Talking Fussball Special - Uli Hesse joins the pod to talk about his new biography of Franz Beckenbauer

He's a football legend, a tabloid mainstay, a prodigious teller of tall tales and a symbol of postwar Germany itself. Franz Beckenbauer is the biggest name to ever emerge from the Bundesliga, and it's appropriate that Uli Hesse, the man who wrote the book on the league (Tor! - if you haven't read it, drop everything and start) should take on the task of writing a new biography of him. It's called The Three Lives of the Kaiser, and the author is on the pod this week to talk with Nik Wildhagen about it... --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/talking-fussball/support