Manager: Beckenbauer has answered questions in FIFA probe

"For your information: The FIFA ethics commission this afternoon received the answers of Franz Beckenbauer to all their questions via mail and fax," Beckenbauer's manager Marcus Hoefl wrote on Twitter.

FIFA provisionally suspended the German icon for 90 days last week because he had not responded to questions from investigator Michael Garcia, who is probing corruption allegations in connection with the 2010 vote to grant the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar.

Beckenbauer was a member of the deciding FIFA executive committee at the time. He captained and coached Germany to World Cup titles and is now Bayern Munich honorary president.

FIFA said Tuesday that Beckenbauer was the only official who did not respond in the probe.

He will now hope that his suspension is lifted. The suspension does not allow him to visit matches of the World Cup in Brazil.

English news reports in recent weeks suggested that former FIFA top official Mohammed Bin Hammam aimed to buy Asian and African votes for his home country of Qatar. They also said that Beckenbauer was invited twice to Qatar by Bin Hammam.

Beckenbauer has dismissed corruption allegations. He said he didn't answer Garcia's question because he didn't understand the English legal terms.

Munich president Karl Hopfner told the website of the Bild paper that "We, FC Bayern, fight the suspension and are united behind Franz Beckenbauer. He is and will remain our honorary president - without ifs and buts.

"Such a behaviour against a person like Franz Beckenbauer, on who whom FIFA has heaped praise and awards for years, is not acceptable."