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Miroslav Klose
Klose in 2012
Personal information
Full name Miroslav Josef Klose[1]
Date of birth (1978-06-09) 9 June 1978 (age 46)[2]
Place of birth Opole, Poland
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)[3]
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Lazio
Number 11
Youth career
1987–1997 SG Blaubach-Diedelkopf
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–1998 SG Blaubach-Diedelkopf
1998–1999 FC 08 Homburg II 15 (10)
1998–1999 FC 08 Homburg 18 (1)
1999–2001 1. FC Kaiserslautern II 50 (26)
1999–2004 1. FC Kaiserslautern 120 (44)
2004–2007 Werder Bremen 89 (53)
2007–2011 Bayern Munich 98 (24)
2011– Lazio 78 (35)
International career‡
2001– Germany 131 (124)
Medal record
1. FC Kaiserslautern
Runner-up DFB-Pokal 2003
Werder Bremen
Winner DFL-Ligapokal 2006
Bayern Munich
Winner DFL-Ligapokal 2007
Winner Bundesliga 2008
Winner DFB-Pokal 2008
Winner Bundesliga 2010
Winner DFB-Pokal 2010
Runner-up UEFA Champions League 2010
Winner DFL-Supercup 2010
Lazio
Winner Coppa Italia 2013
Runner-up Supercoppa Italiana 2013
 Germany
Runner-up FIFA World Cup 2002
Third place FIFA World Cup 2006
Runner-up European Championship 2008
Third place FIFA World Cup 2010
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:56, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21:52, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Miroslav Josef Klose (German pronunciation: [ˈmɪʁoslaf ˈkloːzə] ⓘ, Polish: [miˈrɔswaf ˈklɔzɛ]; born 9 June 1978)[4] is a German professional footballer who plays as a striker for Lazio in the Serie A.

Klose holds German nationality[5] and has played 131 times and scored 68 goals for Germany. With five goals, he was the top scorer and Golden Boot winner at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the first German player to win the award since reunification. Klose also scored five goals in his debut World Cup, the 2002 World Cup, all of which were headers. He scored four times in the 2010 World Cup, giving him a total of 14 World Cup goals and putting him joint second along with Gerd Müller on the list of top FIFA World Cup goalscorers. Klose is also one of only two players, along with Peruvian Teófilo Cubillas, to have scored at least five goals in two different World Cups, as well as the only player to have scored at least four in three different tournaments.[6] With 68 goals in 131 matches, he is currently Germany's joint all-time top scorer with Müller.

Biography

Background

Klose was born in the Silesian city of Opole, Poland. His father, Josef Klose was a professional footballer who played in Poland for Odra Opole, before leaving the communist Poland in 1978 to France.[7] Josef Klose played for AJ Auxerre, a French football club in Ligue 1 as a winger. Both of his parents were active in sports.[8] His mother, Barbara Jeż, was also a member of the Poland women's national handball team. In 1986, Miroslav Klose at the age of eight joined his father in Kusel in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate Germany. Josef Klose is an ethnic German and holds German nationality.[5] When Klose arrived in Germany in 1986, he knew only two words of German.[9]

Klose himself said in an interview in 2008 to Przegląd Sportowy that it would be best for him not to be called German or Polish, but European.[10] As he stated in an interview to Der Spiegel in 2007, his family at home speaks Polish to each other, with his twin sons Luan and Noah[11] are learning German in kindergarten.[12] He has a Polish-born wife, Sylwia Klose.[13]

Klose is an observant Catholic. He visited Pope Benedict XVI in March 2012.[14]

Club career

Kaiserslautern

His career in the professional game began when he was 20 with a switch to the reserves at former Bundesliga outfit FC Homburg. Twelve months later, he moved to FC Kaiserslautern.[citation needed]

Werder Bremen

Miroslav Klose at Werder Bremen

On 2 March 2004, Klose signed a four–year contract with German Bundesliga club Werder Bremen for a fee of €5 million ($6.2 million).[15][16] He made his league debut on 6 August 2004, as a substitute for Paraguayan striker Nelson Valdez in a 1–0 home win against Schalke 04.[17][18] On 29 August 2004, Klose scored his first goal, an equaliser, which Bremen lost 1–2 at home against Wolfsburg.[19][20]

On 7 June 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 at the end of the 2007–08 season.[21]

Bayern Munich

Luca Toni and Miro Klose (18), Olympiastadion, Hertha BSC vs. Bayern Munich, 2009

