what happened to him 25 years later – Corriere.it

Struuuunz! here two years, but played ten games. always injured. Before that famous conference of

Trapattoni — in which the Italian coach indulges in a long rebuke towards his players in a rather macaronic German (due to three knockouts in a row in the Bundesliga and a lackluster 0-0 draw in the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Champions League against Borussia) — Thomas Strunz was a skilled matchmaker who occasionally ran up the wing. He had won in Germany and internationally, including the ’96 European Championship. But if it is still impressed in the memory of many today, it owes this precisely to Trapwho on March 10, 1998 – in the press room – exploded with anger at the constant complaints of some players, who demanded more space: Some of them have forgotten that they are professionals, the first barb, immediately followed by others: In the last few games there have been two, three or four players who have turned out to be as weak as empty bottles. Or: They only think about complaining and not playing! Do you know why in Italy we don’t buy from Germany? Because you don’t have samples.

Strunz and Trapattoni’s outburst

Among blatant gestures, fists on the table and eyes bulging, here is the cult moment and that “Struuunz!”, which soon went around the world: He played 25 matches in this team, in this club. He has to respect other colleagues. Now these players have to prove to me and the fans that they can win matches by themselves, I’m tired of waiting for them and always defending them!” Finally the big closing, that: Ich habe fertig, i.e. I’m finished instead of I’m done, which is still used sarcastically in some commercials today. Trap will not be able to turn around that season, which will end empty-handed (second place in the league behind the newly promoted Kaiserslautern and elimination in the quarter-finals of the Champions League) before returning to Italy (la Florentine of the trident Rui Costa-Edmundo-Batistuta and four years in the national team). Strunz, for his part, will play a lot the following year (over 3000′) and very little in the last two spent in Bavaria. Will win again (three times the Bundesliga and one Champions), but off the pitch, fate will turn away from him.

From betrayal to divorce

Indeed, in 2002 the divorce from his wife Claudia becomes official, model since she was 19 years old. In the curriculum a cover of Vogue Germany And Ellethen also some nude photos for the men’s magazine Matador. The two have two children, Lucy and Thommyand they often date another couple, i.e Stefan Effenberg and his wife Martina, who in turn gave birth to Nol-Etienne, Nastassja and Ann-Kathrin. All happy and content. Carefree, even too much. Because it happens that Claudia and Stefan — teammate of Strunz and one of the most hated players in football history (favorite book il Mein Kampfmost booked player in the Bundesliga, a life between sex and drugs, a Down from for Bayern fans) — they fall in love.

On a spring evening Claudia invites him to dinner and he, taking advantage of his wife in America with his children, accepts. He then takes her to the hotel room and kisses her: Well I’ve lost a friend, but I’ve gained a wife, I will say later, after accusing Strunz of having entertained an extramarital affair with his Martina. Stefan and Claudia got married in 2004. For the cover of Bild they were photographed in very intimate attitudes, with her wearing bold lingerie: I loved sharing many things with Strunz, including his wifethe former midfielder continues to joke, while Thomas tries a second career inside the field with little successfirst as assistant coach at Borussia Mnchengladbach and then as general manager from Wolfsburg, only to then undertake the experience as a television pundit.

The fight in court with the children

In recent months he has found himself on the German front pages for taking his son Thommy to court: the latter, 21, is studying gastronomic sciences and in his second year of apprenticeship. He earns 600 euros a month, which is why his father refused to continue paying maintenance, winning the case. Not only that, because poor Thommy will also have to pay him back a four-figure sum for the money Strunz has paid into his health insurance company over the past four years. A sort of replay after what happened in 2018 with her daughter Lucia: He’s suing her!, ex-wife Claudia blurts out on the occasion of a fashion show in Monaco: No, I just want to know if I have to continue paying maintenance even now that it’s making money, he retorts.

In fact, Lucia has just begun to walk the same path as her mother, also participating in an audition for Germany’s Next Top Model. In 2017 the face of the advertising campaign for the luxury broker’s shoe collection Marcel Remus. You have worked for the fashion label High Society and on Instagram it has more than 11 thousand followers: But he is still studying, his mother specifies: If her father doesn’t believe it, he might as well wait for her outside the university instead of sending in constant letters from lawyers or demanding to see bank statements. She hasn’t met her for six years. In short, a soap opera: I don’t want to be exploited. I have responsibilities as a father, but I also have rights as a man, he replied. 25 years after the Trap conference – with which he made peace in the Zdfla TV studios in December 2013 – his life continues to be eventful