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“Grande Lothar”: Ex-world champion Lothar Matthäus celebrates 60. Birthday
The former world champion and television expert Lothar Matthäus (center) with the world Cup trophy in 1990. On Sunday, he celebrates his 60th birthday. Birthday.
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Lothar Matthäus is regarded as one of the best football players of his time. Shortly before his 60th birthday. Birthday-could set up the “Grande Lothar” an eventful career, the crown – with the Job of national coach.
Lothar Matthäus acts completely satisfied. In his active career he won every title that you can win, and after a wild life on the front page of the tabloid Newspapers, it has become quiet around the former world champion. Not least of all, his commitment as a TV pundit at Sky, it is thanks to that the Franke has placed the Image of the living man. A few days before his 60th birthday. Birthday on Sunday, it could run so little better for Matthew. If not for the matter with the Federal government, the trainer would be out of a Job.
World champion as a player – Serbian champion as a coach
Viewed from the outside, one might ask the question: What Matthew wants to? Nothing at all, as he says himself. There are only a few titles in football, which has won the record of the national team. He completed a number of games for his former heart of the club Borussia Mönchengladbach for the big FC Bayern Munich, or something larger Inter Milan. In Italy, the house is crowned master son from the Franconian town of Herzogenaurach, with the world title in 1990, his extraordinary career. This is also why Matthew must have to a long time ago.
However, the approaching withdrawal of Joachim Löw brought him suddenly back in the game. Since it is clear that Löw will stop after the European championship in the summer as a national coach, Matthew indicates multiple willingness to talk. Although he wants nothing more support, he would be in German football, of course, at any time. “I’m someone who will be happy to help. If I had the feeling that those responsible are closed behind it, then I would think,” he said recently at the Sky. If it is so, it remains to be seen. A favorite on the Löw-succession to Matthew anyway, Bayern Coach Hansi Flick.
Almost ten years ago, Matthew has most recently worked as a coach. In comparison to his playing career, his trainer, reading stations, such as a sporty descent: Partizan Belgrade, Atletico Madrid Paranaense, Maccabi Netanya or the national team of Bulgaria are. As a player, Matthew FIFA world player was, as a coach, he won the Serbian championship. It is these differences that distorted the public image of the former Exception-rounder, at least in Germany. While people in Italy worship him today as a “Grande Lothar”, is called a skilled interior decorator in Germany like “‘loddar'”.
Eternal life in the spotlight
You smile still on Matthew, on his Frankish accent, for example, by the Pep Guardiola-influenced style of play Tiki-sounds Taka as “Diggi-Dagga” or an English Club as Tottenham Hotspur sounds like “Doddenhäm”. Be rough English or unintentionally, offhand sayings are some remained in my memory. As the Almost-national coach Christoph Daum stumbled many years ago, about the cocaine-affair, said Matthew following: “the Important thing is that he now brings a clear line in his life.” He said that shortly after his playing career, and the image of the Ex-footballer Matthew took unwanted contours.
He knows all of these things, and your handling of it in Germany. “Boris Becker, Franz Beckenbauer. We all make mistakes, but we Germans are happy, if a celebrity is enter to get caught. This Envy, I don’t like,” he said in the “Kicker”-Interview. Some smile back about the rumors of Matthew as a national coach, where he has not even a Bundesliga trained. However, he has responded in the past few days, only to the questions that were put to him again and again. “Why not, Lothar?”, Franz Beckenbauer said in the “image”. Matthew will not interfere with probably a large in it.
Matthew: “I Have chosen the right way”
He is with himself and his life in the Pure. “You can never achieve anything. Should I say why, I would prefer to become world champion twice? No, I’m healthy, that’s the most Important thing,” he says. “I have chosen the right way.” Where these paths lead to him, he does not know itself. He doesn’t want to do that because he is satisfied. He is heading now to the 60, go, he “calmly with a Smile”. “This is nothing Special for me.” Actually, he would not have been on Sunday in Dubai, this works because of the Corona pandemic but.
Maybe he is 61. Birthday as a national coach to spend. “He has something Big,” said recently Hertha coach Pal Dardai. The 44-year-old Ex-professional needs to know, because he has seen Matthew for almost two years as the national coach of Hungary. “He has the potential to be a winner.”
