- Former German soccer player, compiling 35 caps for Germany's national side. During his professional club career, he played for Mönchengladbach (1987-1990, 1994-1998), Bayern Munich (1990-1992, 1998-2002), AC Fiorentina (1992-1994), VfL Wolfsburg (2002-2003) and Al Arabi (2003-2004).
- Best remembered for showing the finger to whistling German fans during a match against South Korea at the 1994 FIFA World Cup USA (1994). Thus, he had to leave Germany's national team.
- Left his first wife and then manager Martina and got romantically linked to Claudia Strunz, wife of his teammate Thomas Strunz (2002).
- His 2003 autobiography includes a chapter entitled "What Lothar Matthäus knows about football", which was just a blank page. Matthäus captained West Germany to its third World Cup win in 1990.
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