Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup as a player and coach with West Germany, refused to disclose who he voted for but maintained he was neither offered nor accepted any financial inducements or gifts.
'Nobody offered me anything in order to influence my vote. No. This did not happen,' Beckenbauer said through a translator in London. 'As far as the vote is concerned I can't say anything because it was a secret ballot and I have to observe this agreement made at the time.'
