As an expert, he honestly says his opinion: Lothar Matthäus. However, not everyone likes that. Uli Hoeneß now criticized again – the feud goes back to 1997.
In recent years there have actually been several disputes between the two. But what was the trigger?
It is worth taking a look back at 1997 and one in 2002. What exactly happened when Matthew was still captain of FC Bayern? Internal information came to the press in 1997 – and the teammates had suspected Matthew. In an interview, Hoeneß confirmed that the team wanted to stop taking their captain. Franz Beckenbauer then called the team as a “shit team”. Matthew first kept the bandage.
He published his diary shortly afterwards, which was written by a reporter of the “Bild” newspaper. In it he also went into the team’s previous season and gave insights into the events in the cabin. Team colleague Jürgen Klinsmann did not get away well and an argument broke out. Matthäus also wrote about stomach pain from Thomas Helmer. Markus Babbel put it in a nutshell in the ZDF documentary “FC Hollywood”: “He played a loan. He also played a loan at the top.” At the time, Hoeneß said in the “Blickpunkt Sport”: “This is not what we imagine from the leadership quality of a captain.” He was discontinued as a captain, his relationship with those responsible for FC Bayern remained tense.
Further disputes followed in the late autumn of 2002 when Matthew had already finished his career. After the end of FC Bayern in the group phase of the Champions League at the Spanish Club Deportivo La Coruña, Matthäus critically commented on the performance of his ex-club. Uli Hoeneß’s reaction followed promptly – and had it tough. The then Bayern manager rumbled in the “double pass”: Matthäus had listed as if he had “won everything and never lost a game”. And further: “As long as Rummenigge and I have something to say at FC Bayern, Matthäus is not even a Greenkeeper in the new stadium.” A tip that burned down deeply.