DoB: Sep 5, 1967
PoB: Dresden, DDR
Position: Midfield, Sweeper
Clubs represented: Dynamo Dresden, Vfb Stuttgart, Internazionale, Borussia Dortmund
Total appearances/goals: 291/84
Total caps: 23/6 for DDR, 51/8 for Germany
Honours: 5 domestic league titles, 1 national cup, 3 domestic super-cups
1 European Champions League, 1 Intercontinental Cup
1 European Championship (96; runner-up in 92)
German footballer of the year: 95, 96
European footballer of the year (Ballon d'Or): 96
Highs: 1996/1997 season when, after winning Germany's record 3rd Euro championship, and trumping teammate and captain Jürgen Klinsmann for the competition's best player award, goes on to repeat the feat with that year's Ballon d'Or (topping the likes of Barcelona's Ronaldo and Newcastle United's Alan Shearer). Later on defeats favourites and defending champions Juventus in the 97 Champions League final with Borussia Dortmund.
Lows: Failed to impose himself on the then highly demanding and attractive italian league, where he had been seen as the perfect replacement for former Inter and Germany legend Lothar Matthäus, who had left that summer (at 31) to Bayern München. He ended up only playing a meagre 11 games.
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