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{{Football player infobox| playername= Miroslav Klose| image =
Klose during the match FC Barcelona-Werder Bremen| dateofbirth = | cityofbirth =
Opole, [Poland| clubnumber = 18| position = [Striker[1. FC KaiserslauternSV Werder Bremen
FC Bayern Munich| nationalcaps(goals) = 70 (35)| pcupdate = [20 October 2007 [2007-->
Miroslav Klose (born Mirosław Marian Kloze
June 9,
1978 in Opole,
Silesia, Poland) is a German Football (soccer) who plays as a
striker. He currently plays for FC Bayern Munich in the
Bundesliga (football) in
Germany, and for the
German National Football Team.
Klose was the top scorer and thus the
Golden Boot winner at the
2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, with a tournament-high 5 goals. Klose also scored 5 goals in his debut World Cup, the
2002 FIFA World Cup hosted jointly by the
South Korea national football team and
Japan national football team, giving him a total of 10 goals in World Cup finals. He is the first player representing unified Germany to finish as the World Cup's top scorer, and the only player to have scored 5 or more goals in consecutive World Cups.
Biography
Miroslav hails from a sporting family; Miroslav Klose's mother, Barbara Jeż, was a member of the
Poland national handball team (appearing in 82 international matches), and his father,
Józef Kloze, played professional football in
Poland and France, and he also represented the Poland National Football Team on several occassions. Germany's Strikers Eye Crunch Game With Mixed Emotions In
1981, the Klose family escaped Soviet controlled
communist Poland, by moving first to France, then in 1987, to
Kusel,
Germany. Klose's father is from an ethnic German family and thus could resettle as an
Aussiedler#Germany. Deutsch-polnische Geschichte Stolz von Oberschlesien
Klose learned his football at a village club, Blaubach-Diedelkopf, in the German seventh division. Klose had also successfully completed an apprenticeship to become a carpenter and had worked in this profession until joining the professional team of Kaiserslautern.
Klose made it professional much later than soccer players in the age bracket, may say it was due to his inferior ability. He has in the past had many comparisons with various world class strikers such as Owen and Van Nistelrooy. When asked about the comparisons Klose expressed his flattery to be compared to the likes of Van Nistelrooy, "It's an honour to be compared to Ruud, he's played in Europe for so long and has a great goal scoring record, I hope one day I can be good as him." This interview was conducted in June 2007 with Der Spiegel prior his move to Bayern Munich.
Club career
Kaiserslautern
After a season at
FC Homburg, he eventually joined the amateur division of FC Kaiserslautern.
A year after joining the club he made it into the first team. In his first 67 matches, Klose scored 33 goals. The Fußball-Bundesliga 2002/03 was a comparatively disappointing one as Klose found the back of the net a mere 7 times.
Werder Bremen
He transferred to
Werder Bremen in
2004 for a sum of
Euro5 million. After a lackluster start, Klose formed an impressive attacking triangle with
France midfielder
Johan Micoud and Croatian forward Ivan Klasnić as well as, though less frequently, Paraguayan forward Nelson Valdez, scoring 15 goals in the
Bundesliga (football).
Despite his relatively slender frame, Klose is one of the best headers of the ball in the
Bundesliga (football). Moreover, he combines a natural killer instinct inside the box with excellent technical ability, and is equally lethal with the ball at his feet. By
2005, the introverted Klose had established himself as one of Germany's top forwards, if not the best. In the Fußball-Bundesliga 2005/06, he scored 25 goals, the highest that season, and registered 16 assists in just 26 games in the Bundesliga.
After his strong performance at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Klose was linked by newspapers with a move away from the Weserstadion. European giants
FC Barcelona and
Juventus were listed among his potential suitors. Klose was also heavily linked with a move to
Bayern Munich, with Bayern president Franz Beckenbauer an admirer of Klose.
