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So when Diego basically went downhill then towards the end of 88, 89,
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And he was not himself anymore in the 90 World Cup already.
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And then obviously the drug issue came out in 94 then.
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But Lothar Matthäus took over in 89, 90 to be the best player in the world for a couple of years.
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And I mean, he was just like a box to box midfielder.
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that did all the right decisions in a split, split second.
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He was both footed, he had incredible speed, the first 10 yards when he was like, and yeah, playing alongside him, I think playing against, it was Diego Maradona that I admired the most, also Ruud Gullit, Ruud was for me fantastic, Marco van Basten, in the early 90s the best striker in the world, I would say, until he had, he broke his ankle.
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Yeah, he fused his ankle.
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But alongside it was Lothar Matthäus.
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And you get on well with him now, Matthäus?
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Totally, yeah.
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We're literally not best friends, but we're texting every two weeks.
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That's nice.
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Yeah, it's really became such a great friendship and respectful friendship.
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Maybe you needed that needle.
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Do you think you needed that in the team to drive each other on?
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I think it was actually also something really positive, good for it, because I was in the 19 World Cup team that won it, and I was representing the younger group of players a bit, and he was the establishment.
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He was the boss with Rudi Föller, with Andreas Brehme.
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So 3-4, Augenthaler from Bayern Munich, the sweeper there, they ran the show.
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And I was kind of representing the younger kids, the rebels a bit.