Andreas Brehme around the 1986 World Cup final © Bongarts/Getty Images
Andreas Brehme was the first player from the 1990 World Cup team to die. Anyone old enough remembers the penalty in the World Cup final against Argentina. But Andy (or Andi?) Brehme achieved more than just this winning goal. He was one of the outstanding players in German football history.
Reason enough to give him a classic episode of He can kick, the football podcast from ZEIT ONLINE. “He was a natural talent,” says Oliver Fritsch, one of the hosts, who considers Brehme to be the technically best footballer of the 1990s team. Brehme’s two-footed ability was particularly fascinating. Fritsch and his co-host Christian Spiller can’t think of any player who had or has so much feeling in both feet. So much so that it was impossible to say which was Brehme’s stronger foot and which was the weaker. Who can score standard goals with both feet?
At the same time, Fritsch waxes lyrical about Brehme’s generation of footballers, who learned professions such as car mechanics (Brehme) or interior decorators (Lothar Matthäus), then warns against becoming too nostalgic, only to pay extensive tribute to every player in the 1990 World Cup team.
Also in the podcast: the five best two-footed kickers in the world (after Andy Brehme, of course), Mister X about Klaus Augenthaler and Pierre Littbarski and the answer to the question of where Fritsch and Spiller watched the 1990 World Cup final.
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“He can kick” is the football podcast from ZEIT ONLINE. It appears every two weeks and is dedicated to the best footballers of our time. We talk less about tactics and more about what really matters in football: the individuality of the players. You can find all episodes of the podcast here, all Powercard ratings here. Write us! We accept criticism of the show and suggestions for Mister X at [email protected].
Scenes and texts we discussed in this episode:
– Penalty in the 1990 World Cup final
– The World Cup final in full length
– Round of 16 against the Netherlands in full
– All goals for Inter Milan
Andreas Brehme was the first player from the 1990 World Cup team to die. Anyone old enough remembers the penalty in the World Cup final against Argentina. But Andy (or Andi?) Brehme achieved more than just this winning goal. He was one of the outstanding players in German football history.
Reason enough to give him a classic episode of He can kick, the football podcast from ZEIT ONLINE. “He was a natural talent,” says Oliver Fritsch, one of the hosts, who considers Brehme to be the technically best footballer of the 1990s team. Brehme’s two-footed ability was particularly fascinating. Fritsch and his co-host Christian Spiller can’t think of any player who had or has so much feeling in both feet. So much so that it was impossible to say which was Brehme’s stronger foot and which was the weaker. Who can score standard goals with both feet?
