Miroslav Klose

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Miroslav Klose
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Miroslav Klose (2016)
Personnel
Surname Miroslav Josef Klose
birthday June 9, 1978
place of birth Opole ,  Poland
size 182 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1987-1997 SG Blaubach-Diedelkopf
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1997-1998 SG Blaubach-Diedelkopf 0
1998-1999 FC 08 Homburg II 15 (10)
1998-1999 FC 08 Homburg 18 0(1)
1999-2001 1. FC Kaiserslautern Amat. 50 (26)
2000-2004 1. FC Kaiserslautern 120 (44)
2004-2007 Werder Bremen 89 (53)
2007-2011 FC Bayern Munich 98 (24)
2011-2016 Lazio Rome 139 (54)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2001-2014 Germany 137 (71)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2018-2020 FC Bayern Munich U17
2020– FC Bayern Munich (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Miroslav "Miro" Josef Klose ( Polish: Mirosław Józef Klose ; born June 9, 1978 in Opole , Poland ) is a German soccer coach and former player . In the course of his career in the Bundesliga, the striker was under contract with 1. FC Kaiserslautern , SV Werder Bremen and FC Bayern Munich as well as in Serie A with Lazio Rome . With FC Bayern he won the double twice and the Italian Cup once with Lazio Rome .

With 71 goals, he is the most successful goalscorer of the German national team , for which he played from 2001 to 2014. In 2014 he became world champion with the national team in Brazil and with his 16th goal in front of the Brazilian Ronaldo (15) he became the sole record goal scorer . He is also the only player to have appeared in four World Cup semi-finals.

Bayern Munich signed him in May 2018 for two years as the coach of his U17s, and since July 2020 he has been assisting Hansi Flick with the pros.

Life

Klose was the son of German-born soccer player Josef Klose and the former Polish handball national team player Barbara Jeż in the Upper Silesian Opole born. His father belonged to the German minority in Poland . A few months after Klose's birth, his father received a contract as a professional footballer with AJ Auxerre and the family moved to France for almost six years . After a year in Poland, he came to Kusel in the North Palatinate Bergland in 1985 with his parents and older sister as an emigrant . There he attended the local secondary and secondary school and then completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter . He then devoted himself primarily to football, initially as an amateur and later as a professional athlete .

Career

societies

Youth / amateur time

In his youth, Klose first played football at SG Blaubach-Diedelkopf. There he played after leaving the A-youth team in the district league West Palatinate (seventh division). In 1998 - as a 20-year-old - he moved to the regional league club FC 08 Homburg and played there both in the second team in the association league (fifth league) and in the regional league team (third league).

1. FC Kaiserslautern (1999-2004)

Klose (2006)

In 1999 he went to 1. FC Kaiserslautern and played there initially in the amateur team . In April 2000, in his first season, he made two substitutions in the Bundesliga . He played his first Bundesliga game on April 15, 2000 in the home game against Eintracht Frankfurt , when he came on for Jörgen Pettersson in the 76th minute . Klose made his breakthrough in the 2000/01 season , in which he was part of the starting eleven from the fifth match day and formed a successful storm duo together with Vratislav Lokvenc . He scored his first Bundesliga goal on matchday 9 against Werder Bremen . In the game against Energie Cottbus he received the first red card of his professional career. He was also one of the top performers in the Kaiserslautern team in the following years and scored 16 goals in the 2001/02 season , only two fewer than the top scorers Márcio Amoroso and Martin Max . After two weaker years, in which FCK was in danger of relegation despite nine or ten goals from Klose and the club's financial problems grew, he moved to Werder Bremen for the 2004/05 season for a transfer fee of five million euros .

SV Werder Bremen (2004-2007)

Klose in the Werder Bremen jersey (2006)

In Bremen, Klose signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2008. After a weak start, which put him on the bench and sparked criticism, he had his breakthrough on matchday 6 when he came on at half-time in the game against VfL Bochum and scored the first hat trick of his Bundesliga career. He then performed consistently well and replaced Bremen's top scorer Aílton , who had switched to FC Schalke 04 .

Klose, who had previously been considered a specialist in headed goals , also became more effective on the ground and developed into a team-friendly player, which was demonstrated by his nine assists (with 15 of his own goals) at the end of his first season in Bremen. In the 2005/06 season he was the top scorer in the Bundesliga with 25 goals in 26 games . In the same season, he was also the best player in the scorer ranking with his 14 assists. After a strong first half of the 2006/07 season , a series of eleven consecutive games without scoring followed in the second half of the season , which made him only hit 13 goals this season. Nevertheless, with his 16 assists, he again scored the most points this season .

After the international match of the German national team against Slovakia on June 6, 2007, Klose announced that he would play for Bayern Munich from summer 2008 at the latest .

Bayern Munich (2007-2011)

In the summer break of 2007, Klose moved to FC Bayern Munich. The parties have agreed not to disclose the transfer fee. His contract with FC Bayern Munich was valid for four years until June 30, 2011. Klose received the shirt with the number 18 on his back. His decision to move to FC Bayern, and in particular the circumstances of the transfer, met with criticism from Werder Bremen fans. Therefore he was z. B. whistled at its official farewell in Bremen on August 18, 2007.