On June 7
2007, Klose confirmed that he would leave
Werder Bremen for Bayern Munich either before the 2007-08 season or upon the expiration of his contract with Werder Bremen at the end of the 2007-08 season. Reds table bid for Werder star Klose
Bayern Munich
On June 26 2007, Bayern president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge confirmed that
Bayern Munich had reached an agreement with Werder Bremen regarding the transfer of Klose for an estimated fee of Euro15m. Bayern agree Klose deal Klose completed his medical with Bayern on
June 28 2007 before signing a four-year contract. Klose joins Bayern
After these successful friendly matches, Klose made his first competitive appearance for Bayern in a 4-1 victory against old team Werder Bremen in the first round of the DFB Liga-Pokal. After missing the semi-final victory over
VfB Stuttgart due to injury, Klose returned in the final against
Schalke 04, scoring his first competitive goal for Bayern to win the title.
Miroslav Klose made a his
Fußball-Bundesliga debut in the game against
Hansa Rostock on August 11 2007 in which he scored two goals. The game ended 3-0 for Bayern Munich with Klose's striking partner
Luca Toni scoring the other goal.
International career
In January 2001, the then national coach
Jerzy Engel of the
Poland national football team travelled to Germany to persuade Klose to play for the Polish national team, since Klose has Polish nationality. His request was declined by Klose who said that:
"I have a German passport, and if things are still running this way, I have a chance to play for Rudi Völler". Miroslav Klose - die offizielle Webseite
His consistency as a goal-scorer in his first season at Kaiserslautern earned him his first international cap and he made his debut against Albania national football team on
March 24,
2001. Germany won the match 2-1, with Klose scoring Germany's second goal.
In the
2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea-Japan, he scored five goals for the Germany national football team, finishing as one of the highest scorers of the tournament. This tally included a
hat trick in Germany's 8-0 win over Saudi Arabia. Klose's trademark
goal celebration is a front-flip which he did five times during the 2002 FIFA World Cup and which has earned him the fans' nickname "Salto-Klose".
Klose was named to his second successive FIFA World Cup team for the
2006 FIFA World Cup. In the opening match against Costa Rica, coinciding with his 28th birthday, Klose scored two goals for Germany, in the 17th and 61st minutes. This led to Germany's 4-2 win over Costa Rica. He scored another two goals against Ecuador national football team on
June 20, putting him on top of the tournament top scorer list with four goals. Klose also played a major part in Germany's 2-0 win over Sweden in the first knockout round, demonstrating his ability to provide assists as he set up strike partner
Lukas Podolski for both goals.
Klose scored the equaliser against Argentina in the quarterfinal game played on June 30, 2006, with Germany going on to win 4-2 on penalty shootout (football). Klose is the first German since
Gerd Müller in the 1970s to become the top scorer at a World Cup, and the first World Cup finals top scorer from unified Germany (Müller represented the former West Germany). Klose has scored 10 goals in World Cup finals, and is 6 goals away from overtaking
Brazilian forward Ronaldo as the all-time highest scorer in World Cup finals
His five 2002 World Cup goals were all headers; only the fifth of his five goals in the 2006 matches was a header (his first in two years). Three of the first four were scored with his favoured right foot. Klose and team-mate
Michael Ballack became the only two FIFA World Cup awards#All-Star Team of the 2006 World Cup to be in the previous All-Star Team of 2002.
On
6 September 2006 Klose scored 2 away goals against San Marino in a 13-0 win for
Germany which took his international goal tally to 33, the same amount as his idol
Fritz Walter and to joint 7th in the list of all-time goalscorers for Germany.
Another highlight in Klose's career came on
September 8 2007, as he captained Germany for the first time and celebrated this honour by scoring both of his country's goals in a 2-0 victory over Wales.
