Lothar Herbert Matthäus born 21 March 1961 may be a German soccer manager and former player. when captaining the European nation to finish within the 1990 FIFA World Cup wherever he upraised the planet Cup trophy, he was named European player of the Year. In 1991, he has named the primary ever FIFA World Player of the Year and remains the sole German to possess received the award.
Matthäus command the record of getting compete in 5 FIFA World Cups (1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998), quite the other parcel of land player in restroom soccer, till the 2018 World Cup, during which Mexico’s Rafael Márquez equaled his record in a very 1–0 finish over the Federal Republic of Germany, and holds the record for the foremost World Cup matches compete by one player (25 games). He was the captain of the West German team that won the 1990 World Cup in the European nation and conjointly was captain of the German squad within the 1994 World Cup within us. He conjointly won UEFA monetary unit 1980, and compete within 1984, 1988, and 2000 UEFA European Soccer Championships. In 1999, aged 38, he was once more voted German player of the Year, having antecedently won the award in 1990.Matthäus is that the most capped German player of all time, retiring with a complete of a hundred and fifty appearances (83 for West Germany) in twenty years, and twenty-three goals. Matthäus may be a member of the FIFA one hundred lists of the best living soccer players chosen by Pelé. Diego Maradona aforesaid of Matthäus, “he is that the best rival I’ve ever had. I assume that is enough to outlive him”, in his book Yo soy el Diego (I am the Diego).
A versatile and complete player, Matthäus is considered one among the best midfielders of all time and was noted for his perceptive passing, point sense, well-timed confronting, yet as powerful shooting. throughout his career, he sometimes competes as a box-to-box midfielder, though late in his career he competes as a sweeper
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