I remember reading a pretty good story about Beckenbauer in Bobby Charlton's autobiography (The England Years).

He says before the 1966 WC Final, Alf Ramsey came up to him and asked him to man mark Beckenbauer throughout the game. Charlton was a bit miffed at the idea because he wouldn't be able to play his normal, attacking game, but he agreed anyway. Ramsey had said that if Germany were going to win the game, Beckenbauer would win it for them and he needed his best player to stop their best player from dictating the game for West Germany.

Anyway, as the players were taking up their positions ready for kick off, he said he was standing to the left side of the centre circle (I think, it's been a few years since I've read it). Beckenbauer lined up directly opposite him, and they looked at each other. Charlton said in that moment he knew they'd both just realised they'd been asked to man mark the other.

I thought that was great, that they'd both been asked to sacrifice their normal game in order to stop the other team's most creative player from being able to dictate the game. He said a similar thing happened before the game in the 1970 WC as well.