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Miroslav Klose Profile |
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Birth Date: June 9, 1978
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Birth Place: Opole, Poland
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Birth Name: Miroslav Klose
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Height: 6'0"
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Biography |
Miroslav Klose (born Mirosław Marian Kloze, June 9, 1978 in
Opole, Poland) is a German footballer who plays as a
striker. He currently plays for Werder Bremen in the
Bundesliga, as well as the German national football team.
He was the top scorer and thus the Golden Boot winner of the
2006 World Cup hosted by his country Germany, with 5 goals.
Klose also scored 5 goals in his debut World Cup, the 2002
World Cup hosted jointly by the Korea Republic and Japan,
giving him a total of 10 goals in World Cup finals. He is
the first player representing unified Germany to finish as a
World Cup finals top scorer, and the only player to have
scored 5 or more goals in consecutive World Cups.
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, was a footballer, reaching the
Poland national soccer team. In 1981, the Kloses escaped
communist Poland, moving first to France, then, in 1987, to
Kusel, Germany; Miroslav Klose's father is from an ethnic
German family and thus could resettle as Aussiedler. Shortly
after settling in Germany, the Klozes changed their
Polonized surname back to Klose, the surname of his German
grandfather, Erwin Klose, born in 1910 in Upper Silesia.
With his wife Sylwia, Miroslav has twins: Luan and Noah,
born in Germany on January 30, 2005.
Klose learned his football at a village club,
Blaubach-Diedelkopf, in the German seventh division. After a
season at FC Homburg, he eventually joined the amateur
division of FC Kaiserslautern. He used to watch the pros
from the stands.
A year after joining the club he made it into the first
team. In his first 67 matches, Klose scored 33 goals. His
consistency as a goal-scorer earned him his first
international cap and he made his debut against Albania on
March 24, 2001. Germany won the match 2-1, with Klose
scoring Germany's second goal.
In the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea-Japan, he scored five
goals for the German national 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.
The 2002-2003 season was a comparatively disappointing one
as Klose found the back of the net a mere 7 times.
He transferred to Werder Bremen in 2004 for a sum of €5
million. After a lacklustre start, Klose formed an
impressive attacking triangle with French midfielder Johan
Micoud and Croatian forward Ivan Klasnić (as well as, less
frequently, Paraguayan forward Nelson Valdez), scoring 15
goals in the Bundesliga.
Despite his relatively slender frame, Klose is one of the
best headers of the ball in the Bundesliga. 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 2005/06 season he scored 25 goals and
registered 16 assists in just 26 games in the Bundesliga.
Klose was named to his second successive World Cup team for
Germany 2006. 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 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 penalties. Klose is the first German
since Gerd Müller in 1970 to become the top scorer at a
World Cup finals, 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.
Since the world cup Klose has often been linked by
newspapers to European Top Clubs such as FC Barcelona,
Juventus Turin and Bayern Munich and a transfer in summer
2007 is probable.
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
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Other Information |
Favourite actor is Nicolas Cage.
Scored five goals for the German national team in the 2002
FIFA World Cup of soccer, finishing as one of the top
scorers of the tournament.
Declined to play for the Polish national team, preferring to
wait for Germany.
His wife Sylwia gave birth to twins Luan and Noah on January
30th 2005.
His mother Barbara was a member of the Polish national
handball team, his father Josef Klose an ethnic German was
among other things a professional soccer player for AJ
Auxerre.
Top scorer of the 2006 World Cup with 5 goals, giving him a
total of 10 goals in World Cup finals.
Highest scorer in the Bundesliga season 2005/06 with 25
goals for Werder Bremen.
Owns a Doberman.
Enjoys listening to hip-hop and rap music. |
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i love children,,
esspecially luan und noah,,
i want to meet with his son's
he is so cool,,
and i'm werder's fans