” You describe the next step in the development of football as the invention of the sweeper or ‘libero’ in the form of Franz Beckenbauer. He called Beckenbauer an "inspired player” and praised his “invulnerability” in duels on the field.“ He was full of admiration for this player’s delicate ball control - and actually tried to demonstrate some of Beckenbauer’s finesses to his astonished interlocutor. He did not succeed however, because Heidegger still under the impact of an international soccer match, preferred to talk about Franz Beckenbauer. The then director of the Freiburg theater met Heidegger on a train one day and tried to conduct a conversation with him on literature and the stage. During the legendary match between Hamburg and Barcelona, he knocked a teacup over in his excitement. He would go to a neighbour’s house to watch European Cup matches on television. “Heidegger by then was a venerable old gentleman, and his former brusqueness and severity had mellowed with the years. Rüdiger Safranski’s Martin Heidegger - Between Good and Evil (1998): HEIDEGGER AND BECKENBAUER THE EXISTENTIALIST LIBERO
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