Lothar Matthäus - People also ask

Q: Where does Lothar Matthäus live?

For most of the past two decades his home base has been **Budapest, Hungary**; he has said himself that he has lived there for around 16 years. More recent German media reports place him back in **Munich**, and in practice he splits his time between the two cities and his Sky Germany studio commitments. His exact address is private. Sources: t-online, watson.de.

Q: What is Lothar Matthäus's nationality?

He is **German**. Born in Erlangen in Bavaria in 1961 and raised in nearby Herzogenaurach, he played 150 times for West Germany and then reunified Germany between 1980 and 2000, a national record. Source: Wikipedia.

Q: How old is Lothar Matthäus?

Lothar Matthäus was born on **March 21, 1961**, which makes him **65 years old** as of August 2026. Source: Wikipedia.

Q: How tall is Lothar Matthäus?

He is **1.74 m** tall (about 5 ft 9 in). Never a giant, he built his game on engine, timing, a ferocious right foot and the ability to run a match from box to box. Source: Wikipedia.

Q: What did Lothar Matthäus win as a player?

The full set, more or less: the **1990 World Cup as captain of West Germany**, the **European Championship in 1980**, seven Bundesliga titles and the DFB-Pokal with Bayern Munich, Serie A with Inter Milan in 1989, and two UEFA Cups (Inter 1991, Bayern 1996). Individually he won the **Ballon d'Or in 1990** and the inaugural **FIFA World Player of the Year award in 1991**, still the only German men's player to have won it. Sources: FIFA, Wikipedia.

Q: How many caps does Lothar Matthäus have for Germany?

**150 caps and 23 goals** between 1980 and 2000, still the German record. He is also one of the very few players to have appeared at **five World Cups** (1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998), and his 25 World Cup matches stood as the all-time record until Lionel Messi passed it in 2022. Sources: FIFA, Wikipedia.

Q: Which clubs did Lothar Matthäus play for?

Borussia Mönchengladbach (1979-1984), **Bayern Munich** (1984-1988), **Inter Milan** (1988-1992), Bayern again (1992-2000) and a short farewell spell with the New York/New Jersey MetroStars in MLS in 2000. His Inter years, alongside Andreas Brehme and Jürgen Klinsmann, produced the 1989 Scudetto and his Ballon d'Or form. Source: Wikipedia.

Q: What does Lothar Matthäus do now?

He is Germany's best-known football **pundit**, above all as an expert for **Sky Germany**, plus columns and ambassador work. He was one of the most-quoted German voices around the 2026 World Cup, weighing in on squad choices and young forwards like Nick Woltemade, whom he publicly urged fans not to burden with Messi and Ronaldo comparisons. Sources: Sky Sport, Sportskeeda.

Q: How many times has Lothar Matthäus been married?

**Five times.** His marriages include Swiss TV presenter and former Miss Switzerland Lolita Morena (mother of his son Loris) and, most recently, Anastasia Klimko, mother of his youngest son Milan, born in 2014; that fifth marriage ended in 2021. He generally keeps his family life out of his punditry work. Sources: Wikipedia, Bunte.

Lothar Matthäus is Germany's most-capped footballer (150 caps), captain of the 1990 World Cup winners, 1990 Ballon d'Or holder and the first FIFA World Player of the Year. Now 65, he is one of German football's loudest pundit voices, on Sky Germany and beyond. Sources: FIFA, Wikipedia, Sky Sport.

By Alexandre Le Hégarat · datastats · Updated August 5, 2026

Lothar Matthäus is the most-capped player in the history of the German national team and, for a stretch around 1990, was the best footballer on the planet. Born in Erlangen on March 21, 1961 and raised in Herzogenaurach, the Franconian town split between Adidas and Puma, he turned an unremarkable start at Borussia Mönchengladbach into one of the longest elite careers the game has seen: 150 internationals across 20 years and five World Cups.

The summit came in Italy in 1990. As captain and driving midfielder, Matthäus led West Germany to the World Cup title, beating Argentina 1-0 in the Rome final, and his performances that year won him the Ballon d’Or. A year later he became the first FIFA World Player of the Year, an award no other German men’s player has won since. At club level he stacked up seven Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich, the 1989 Serie A title with Inter Milan and UEFA Cups with both clubs, reinventing himself late in his career as a sweeper of rare elegance.

His coaching career, from Rapid Vienna to the Hungarian and Bulgarian national teams, never reached the same heights, and he has long since made peace with that. Television turned out to be his real second career: as Sky Germany’s lead expert he is one of the most influential, and most quoted, voices in German football, with opinions sharp enough to make weekly headlines.

Around the 2026 World Cup he was everywhere in the German media, assessing the national team’s options and defending young players from inflated expectations, notably telling fans that Newcastle striker Nick Woltemade “is not Messi or Ronaldo” and deserved time. Off camera, he has spent much of the past two decades based in Budapest, with recent reports placing him back in Munich; five marriages and a family spread across Europe have kept the tabloids interested for forty years, though the football judgment remains the reason everyone still listens. Sources: FIFA, Wikipedia, Sky Sport, t-online, Sportskeeda.