Honours
Career stats
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All-Time Club Performance|- style="background:beige"!rowspan="2"|Club!rowspan="2"|Season!colspan="2"|Domestic League!colspan="2"|Domestic Cup!colspan="2"|European Competition!colspan="2"|Total|- style="background:beige"!App!Goals!App!Goals!App !Goals!App!Goals|-|rowspan="1" align=center valign=center|
Bayern Munich]|align="center"|06-07|align="center"|31|align="center"|13|align="center"|1|align="center"|0|align="center"|13|align="center"|2|align="center"|45|align="center"|15|-|align="center"|05-06|align="center"|26|align="center"|25|align="center"|3|align="center"|2|align="center"|7|align="center"|3|align="center"|36|align="center"|30|-|align="center"|04-05|align="center"|32|align="center"|15|align="center"|4|align="center"|0|align="center"|8|align="center"|2|align="center"|44|align="center"|17|-|- style="background:lemonchiffon"! Total !! !! 89 !! 53 !! 8 !! 2 !! 28 !! 7 !! 125 !! 62|-|rowspan="5" align=center valign=center|
FC Kaiserslautern|align="center"|03-04|align="center"|26|align="center"|10|align="center"|1|align="center"|1|align="center"|2|align="center"|1|align="center"|29|align="center"|12|-|align="center"|02-03|align="center"|32|align="center"|9|align="center"|4|align="center"|4|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|36|align="center"|13|-|align="center"|01-02|align="center"|31|align="center"|16|align="center"|4|align="center"|0|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|35|align="center"|16|-|align="center"|00-01|align="center"|29|align="center"|9|align="center"|2|align="center"|0|align="center"|12|align="center"|2|align="center"|43|align="center"|11|-|align="center"|99-00|align="center"|2|align="center"|0|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|2|align="center"|0|- style="background:lemonchiffon"! Total !! !! 120 !! 44 !! 11 !! 5 !! 14 !! 3 !! 145 !! 52|-! style="background:beige"|Career Totals! style="background:beige" colspan="1" |! style="background:beige"| 216! style="background:beige"| 105! style="background:beige"| 20! style="background:beige"| 8! style="background:beige"| 42! style="background:beige"| 10! style="background:beige"| 278! style="background:beige"| 123|-|}
References
External links
- Germany Team Fans Site
- Klose's official site
- Profile on uefa.com
- Profile on the official Bayern Munich site
- Klose´s ancestors from Upper Silesia, Poland
- Golden Boot winner 2006
- Goal.com profile
{{Football player infobox| playername= Miroslav Klose| image =
Klose during the match FC Barcelona-Werder Bremen| dateofbirth = | cityofbirth = Opole, [Poland| clubnumber = 18| position = [Striker[1. FC Kaiserslautern
SV Werder BremenFC Bayern Munich| nationalcaps(goals) = 70 (35)| pcupdate = [20 October 2007 [2007-->
Miroslav Klose (born Mirosław Marian Kloze
June 9, 1978 in
Opole,
Silesia,
Poland) is a German
Football (soccer) who plays as a
striker. He currently plays for FC Bayern Munich in the
Bundesliga (football) in
Germany, and for the German National Football Team.
Klose was the top scorer and thus the
Golden Boot winner at the
2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, with a tournament-high 5 goals. Klose also scored 5 goals in his debut World Cup, the 2002 FIFA World Cup hosted jointly by the South Korea national football team and
Japan national football team, giving him a total of 10 goals in World Cup finals. He is the first player representing unified
Germany to finish as the World Cup's top scorer, and the only player to have scored 5 or more goals in consecutive World Cups.
Biography
Miroslav hails from a sporting family; Miroslav Klose's mother, Barbara Jeż, was a member of the Poland national handball team (appearing in 82 international matches), and his father,
Józef Kloze, played professional football in
Poland and
France, and he also represented the Poland National Football Team on several occassions. Germany's Strikers Eye Crunch Game With Mixed Emotions In 1981, the Klose family escaped Soviet controlled
communist Poland, by moving first to France, then in
1987, to Kusel,
Germany. Klose's father is from an ethnic German family and thus could resettle as an
Aussiedler#Germany. Deutsch-polnische Geschichte Stolz von Oberschlesien
Klose learned his football at a village club, Blaubach-Diedelkopf, in the German seventh division. Klose had also successfully completed an apprenticeship to become a
carpenter and had worked in this profession until joining the professional team of Kaiserslautern.
