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Former Germany and Bayern Munich captain Lothar Matthäus has urged Munich honorary president Uli Hoeness to take a step back and let the current leadership make decisions on their own. Matthäus said in his Sky TV column on Monday that Hoeness’ merits at the club after decades as general manager and president were beyond any doubt but that board member for sport Max Eberl and others should be in charge. This applies especially to the ongoing search for a new coach which Matthäus named “more and more comical.” Xabi Alonso from Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen, former Bayern and now Germany …