“Footballers have to help each other out. Everybody must give his best in pursuit of common goals - not individual ones. This has been the German approach through our football history.”

German football pundit and former player and manager

Lothar Matthaus is a German former professional footballer, manager and pundit. He is best known for captaining West Germany to victory at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, and for winning the Ballon d'Or. In 1991, Matthaus became the first FIFA World Player of the Year, and he remains the only German to have won the award. He was later included in the Ballon d'Or Dream Team in 2020, recognition of a long career at the top level of the game.