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Matthaeus bids Bundesliga bye
BERLIN. Mar 5 I Reuters/API: Lothar Matthaeus would have willingly accepted any . — other Bundesliga
farewell than Saturday's 2-0 defeat by VfB Stuttgart.
The 38-year-old veteran. bound for New York-New’ Jersey MetroStars next week, suffered on a snowy afternoon.
His foul on Krisztlan Lisztes enabled Krassimir Balakov to open the scoring from a free kick in the 50th minute.
He had been substituted and had left the pitch to loud applause from a packed Stuttgart stadium when Lisztes added Stuttgart's second in the 69th minute.
Before the start Matthaeus received a gift from Stuttgart defender Thomas Berthold. His teammate in Germany's 1990 World Cup-winning side gave him a shirt displaying all the colours he has sported in his prolific career — Borussia Moenchengladbach. Inter Milan. Germany, and. naturally. Bayern.
Matthaeus. a teenager when he made his Bundesliga debut for Moenchengladbach in 1979. will make one more appearance for Bayern when they host Real Madrid in the Champions League on Wednesday.
Tye had plenty of time to get ready for this." he said after Saturday's match. "My real farewell is on Wednesday at the Olympic stadium.
"But there are a lot of things I will miss, like the German stadiums. the fans and the atmo -sphere."
The game was his 464th Ln the German first division and his 302nd for the Bavarian side. He has scored 121 Bundesliga goals, 85 for Bayern.
Matthaeus helped the superior force In German soccer to six league crowns, (wo German Cups and 1996 UEFA Cup victory. He wore the captain's armband for four seasons and was on the losing side in two
European Cup finals, in 1987 and 1999.
After Bayern celebrated its centenary last Sunday. Sport Bild issued a list of the club's top 100 personalities.
Matthaeus came third behind Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Mueller.
Matthaeus. who won a world record 144th cap in last mon th's friendly against the Netherlands. plans to end his Interna -tlonal career after Euro 2000.
He has signed a one-year contract with MetroStars and was quoted as saying in an in -terview with German daily Sueddeutsclie Zeitung that he might then join Dubai.
VI have a lot of plans and I'm not quite sure what I will do." he said after the Stuttgart game. "1 might decide to stay longer with MetroStars or 1 might do something totally different.
But for the time being, let me concentrate on New York and on the European championship."
With his last match, congratulations poured In from all over Germany for the outspoken Matthaeus, who has sometimes been a controversial figure during his long career.
"Matthaeus was an honest fllayer who always gave the fans lis best," said German chancel -lor Gerhard Schroeder. "What 1 especially liked about him was his free kicks." Matthaeus said success has- I n’t slaked his desire to play. I that he still burns with the I hunger of 1992. when he said, f Tm simply crazy about soccer. 1 I love it and I'll do everything for
The midfielder-defender says his most memorable match was a 3-1 victory against Yugoslavia in Germany’s 1990 World Cup opener, a contest in which he scored twice. He believes the triumph paved the way for the country's title.
The Germans beat Maradona and Argentina in the final, a rematch of the 1986 decider in which Argentina emerged with the World Cup crown.
Maradona was. in the time I played, the biggest genius." recalls Matthaeus. "He owned the ball like no other. He acted like the ball belongs to him — and you had to get it back."
He will face Real Madrid in the Champions Cup before heading to New York and relative anonymity. Thal will be a big switch for a man who lias never been publicity-shy and I has faced decades of seeing । cameras wherever he turns.
Tin looking forward to it, ; just to be able to eat in a restau -rant hi peace, just to go out at all." Matthaeus said.
The Champions Cup Is the only trophy that Matthaeus has not'won in his long career, having it snatched away last season when Bayern Munich lost a heartbreaking 2-1 final to Manchester United by yielding two injury-time goals.
Bu( Matthaeus believes Bayern will reach the final again because of coach Ottmar Hitzfeld. whom he praises as one of the best of his career.
He is a guarantee of siccess." said Matthaeus. "After the loss last year, everybody said we were finished, bit we're back on top again.”
Not everyone believes Matthaeus Bundesliga days are over The German star has dan -filed the possibility of taking a ucrative offer to play in Dubai after his MetroStars stint. Then again, he's hinted at a return to Germany.
Bye bye Lothar, but I'm sure we ll be seeing each other again." said Christoph Daum, coach of Bundesliga rival Bayer Leverkusen.