the final against Argentina. Already in 1986 he had been in the final, also against Argentina, and had scored, from a free kick, a key goal in the semifinal against France.
Last January, after the death of Franz Beckenbauer, who had been his coach in the national team, Brehme said that he believed that the Kaiser “will form a magical triangle in heaven with Pelé and Maradona.”
Brehme also tried his hand as a coach, but he was far from even approaching the successes he had achieved as a player.
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With information from EFE.