Lothar Matthäus: The Matthäus Affect
Overview
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Lothar Herbert Matthäus, one of the modern day greats within the footballing world, as well as being one of Germany's finest ever players with 150 international caps, the most that anybody has ever obtained from the nation.
Matthäus enjoyed a career spanning 21-years across 3 countries, obtaining numerous individual awards including both the Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year.
As well as individual awards, Matthäus has winners medals from the World Cup, the UEFA European Championship, the UEFA Cup, seven Bundesliga's titles and numerous Domestic Cup's.
In his days as a player Matthäus was well and truly the epitome of a box-to-box midfielder, but what happened next?
A year on from retiring, Lothar decided that he would attempt to achieve a new goal: to become a Bundesliga manager. Of course, before reaching this goal in such a prestigious league, he have to write a new resumé as a head coach.
Matthäus began his managerial career with a brief stint at Rapid Wien, followed by a year spent with FK Partizan. With Partizan, Matthäus achieved his initial goal of winning the league title, as well as a triumph over a strong Newcastle United side to qualify for the 2003/04 Champions League.
Matthäus left Partizan almost a year to the day of him joining the club in controversial circumstances to become manager of Hungary, his first international managerial post, and another role he did not keep for long.
Sacked by the Hungary F.A following several poor results, Matthäus continued his unwanted fashion of short-term positions with Atlético Paranaense, a team which he left after 7 games to be closer to home.
Red Bull Salzburg became the next destination for Matthäus, and although he clinched the Austrian League Title by a huge margin, he again did not keep his post for more than a year.
In 2008, Matthäus entailed on his final club venture, Maccabi Netanya of Israel. Finally, after a year as manager and sitting in 4th position, Matthäus looked set to end his run of short-term roles. Unfortunately, the Netanya board ran into financial issues, and Matthäus' contract had to be terminated with immediate affect in the Summer of 2009.
After another year long break, Matthäus returned to International management in 2010 with Bulgaria, a job which began relatively well with a 1-0 win over Wales. Although winning his first qualifier, Bulgaria failed to qualify for Euro 2012 which lead to yet another contract termination for the German.
Now, following yet another year long absence from the game spent as a pundit, Lothar Matthäus will for the last time attempt to gain a managerial status that reflects his time spent as a player.
My Game
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In an attempt to be realistic, and also to reflect Lothar's career so far, I will try my best to employ a 'German' approach to the way my team(s) play. I will also look to employ staff that are relevant to Lothar, and will start my game unemployed with several low-end European football leagues selected:
* German Division 2
* Czech Division 1 and 2
* Romanian Liga I and Liga II
* Russian Premier and First Division
* Swiss Super League and Challenge League
Targets
* To manage in the Bundesliga (Complete)
* To manage Bayern Munich
* To manage Germany
I hope to make this an enjoyable read, just as much as I hope to have an enjoyable game and 'career'. I'd also like to say Hello! This is my first post on FM-Base after many years of downloading from the site and reading some fantastic FM Stories.
May the game begin!
Overview
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Lothar Herbert Matthäus, one of the modern day greats within the footballing world, as well as being one of Germany's finest ever players with 150 international caps, the most that anybody has ever obtained from the nation.
Matthäus enjoyed a career spanning 21-years across 3 countries, obtaining numerous individual awards including both the Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year.
As well as individual awards, Matthäus has winners medals from the World Cup, the UEFA European Championship, the UEFA Cup, seven Bundesliga's titles and numerous Domestic Cup's.
In his days as a player Matthäus was well and truly the epitome of a box-to-box midfielder, but what happened next?
A year on from retiring, Lothar decided that he would attempt to achieve a new goal: to become a Bundesliga manager. Of course, before reaching this goal in such a prestigious league, he have to write a new resumé as a head coach.
Matthäus began his managerial career with a brief stint at Rapid Wien, followed by a year spent with FK Partizan. With Partizan, Matthäus achieved his initial goal of winning the league title, as well as a triumph over a strong Newcastle United side to qualify for the 2003/04 Champions League.
Matthäus left Partizan almost a year to the day of him joining the club in controversial circumstances to become manager of Hungary, his first international managerial post, and another role he did not keep for long.
Sacked by the Hungary F.A following several poor results, Matthäus continued his unwanted fashion of short-term positions with Atlético Paranaense, a team which he left after 7 games to be closer to home.
Red Bull Salzburg became the next destination for Matthäus, and although he clinched the Austrian League Title by a huge margin, he again did not keep his post for more than a year.
In 2008, Matthäus entailed on his final club venture, Maccabi Netanya of Israel. Finally, after a year as manager and sitting in 4th position, Matthäus looked set to end his run of short-term roles. Unfortunately, the Netanya board ran into financial issues, and Matthäus' contract had to be terminated with immediate affect in the Summer of 2009.
After another year long break, Matthäus returned to International management in 2010 with Bulgaria, a job which began relatively well with a 1-0 win over Wales. Although winning his first qualifier, Bulgaria failed to qualify for Euro 2012 which lead to yet another contract termination for the German.
Now, following yet another year long absence from the game spent as a pundit, Lothar Matthäus will for the last time attempt to gain a managerial status that reflects his time spent as a player.
My Game
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In an attempt to be realistic, and also to reflect Lothar's career so far, I will try my best to employ a 'German' approach to the way my team(s) play. I will also look to employ staff that are relevant to Lothar, and will start my game unemployed with several low-end European football leagues selected:
* German Division 2
* Czech Division 1 and 2
* Romanian Liga I and Liga II
* Russian Premier and First Division
* Swiss Super League and Challenge League
Targets
* To manage in the Bundesliga (Complete)
* To manage Bayern Munich
* To manage Germany
I hope to make this an enjoyable read, just as much as I hope to have an enjoyable game and 'career'. I'd also like to say Hello! This is my first post on FM-Base after many years of downloading from the site and reading some fantastic FM Stories.
May the game begin!
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