Kaiser Classics: The Sweeper and the Ballet Dancer

By 1977 Franz Beckenbauer had pretty much won every trophy there is to win in international football and so he decided to broaden his horizons and deepen his pockets and become a teammate of Pele at the New York Cosmos. During his stay there he lived next door to Rudolf Nureyev. Rudolf Nureyev you ask? Isn’t that the famous Russian ballett dancer, who defected to the west, joined the Royal Ballet, changed our perception of male dancers, crossed borders between ballet and modern dance and who later became director of the Paris Opera Ballet? Then I look these things up on Wikipedia and answer: yes, that Rudolf Nureyev. And the two became good friends…

Faculty is Kaiserspeak but I presume you still get what it means.

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