
A German newspaper says former soccer great Franz Beckenbauer has had open-heart surgery and received at least one bypass. Beckenbauer's management team has not responded to a request for comment on his health following a report in the mass-circulation Bild newspaper. Beckenbauer left for a clinic in southern Germany on Friday, one day after his home in Salzburg, Austria, had been searched by authorities acting on a request by Swiss prosecutors.
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