Klose made it professional much later than soccer players in the age bracket, may say it was due to his inferior ability. He has in the past had many comparisons with various world class strikers such as Owen and Van Nistelrooy. When asked about the comparisons Klose expressed his flattery to be compared to the likes of Van Nistelrooy, "It's an honour to be compared to Ruud, he's played in Europe for so long and has a great goal scoring record, I hope one day I can be good as him." This interview was conducted in June 2007 with Der Spiegel prior his move to Bayern Munich.
Club career
Kaiserslautern
After a season at FC Homburg, he eventually joined the amateur division of FC Kaiserslautern.
A year after joining the club he made it into the first team. In his first 67 matches, Klose scored 33 goals. The
Fußball-Bundesliga 2002/03 was a comparatively disappointing one as Klose found the back of the net a mere 7 times.
Werder Bremen
He transferred to Werder Bremen in
2004 for a sum of Euro5 million. After a lackluster start, Klose formed an impressive attacking triangle with
France midfielder Johan Micoud and
Croatian forward
Ivan Klasnić as well as, though less frequently, Paraguayan forward
Nelson Valdez, scoring 15 goals in the
Bundesliga (football).
Despite his relatively slender frame, Klose is one of the best headers of the ball in the Bundesliga (football). Moreover, he combines a natural killer instinct inside the box with excellent technical ability, and is equally lethal with the ball at his feet. By 2005, the introverted Klose had established himself as one of Germany's top forwards, if not the best. In the
Fußball-Bundesliga 2005/06, he scored 25 goals, the highest that season, and registered 16 assists in just 26 games in the Bundesliga.
After his strong performance at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Klose was linked by newspapers with a move away from the Weserstadion. European giants FC Barcelona and
Juventus were listed among his potential suitors. Klose was also heavily linked with a move to
Bayern Munich, with Bayern president
Franz Beckenbauer an admirer of Klose.
On
June 7 2007, Klose confirmed that he would leave Werder Bremen for
Bayern Munich either before the 2007-08 season or upon the expiration of his contract with
Werder Bremen at the end of the 2007-08 season. Reds table bid for Werder star Klose
Bayern Munich
On
June 26 2007, Bayern president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge confirmed that
Bayern Munich had reached an agreement with Werder Bremen regarding the transfer of Klose for an estimated fee of Euro15m. Bayern agree Klose deal Klose completed his medical with Bayern on
June 28 2007 before signing a four-year contract. Klose joins Bayern
After these successful friendly matches, Klose made his first competitive appearance for Bayern in a 4-1 victory against old team Werder Bremen in the first round of the DFB Liga-Pokal. After missing the semi-final victory over VfB Stuttgart due to injury, Klose returned in the final against Schalke 04, scoring his first competitive goal for Bayern to win the title.
Miroslav Klose made a his Fußball-Bundesliga debut in the game against Hansa Rostock on
August 11 2007 in which he scored two goals. The game ended 3-0 for
Bayern Munich with Klose's striking partner
Luca Toni scoring the other goal.
International career
In
January 2001, the then national coach
Jerzy Engel of the
Poland national football team travelled to
Germany to persuade Klose to play for the Polish national team, since Klose has Polish nationality. His request was declined by Klose who said that:
"I have a German passport, and if things are still running this way, I have a chance to play for Rudi Völler". Miroslav Klose - die offizielle Webseite
His consistency as a goal-scorer in his first season at Kaiserslautern earned him his first international cap and he made his debut against
Albania national football team on March 24,
2001. Germany won the match 2-1, with Klose scoring Germany's second goal.
In the
2002 FIFA World Cup in
South Korea-Japan, he scored five goals for the
Germany national football team, finishing as one of the highest scorers of the tournament. This tally included a hat trick in Germany's 8-0 win over Saudi Arabia. Klose's trademark
goal celebration is a front-flip which he did five times during the
2002 FIFA World Cup and which has earned him the fans' nickname "Salto-Klose".
Klose was named to his second successive
FIFA World Cup team for the
2006 FIFA World Cup. In the opening match against
Costa Rica, coinciding with his 28th birthday, Klose scored two goals for Germany, in the 17th and 61st minutes. This led to Germany's 4-2 win over Costa Rica. He scored another two goals against Ecuador national football team on June 20, putting him on top of the tournament top scorer list with four goals. Klose also played a major part in Germany's 2-0 win over Sweden in the first knockout round, demonstrating his ability to provide assists as he set up strike partner Lukas Podolski for both goals.
