Lothar Matthäus

Many players have given Germany to the football world, but there are among them monumental figures that have left a significant mark in the history of world football. Such can be confidently called Lothar Matteus.

Lothar Herbert Matteus was born on March 21, 1961 in the Bavarian town of Erlangen. The boy's family was engaged in the production of sportswear, but Lothar from childhood wanted to become a football player. The only obstacle to making this dream a reality was the growth of the boy. Lothar even accused his mother of having a baby and a weak child.

Matteus did not despair and worked on himself: he did special exercises to grow up a little. Although Lothar did not become tall - his height is 174 cm - "physics" he was able to put excellent. Even against the background of athletic players from Germany, he looked good. Efforts were not in vain and contributed to the professional formation.

Lothar started playing at Borussia Dortmund at the age of 18 and at first justified the advances. His debut professional season was marked by 40 matches and 6 goals for the player. His game number is 10.

With each season Matteus improved and in 1984 was in the main club of Germany - Bayern. Here lothar became a professional master. If before the player allowed himself swings during the match, now he has become a stable player. It was not easy to determine the role of Matteus on the field: he was mobile, picked the ball, defended the goal and at the same moment overlooked the field, handed out assists and scored.

After playing for Bayern, Lothar fully strengthened in the German national team. The player's move to Inter Milan was a logical development of Matteus' career. At that time, Serie A was considered the strongest championship in the world, the best played there.

At the new club Lothar played with Jurgen Klinsmann and Andreas Breme. In his first season, Matteus became the Italian champion with Inter, and after two years won the UEFA Cup.

The end of his career in Italy came with a serious injury, which the successful footballer received in April 1992. Matteus did not play at the European Championships in Sweden because of the incident. Moreover, the injury affected his return to Bayern in 1992.

When the player returned to the Munich club, he gradually retrained as a free defender, playing behind the rest and commanding the defense. The experience, vision of the field and special technique allowed Lothar to play until almost 40 years old. The German Championship and the German Cup, the UEFA Cup - the player's piggy bank continued to pour prestigious awards.

The only thing the player lacked was the Champions League winner's prize. And in May 1999, the football teams Bayern and Manchester United met in the final of the main European tournament. Almost throughout the game, Lothar's team scored, and at the end of the match the player was replaced.

So Lothar only watched as Manchester quickly turned the defeat into victory. The last trophy, never won by the footballer, went to the opponent. A little later Stefan Effenberg commented on this match, saying that having stayed On the pitch then, Bayern would have emerged victorious.

Like the players of those years, Lothar at the end of his career, in 2000 he entered the MLS. But for a long time in the United States to play failed, the reason for this difficult nature of the footballer: not for the first time in his career Matteus quarreled with the head coach. Plus, there was a back injury, and the age of 39 for a footballer is the limit.

As for Matteus' international career, the German footballer made his debut at the age of 19. The first tournament brought him the gold medal of the European Championship. But in that tournament Lothar appeared only once and not very successfully.

At the 1982 World Cup, the player sat on the bench, and only two years later Matteus became a footballer of the foundation of the German national team. In the 1986 World Cup, the Germans reached the final, where they met with the Argentine national team. Before the game Lothar received a difficult task - to take care of Maradona. Diego did not score then, but he co-wrote 3 goals. Twice leaving Lothar's custody, Maradona gave away assists, and the Argentines scored the first goal after a free-kick, which was awarded for a foul by Matteus against Diego.

At the home Of 1988, the Germans reached the semi-finals, but in a dramatic game lost to the Netherlands with a score of 1:2. In 1990, the German national team won its third championship title on the italian margins. The leader and captain of the national team then became Lothar - blocked the middle of the field and was the engine of the team.

And in the final, the German footballer took revenge on the Argentine national team for the loss of four years ago. No doubt Matteus became the best player of this championship. But then the Italian media gave this prize to Salvatore Skillaci, who shone brightly at that tournament, but did not show himself anywhere else. It is unlikely that this moment upset the player or the players of the team.

This victory is the only one for the player in the national team. After all, he did not get to Euro 1996 because of the scandal: the press published his diary, where Lothar exhibited assessments to teammates. Naturally, not all of them were flattering.

After in German football the crisis began, and the national team for a long time remained without victories. Lothar played his last game for the national team at Euro 2000, at the age of 39. That tournament the FGR team failed without leaving the group. But it does not cross the achievements of a truly great footballer.

At the end of his football career, Lothar decided to try himself as a coach, but did not achieve success. He has coached Austrian clubs, worked in Brazil and Israel, as well as with the national teams of Hungary and Bulgaria.

The only success of the coaching career was the exit of Belgrade Partizan in the group stage of the Champions League, when the Serbian team defeated the champion of England "Newcastle". Matteus retired from his coaching career in 2011.

In his youth, Matteus was considered the perfect father and husband, and his family history began simply and beautifully. With his first wife Sylvia Lothar studied at school, and the wedding was played when both were not even 20 years old. His wife gave birth to two daughters, and Lothar gave her a gorgeous yacht, calling her the name of his wife.

But the idyll ended when Matteus met Swiss model, journalist and Egyptologist Lolita Morena. The marriage lasted about 5 years, the couple had a son. After the first divorce, the footballer's parents treated the first wife well, not realizing his son's decision.

During training, Lothar met Marianne, who became his third wife in 2003. At the end of 2007, the divorce was announced, but officially Lothar and Marianne separated only in January 2009, after complex trials.

The fourth wife was Ukrainian model Kristina-Liliana Chudinova, the wedding ceremony was held in Las Vegas.

Matteus is now married five times, and his current wife is model Anastasia Klimko. The couple legalised the relationship in 2014, when the man was 53 and his lover was 25. In April of the same year, the couple had a son Milan, the family lives in Budapest (Hungary). In total, the man has four children.

Today, Lothar is a television host on Sky Sport. The ex-footballer conducts reviews, he is an expert in his field. The man's football biography continues, albeit on a different path.

Lothar Matteus was also actively involved in the 2018 world cup in Russia. On June 3, the ex-footballer delivered the World Cup to Moscow, which returned from a trip to the cities of Russia. A month later, FIFA announced the composition of the commissions that will determine the candidates for the awards.

Matteus was one of those who will choose the contenders for the title of the best football player of the 2017-2018 season.

Lothar Matteus has official social media accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. There, Matteus publishes photos and videos of events from life.

As a player

Bayern Munich

German Premier League: 1985, 1986, 1987, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000 German Cup: 1986, 1998, 2000 UEFA Cup: 1996

Internazionale

Italian Premier League: 1989 UEFA Cup: 1991

Germany national team:

World Champion: 1990 European Champion: 1980

Personal awards

Golden Ball: 1990 Best Football Player for World Football: 1990 FIFA Player of the Year: 1991 IFFHS Player of the Year: 1990 Included in the FIFA 100 list

As a coach

Partizan

Serbia and Montenegro Champion: 2003

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