Franz Beckenbauer; Bobby Moore

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Franz Beckenbauer; Bobby Moore

by Terry O'Neill
bromide print, mid 1970s
11 in. x 15 in. (280 mm x 382 mm) overall
Purchased, 2017
Photographs Collection
NPG x199770

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  • Franz Anton Beckenbauer (1945-2024), Footballer and manager of the German national team. Sitter in 1 portrait.
  • Bobby Moore (1941-1993), Footballer. Sitter in 11 portraits.

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  • Terry O'Neill (1938-2019), Photographer. Artist or producer of 80 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.

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Renowned West German defender Beckenbauer was Moore’s rival in the 1966 World Cup final. The two men shared a mutual respect: Moore lacked Beckenbauer’s pace, but possessed an intuitive ability to read the game and anticipate the next play. Terry O’Neill photographed the two friends engaged in a game of chess, exemplifying Moore’s reputation as a cool and calculated tactician. After Moore’s death from cancer, at the age of fifty-one, Beckenbauer described his former opponent as the ‘best defender in the history of the game’.

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Current affairs

28 people are killed and hundreds injured in the IRA pub bombings. Two pubs in Guilford popular with army personnel were attacked with gelignite bombs, followed by a pub in Woolwich and then two in Birmingham. 17 people, known as the Guilford Four, the Maguire Seven and the Birmingham Six, were arrested for the bombing but all were eventually found to have been wrongfully imprisoned.

Art and science

John Le Carré publishes his classic spy thriller, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The novel was later made into a BBC miniseries starring Alec Guinness.

International

A one party communist state is established in Ethiopia after a committee of military officers known as the Derg depose Halie Selassie from power.
Greek Cypriot officers depose President Archbishop Makarios III in a coup d'etat sponsored by the Greek Government. Taking advantage of the situation, Turkey sent troops to occupy half the island, proclaiming the Turkish Federal State of Cyprus the following year.

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