Cold showers await Matthaeus in USA

The Bayern libero will earn 820,000 dollars a year in New York, compensation for playing in one of the US major league8217;s worst teams. In the four years since the league has been running, the Metrostars have lost more games than any other side. The team trains at a school ground near Newark Airport where theshowers in the dressing rooms reputedly have just one water temperature: either very hot or very cold. That is, when the water works at all.

The Metrostars are low on confidence. Not once have they come back to win a game after the opposition scored first. Of their last 12 matches 11 were lost and they have not scored in their last four. 8220;A single player can8217;t save us,8221; Metrostars manager Charlie Stillitano said. 8220;We need someone to lead the team, a winner. And Lothar is a winner.8221;