Lothar Matthäus

oh, I know that.

So when I grew up, it was that inter-team, you know, of Bergami, Zenger, Bertie, Serena, but also as well, obviously with the league winning title, it had Bremer, who I was lucky enough to interview, and Lothar Matthäus and Klinsmann afterwards.

I've also had Klinsmann on the podcast.

So I've got two out of the three Germans, but Matthäus is the one.

Yes, they were.

Lothar Matthäus walking off the pitch, like clapping his hands, Sammy Kufur boxing the grass.

It's like, I brought it up a couple of years ago and to say it was met with solemn tones.

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He was there.

Yeah.

because Lothar Matthäus never won the Champions League he lost in 87 the poor old business was his crowning they were giving him his round of applause we've really gone off

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I had Dieter Heines, who whilst getting on, probably just over the hill, but still quality.

And I had a young Lothar Matthäus in midfield, who, you know, you could see that even like now watching back, I was obviously, as a kid, you don't appreciate all that kind of thing.

But I've watched the game back a few times and you can just see the quality shining through from him.

he has um oh what a player yeah one of the greatest to ever play in a pitch but um he has a young winger called ludwig kergel and all i remember of him was being i remember reading the echo before the the away game which weirdly i don't know if anyone's noticed this but by and war two different kits for the two legs

Because they had a similar game.

Yeah, when they called him Stoichkov and Lothar Matthäus.

He was brilliant.

Yeah, he

Starting with Emil Herge, who I think we'll speak a wee bit more of throughout this podcast.

Jurgen Kohler, Butch Wall, Bertolt, Pierre Lerbarski, Lothar Matthäus, Olaf Thorn, Andries Bremer, Rudi Voller, Jurgen Klinsmann, Italy.

uh walter zengo sorry zenga you've got berezi bergami ferry a young paulo maldini donna doni de napoli um the roma playmaker um giuseppe giannini carlo ancelotti and um sam doria's roberto mancini and gianluca viale up front names that can trip off the tongue now as i said gary but um for the casual viewer in 1988 a lot of introductions there

Yeah, and you kind of see this most markedly when the camera on some of the highlights videos, they spend an enormous amount of time on kind of pre-match ceremonies and kind of Helmut Kohl shaking hands with the German team and anthems and all of this.

Italy, in this case, the better team in the first half, I think it's probably fair to say, the two best chances, but nothing really came about until the second.

And our friend Rob Hagret and...

Who doesn't escape most of the blame here is Lothar Matthäus who did not cover himself in glory at all.

He really kind of I think starts it for one of a better primary school phrase but he does he sets that chain reaction going.

And if you look at kind of the iconic German players, they tend to fit to that team mold.

Think of someone like Lothar Matthäus, right? Or the last German player to win the Ballon d'Or, Matthias Sammer.

It isn't the kind of the glittery, shiny, like soloist.

It's more of the,