Klose scored the equaliser against Argentina in the quarterfinal game played on June 30, 2006, with Germany going on to win 4-2 on penalty shootout (football). Klose is the first German since
Gerd Müller in the 1970s to become the top scorer at a World Cup, and the first World Cup finals top scorer from unified Germany (Müller represented the former West Germany). Klose has scored 10 goals in World Cup finals, and is 6 goals away from overtaking Brazilian forward Ronaldo as the all-time highest scorer in World Cup finals
His five 2002 World Cup goals were all headers; only the fifth of his five goals in the 2006 matches was a header (his first in two years). Three of the first four were scored with his favoured right foot. Klose and team-mate
Michael Ballack became the only two FIFA World Cup awards#All-Star Team of the 2006 World Cup to be in the previous All-Star Team of 2002.
On
6 September 2006 Klose scored 2 away goals against
San Marino in a 13-0 win for
Germany which took his international goal tally to 33, the same amount as his idol Fritz Walter and to joint 7th in the list of all-time goalscorers for Germany.
Another highlight in Klose's career came on
September 8 2007, as he captained Germany for the first time and celebrated this honour by scoring both of his country's goals in a 2-0 victory over Wales.
Honours
Career stats
{|border=1 align=center cellpadding=4 cellspacing=2 style="background: ivory; font-size: 95%; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; clear:center"|+
All-Time Club Performance|- style="background:beige"!rowspan="2"|Club!rowspan="2"|Season!colspan="2"|Domestic League!colspan="2"|Domestic Cup!colspan="2"|European Competition!colspan="2"|Total|- style="background:beige"!App!Goals!App!Goals!App !Goals!App!Goals|-|rowspan="1" align=center valign=center|
Bayern Munich]|align="center"|06-07|align="center"|31|align="center"|13|align="center"|1|align="center"|0|align="center"|13|align="center"|2|align="center"|45|align="center"|15|-|align="center"|05-06|align="center"|26|align="center"|25|align="center"|3|align="center"|2|align="center"|7|align="center"|3|align="center"|36|align="center"|30|-|align="center"|04-05|align="center"|32|align="center"|15|align="center"|4|align="center"|0|align="center"|8|align="center"|2|align="center"|44|align="center"|17|-|- style="background:lemonchiffon"! Total !! !! 89 !! 53 !! 8 !! 2 !! 28 !! 7 !! 125 !! 62|-|rowspan="5" align=center valign=center|
FC Kaiserslautern|align="center"|03-04|align="center"|26|align="center"|10|align="center"|1|align="center"|1|align="center"|2|align="center"|1|align="center"|29|align="center"|12|-|align="center"|02-03|align="center"|32|align="center"|9|align="center"|4|align="center"|4|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|36|align="center"|13|-|align="center"|01-02|align="center"|31|align="center"|16|align="center"|4|align="center"|0|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|35|align="center"|16|-|align="center"|00-01|align="center"|29|align="center"|9|align="center"|2|align="center"|0|align="center"|12|align="center"|2|align="center"|43|align="center"|11|-|align="center"|99-00|align="center"|2|align="center"|0|align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"||align="center"|2|align="center"|0|- style="background:lemonchiffon"! Total !! !! 120 !! 44 !! 11 !! 5 !! 14 !! 3 !! 145 !! 52|-! style="background:beige"|Career Totals! style="background:beige" colspan="1" |! style="background:beige"| 216! style="background:beige"| 105! style="background:beige"| 20! style="background:beige"| 8! style="background:beige"| 42! style="background:beige"| 10! style="background:beige"| 278! style="background:beige"| 123|-|}
References
External links
- Germany Team Fans Site
- Klose's official site
- Profile on uefa.com
- Profile on the official Bayern Munich site
- Klose´s ancestors from Upper Silesia, Poland
- Golden Boot winner 2006
- Goal.com profile
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