On 26 June 2007, club president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge confirmed that Bayern Munich had reached an agreement with Werder Bremen regarding the transfer of the player. Klose completed his medical with Bayern on 28 June 2007 before signing a four-year contract.[citation needed]

On 7 June 2011, with his contract about to expire, Klose did not reach an agreement with Bayern Munich, thus leaving the club at the end of the 2010–11 season.[22]

Lazio

2011–12 season

Klose signed a three-year contract with Lazio on 9 June 2011.[23] He scored his first goal for Lazio in UEFA Europa League 2012 Play-offs and also assisted four other goals. Lazio won that game 6–0 and won the play-offs by 9–1 aggregate against Rabotnički.[24] On 9 September 2011, he made his league debut in a 2–2 draw against Milan and scored a goal in the 12th minute, which was the first Serie A goal of the season. Despite only being at the club for a few months his coach Edy Reja has already underlined his importance to the team.[25] On 16 October 2011, Klose scored in the 93rd minute to win the Rome derby 2–1 for Lazio. However, the occasion was tainted by a small section of radical Lazio fans holding a sign adapted from a motto used by the Nazis. The sign read 'Klose Mit Uns', which means 'Klose with us'. It was intended by those fans as praise for Klose; however, the Nazis used the motto 'God with us' and the Lazio fans' sign featured the 'S's in the same font as the logo of Hitler's SS. Klose has explicitly condemned the sign, adding 'politics should stay out of the stadium'.[26][27][28]

On 10 December 2011, Klose scored twice and assisted one for Lazio in an away game against Lecce, including an 87-minute goal that gave Lazio a 2–3 victory.[29]

2012–13 season

On 2 September 2012, Klose scored his first Serie A goal of the season, scoring a brace in Lazio's 3–0 home defeat of Palermo.[30] On 26 September, Klose accidentally scored a goal with his hand against Napoli for Lazio, not seen by the referee. However, Klose showed great sportsmanship by informing the referee and asking to discount the goal. The referee then reversed the decision and the goal was discounted.[31]

On 2 December, Klose scored his ninth goal of the season, securing a 2–1 victory over Parma, lifting Lazio into fourth place in Serie A.[32] Two weeks later on 15 December, he scored a late goal to send his side to a 1–0 victory over second place Internazionale, reducing the gap between the two sides to one point.[33] On 5 May 2013, he scored five goals against Bologna before being substituted for Louis Saha in the 68th minute.[34] It was the first time since the 1984–85 season that a player scored five goals in the same game in Serie A.[35]

On 26 May, he won the Coppa Italia beating Lazio's city rivals Roma 1–0, the sixth in Lazio's history and the first time in the history of the tournament to see a Lazio-Roma derby in the final.[36]

International career

Miroslav Klose during the 2006 FIFA World Cup

Klose's consistency as a goal-scorer in his first Bundesliga season at Kaiserslautern earned him attention. In January 2001, the then coach of the Polish national team, Jerzy Engel, travelled to Germany to persuade Klose to choose to play for Poland. This 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." Klose's hopes were justified, as he would soon score for Germany.[37]

In an interview given to Przegląd Sportowy on 9 June 2008, Klose stated that the decision to play for Germany instead of Poland was not an easy one, and if Polish officials had been faster, he would be playing for Poland now. Furthermore, he added that he does not regret the choice, as with Germany he has won medals in the World Cup tournaments.[10] The German national team has never lost a game in which Klose has scored.[38]

2002 World Cup

Klose's international debut came on 24 March 2001 in a World Cup qualifier against Albania, in the 73rd minute coach Rudi Völler put him in as a substitute. Two minutes from time he headed home the 2–1 winner for Germany and celebrated with a front-flip.[39] Four days later in his second match Klose helped Germany temporarily lead their qualification group, he came on in the 67th minute and scored the 3–2 against Greece in the 82nd minute, making it two crucial goals in only 33 minutes on the pitch. Two hat-tricks against Israel and Austria in friendlies prior to the upcoming World Cup were enough to establish him in Germany's starting lineup for the tournament.[40]

Klose came to international prominence at the 2002 World Cup in Korea-Japan, because he scored five headed goals for Germany, finishing joint second highest goal scorer along with Rivaldo. He became the first player ever to score five headers in a World Cup, and he celebrated two of his goals with his trademark front-flip, earning him the nickname "Salto-Klose".[41] His goal tally included a hat-trick in Germany's 8–0 hammering of Saudi Arabia, as well as one goal each against Ireland and Cameroon.[42]

