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    "Idol " Matthaeus slams Germany for shunning him

    Reuters

    Sunday, November 8, 2009

    World Cup winner Lothar Matthaeus said on Sunday he was one of the greatest players ever to emerge from Germany yet had been shunned by his own country. "In other countries they treat idols differently and I am an idol in Germany," said the former Germany captain, who has coached clubs abroad but never in his homeland, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "This may sound a little cocky but after Franz Beckenbauer I am the second most famous German soccer personality around the world. Germany sho ...

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