Welcome to the Planet Football Podcast. I'm Grant Wall and we have a guest today who's a legend in world soccer.

Lotharmatias, Captain Germany to the 1990 World Cup title,

one of a record five men's world cups he played in,

and he's the only German ever to win the

FIFA World Player of the Year Award. He also won eight domestic league titles in

Germany and Italy with Byron Munich and Inter-Malan. Lothar, thank you for joining me today.

Yes, hello, your cuts to New York.

Great to have you on.

I wanted to start by saying I have always wanted to interview all

the captains of teams that have won the World Cup and put those interviews

altogether in a book someday.

What are the keys to leadership to being a captain

at the highest levels of the sport?

Well, so this is a big job.

It's a hard work to come in this position, but I was always somebody who was walking and playing

and caring for the team and I think us you have to make a result.

You have to be a player who like the communication and will go ahead. This is the most important thing in another way I had to like to play in

very good teams not only the German national team I played how we parked before by Bayern Munich and Inter Milan,

with another great players together.

This makes job easier because a great player don't need too much help.

It means you can focus for yourself too.

But in another way when something happened you have to be the first who has to go ahead.

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