Champions

“Champions” | Getting to Know Matthäus: Suffering Makes Me Stronger Youthful Forging: From Rejection to First Glory Lothar Matthäus’s football journey began with a starting point of rejection. Born in Erlangen in 1961, he was small in stature and unremarkable in talent during his youth, even rejected by Bayern Munich’s youth academy. In those days, … Read more

Chasing the Wind: Michael Owen and His Fleeting Glory On the night of June 30, 1998, France belonged to an 18-year-old. When Beckham’s pass cut across the field, the young man in the No. 20 shirt tore through Argentina’s entire defense with his pace, struck before Ayala’s desperate lunge, and the ball arched into the … Read more