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Franz Beckenbauer hailed Uwe Seeler as “my oldest friend and my best one” as the tributes continued to pour in Friday for the former West Germany striker who died the previous day at age 85. There was also a first call to name the stadium of his club life-long SV Hamburg after him. “He always supported me when I came to the national team at young age. Just like he helped everyone in his entire life,” the 76-year-old Beckenbauer told the Bild paper. “There is no other such great person like Uwe.” Beckenbauer and Seeler played together at the 1966 and 1970 World Cups and both scored in the famou…