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Franz Beckenbauer a member of exclusive World Cup-winning club

Brazilian Mario Zagallo was the first man to achieve the feat of winning the World Cup as a manager having also won it as a player.

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Franz Beckenbauer is one of only three men to have won the World Cup as both player and manager.

Here, the PA news agency takes a look at the members of football’s most exclusive club.

Mario Zagallo

No one man can boast more success at the World Cup than Brazilian Mario Zagallo, who died at the weekend at the age of 92. Zagallo played alongside a 17-year-old Pele in the 1958 final as Brazil won the title for the first of three times in 12 years in 1958 with a 5-2 victory over hosts Sweden, and repeated the feat four years later in Chile, when they beat Czechoslovakia 3-1 in the final. He was in the dugout by the time arguably the greatest side to have graced the competition completed a treble in 1970 with a 4-1 demolition of Italy in Mexico City, and served as assistant to Carlos Alberta Parreira when they got the better of the Italians on penalties at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl in 1994.

Franz Beckenbauer

West Germany skipper Franz Beckenbauer raises the World Cup in 1974
West Germany skipper Franz Beckenbauer raises the World Cup in 1974 (PA)

Didier Deschamps

France head coach Didier Deschamps guided France to a second World Cup triumph in 2018
France head coach Didier Deschamps guided France to a second World Cup triumph in 2018 (Owen Humphreys/PA)
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