The striker of the German national team and the best scorer
in the World Cup with a total of sixteen goals, who managed during his sports
career to win many titles and awards, whether on German or international soil.
Biography of Miroslav
Klose
Miroslav Klose, the best scorer in the history of the World
Cup. German by nationality and born in Poland, he is considered by many to be
one of the most important soccer scorers ever, as during his playing years he
won many titles and set many records, as he maintained them, and only him
surpassed them for a long time.
Klose was born in Poland, but he moved with his family to
live in Germany when he was a child, and although he had the opportunity to play
on behalf of Poland, he chose to play a German representative.
Klose began his career in the world of sports by playing for
clubs on a small scale, before moving to join the ranks of Kaiserslautern,
where he spent five years full of success with him, and then moved on to join
Werder Bremen. Klose ended up playing for Bayern Munich, Germany's biggest
club. During his sports career, the player showed a remarkable ability to score
goals, as he scored many of them for the German national team and won many victories
for it.
Klose's global fame came on the back of his participation in
the World Cup finals, where he scored sixteen goals over four tournaments, the
highest number in the history of the tournament. In addition, Klose became the
player with the most goals in the history of the German national team, after
scoring 71 goals in total, breaking the number previously achieved by German
legend Gerd Muller.
The beginnings of
Miroslav Klose
Miroslav Klose was born on June 9, 1978 in Opole, Poland, to
his parents, Josef Klose, and his mother, Barbara Jez, and it is beautiful that
both of them have a long history in the world of sports, as his father was a
professional soccer player who played for Odra Club. Opole, while his mother,
Barbara, was also an athlete, having played handball for the Polish national
team.
Miroslav moved with his family in 1986 to Germany when he
was eight years old, and during his childhood he showed great passion for
football, and he used to play it permanently. At the same time, he learned the
profession of carpentry and became a professional as well, but he abandoned it
as his life took a completely different turn after he was chosen to join the
ranks of the Hamburg club in 1998, to move a year later to join the ranks of
Kaiserslautern.
Miroslav Klose
Achievements
Miroslav appeared for the first time with Kaiserslautern in
2000 during the German Football League, and during the following season he
scored sixteen goals for his club and became the player with the most goals in
the league.
Despite all the fame he gained at that time, his real fame
came in 2002 against the background of his first participation in the World Cup
matches with the German national team, where he scored five goals for Germany,
which ended up in second place against Brazil.
Klose spent five years in the ranks of Kaiserslautern,
during which he scored forty-four goals in one hundred and twenty games, after
which he moved in 2004 to play for Werder Bremen. In the same year, he
participated in the European Championships, but he was unable to score any
goal, as the German team was eliminated in the group stage.
Klose reappeared on the grounds of the World Cup in 2006,
scoring five goals for Germany and bringing them to the semi-finals of the
tournament. The following year, he announced his departure from Werder Bremen,
after playing with him for three seasons, and chose to move to the largest and
most important German club, Bayern Munich, where he began scoring victories
directly, enabling the club to win the league title and the German Football
Association Cup, all by the end of the season. His first season with the club.
In 2008, during the European Union Championships, Klose
headed the German offensive plan, scoring two goals that enabled the team to
secure second place in it. Klose also appeared in the 2010 World Cup, which was
held in South Africa, and scored four goals against Germany that led Germany to
the semi-finals. In the same year, Klose managed to win the German Super Cup
with his team, Bayern Munich, until he decided the following year to leave the
ranks of the team to join the Italian team, Lazio, after he had scored
twenty-four goals in the league. Klose continued to play for Italian Lazio,
scoring forty-eight goals in 125 league games.
The year 2014 came with tremendous success for the German
player, as he was chosen again to participate in the World Cup of that year,
which was hosted by Brazil, and he scored two goals, as a result of which he
became the striker with the most goals in the World Cup at the age of
thirty-six, and he also became the best scorer in the history of Germany, after
scoring a total of 69 goals, ahead of Gerd Muller by one goal.
After the German team returned home victorious in the 2014
World Cup, Klose announced his retirement from international football and that
his participation in the World Cup would be his last, after he won for his
country.
On November 1, 2016, the German national team signed a
contract with Klose to become part of the national team's coaching staff. Klose
stated: "I celebrated my greatest success with the national team and it
was a wonderful and unforgettable period. That's why I'm happy to be back in
the German Football Association. In the past few months, I've thought a lot
about continuing my football career. , but also about pursuing other avenues,
such as To become a coach.
On May 11, 2018, Bayern Munich appointed Miroslav Klose as
coach of the under-17 team, and Klose signed a two-year contract until the end
of June 2020. On May 7, 2020, Klose signed a one-year contract to become
assistant manager of the first team of Bayern Munich under Hansi Flick, but he
left Bayern Munich in May 2021.
In addition to being the highest scorer during the World Cup
in FIFA history, Klose was awarded the 2006 German Player of the Year award.
Among the titles won by Klose as well, is that he is the
only soccer player who gets four or more medals in a row during the World Cup,
and he is also the only player who participates in four consecutive matches or
more in the semi-finals of the World Cup.
Klose is known for his distinctive headers, and he holds the
title for the most header player in one season of the World Cup.
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