Euro 2004

Klose also participated in Euro 2004 and came on as a substitute in two games, against Latvia and the Czech Republic, but was not completely fit, since he just recovered from a knee injury. He wasn't able to score and Germany went out in the first round.[43]

2006 World Cup

Miroslav Klose playing in the 2006 World Cup

Euro 2008

In the main tournament, Klose started the opening group game against Poland and assisted Lukas Podolski's two goals in a 2–0 victory. He played the remaining two group games against Croatia and Austria with no goals of his own. He finally broke his duck during the knockout stages, scoring for Germany in quarter-final and semi-final against Portugal and Turkey, respectively. In both games he scored Germanys second goal, and both games were won by 3–2. He was unable, however, to score during the final against Spain, as they lost the match 1–0.[44][45]

2010 World Cup

Klose was selected in Germany's final 23-man squad, and for his third successive World Cup campaign. On 13 June, Klose scored the second goal against Australia in their opening group game, a 4–0 victory. This goal put him level in World Cup goals with his former coach Jürgen Klinsmann.[46]

He opened the scoring in the Round of 16 match against England on 27 June 2010 with his 12th World Cup goal, equalling Pelé for fourth on the all time list, and also notching up his 50th international goal in his 99th international game, as Germany won the game 4–1.[47]

Klose made his 100th international appearance in the quarter-final match against Argentina, becoming only the sixth German player to reach the landmark. He then scored the second and fourth goals against Argentina (Germany winning 4–0), pulling him level with Gerd Müller's all-time German World Cup goalscoring record.[48]

Euro 2012

During the Euro 2012 qualifiers, Klose has scored at least one goal in every single game he played, striking against all of Germany's opponents: Belgium, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Austria. Gaining only six caps during the qualification campaign, he scored nine goals and provided two assists, making him Europe's second-most-successful striker for this period, behind Klaas-Jan Huntelaar who scored 12 times in eight matches.[49] At the end of the qualifying campaign he had achieved 21 assists and 63 goals while playing for Germany, trailing Gerd Müller's German goalscoring record by five and playing almost twice as many international games for Germany compared to Müller.[50]

2014 World Cup

Klose has also said that the 2014 World Cup will be his last one for Germany, stating that he would like one more shot at trying to win the World Cup with Germany.[51][52][53]

Style of play

Klose is an exceptional header of the ball as he scored an astonishing five times in the World Cup with his head alone, which is the current record for scoring most goals from headers in a single edition of the World Cups.[54]

International goals

Scores and results table. Germany's goal tally first:

Awards and honours

Club

Werder Bremen
Bayern Munich
Lazio

National team

Germany

Individual

Personal records

Career statistics

Club

As of 30 March 2014[57]
Club Season League Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1. FC Kaiserslautern 1999–2000 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
2000–01 29 9 4 0 12 2 45 11
2001–02 31 16 4 0 - - 35 16
2002–03 32 9 4 4 0 0 36 13
2003–04 26 10 1 1 2 1 29 12
Total 120 44 13 5 14 3 147 52
Werder Bremen 2004–05 32 15 5 0 8 2 45 17
2005–06 26 25 5 2 9 4 40 31
2006–07 31 13 3 0 13 2 47 15
Total 89 53 13 2 30 8 132 63
Bayern Munich 2007–08 27 10 8 6 12 5 47 21
2008–09 26 10 4 3 8 7 38 20
2009–10 25 3 5 2 8 1 38 6
2010–11 20 1 4 3 2 1 26 5
Total 98 24 21 14 30 14 149 52
Lazio 2011–12 27 13 2 0 6 3 35 16
2012–13 29 15 2 0 5 1 36 16
2013–14 22 7 1 0 3 1 26 8
Total 78 35 5 0 14 5 97 40
Career totals 382 155 52 21 88 30 522 206

* Includes DFB-Ligapokal and DFL-Supercup.

National

Germany national team[58]
Year Apps Goals
2001 7 2
2002 17 12
2003 10 1
2004 11 5
2005 5 0
2006 17 13
2007 5 3
2008 15 8
2009 6 4
2010 12 10
2011 8 5
2012 13 4
2013 3 1
2014 1 0
Total 131 68

Fairplay

At the end of September 2012, Klose scored a goal using his hand against Napoli. Klose admitted this to the referee, who then took back his decision for the goal, spared Klose from a yellow card and shook his hand.[59][60]

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