Former captain says off-pitch ‘unrest’ key to shock defeat Having relatives there ‘was more important’ than results Lothar Matthäus, the former Germany captain turned pundit, has blamed the team’s crushing World Cup defeat by Paraguay in part on the players’ dogged efforts to have their families,...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/30/lothar-matthaus-germany-families-world-cup-exit)