Tributes have poured in after Andreas Brehme, the scorer of the goal that won West Germany the 1990 World Cup, died on Tuesday morning at the age of 63. The left-back was a Bundesliga winner with Kaiserslautern and Bayern Munich and won the Scudetto with Internazionale.
“I can’t believe it,” Brehme’s former international teammate Rudi Völler said. “The news of Andreas’s sudden death makes me incredibly sad. Andi was our World Cup hero, but for me he was much more. He was my close friend and companion to this day. I will miss his wonderful love of life.”
