The German football federation opened legal proceedings against Franz Beckenbauer, former members, and FIFA in a bid to limit potential damages arising from the 2006 World Cup corruption affair. The DFB told The Associated Press in a statement on Friday that it has ''taken the necessary measures to prevent a possible limitation of claims'' that it can make against former head of the German World Cup organizing committee Beckenbauer and his then vice-president Fedor Radmann, former DFB presidents Theo Zwanziger and Wolfgang Niersbach, former DFB general secretary Horst R. Schmidt, the executors of the late Robert Louis-Dreyfus' estate, together with FIFA. More...