With Bayern, Klose won the double of the German championship and the DFB Cup in 2008 and 2010 . In 2010 he and his team also reached the final of the Champions League , which was lost 2-0 to Inter Milan . At the end of the 2010/11 season , the club and the players could not agree on an extension of the expiring contract beyond June 30, 2011. With 121 goals at that time, Klose was the most successful Bundesliga scorer still active after Claudio Pizarro (156 goals) , although his goal rate at Bayern with less than 0.25 per game was significantly worse than at the previous clubs.

Lazio Rome (2011-2016)

Klose with captain's armband near Lazio Rome (2015)

For the 2011/12 season Klose moved to Lazio Rome on a free transfer . In the Italian capital he signed a three-year contract that tied him to Lazio until June 2014. His first competitive game in which he also scored his first competitive goal, he completed 18 August 2011 in the Europa League - qualifying match against FK Rabotnički . His first goal in the league, which was also the first goal of the Serie A season at the time , was scored by Klose on September 9, 2011 in the opening match against AC Milan . Because of his achievements, Klose was named the best German footballer active abroad in the preliminary round by the kicker sports magazine . In his second season for Lazio, he scored five goals on matchday 35 against Bologna , something that Roberto Pruzzo had achieved 27 years earlier . On May 26, 2013 he won the Italian Cup with Lazio Rome with a 1-0 win over city rivals AS Roma .

In May 2014, Klose extended his contract for one year with an extension option for another year. In the 4-2 win in the league game against Cagliari Calcio on November 3, 2014, he scored two goals within 60 seconds. In June 2015 he used his extension option, so that his contract with Lazio was valid until summer 2016. In May 2016, Klose announced that he would no longer renew his contract and left Lazio at the end of the 2015/16 season . He ended his playing career in early November 2016.

National team

Klose could choose between three national teams: Germany , where he had lived since he was 7 and his father had his roots, Poland , where he was born and where his mother came from, and France , where he lived six years after he was born. In February 2001, the Polish national coach Jerzy Engel traveled to Kaiserslautern to personally persuade the striker to play for the Polish national team. He declined, however, because he saw a chance of being appointed to the DFB- Elf. Klose never played for a junior national team.

Klose made his debut in the German national team on March 24, 2001 in Leverkusen when he beat Albania . Shortly before the end, he scored the decisive goal to make it 2-1. At the soccer World Cup in 2002 he was runner-up with the German national team and received the silver shoe for the tournament's second-best goalscorer for his five World Cup goals, all of which he scored with his head . No other player has scored five headed goals at a World Cup. He already scored all goals in the group stage and he headed three of them in the 8-0 win over Saudi Arabia in the first group game.

Klose at the 2006 World Cup

Klose also took part in the 2004 European Championship in Portugal with the national team, but hardly got a chance due to a previous injury. The year 2005 was also rather unfortunate for Klose in the national team: Due to an injury, he sat out in the Confederation Cup , only played five international matches and could not score a goal. However, due to his outstanding performance in the 2005/06 Bundesliga season and his team-friendly style of play, he was considered to be a regular player in his own country long before the 2006 World Cup .

In the opening game of the 2006 World Cup against Costa Rica , Klose scored two goals, as well as in the game against Ecuador . In the last 16 match of the German team, he was able to shine with two assists for his strike partner Lukas Podolski and played a major role in the 2-0 victory over Sweden . In the quarter-finals against Argentina , a 5-3 win on penalties , he scored his first header for the national team in almost three years with the equalizer to make it 1-1. These five goals made Klose top scorer at the 2006 World Cup (winner of the Golden Shoe ).

For the 2008 European Football Championship Klose of Germany coach Joachim Loew the squad called the German team. After he could not score a tournament goal in the group stage , he scored a header in a 3-2 win in the quarter-finals against Portugal to make it 2-0. He also scored the goal in the semi-finals against Turkey to make it 2-1 (final score 3-2 ).

Joachim Löw also appointed Klose to the squad for the 2010 World Cup . There were discussions in the German press and public as to whether Klose, who is supposedly in a form crisis, should even be nominated for the starting line-up of the first game after a less strong season at Bayern Munich. Coach Löw stuck to his most successful striker because of the trust he had often justified. In the first game against Australia he scored the second goal of the game, which Germany won 4-0 . In the second game against Serbia , Klose was sent off by the Spanish referee Alberto Undiano Mallenco after a yellow-red card for repeated foul play. In the round of 16 he scored the 1-0 against England , in the quarter-finals the 2-0 and 4-0 against Argentina .

Klose in the World Cup final in 2014

At the European Football Championship in 2012 he was again in the squad and shared the place as a striker in the German team with Mario Gómez . In the three group matches and in the semifinals he was substituted on for Gómez, in the quarter-finals against Greece , in which Klose scored 3-1 for Germany, Gómez was substituted on for him. The German national team was eliminated after a 2-1 defeat in the semi-finals against Italy. On September 6, 2013, Klose scored his 68th international goal in the World Cup qualifier against Austria with the 1-0 and drew level with Gerd Müller in the all-time scorers list of the national team.

In June 2014, Klose was nominated for the German squad for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil . On June 6, 2014, he scored 4-1 in a 6-1 win in the World Cup preparatory game against Armenia , replacing Gerd Müller as the national team's sole record scorer after almost 40 years. At the World Cup he was used for the first time in the second group game against Ghana and immediately after being substituted on he scored his 15th goal at a World Cup to make it 2-2 . With that he set the World Cup scoring record for the Brazilian Ronaldo . After another substitution in the third group game against the USA , Klose was not used in the round of 16 against Algeria . From the quarter-finals against France , however, he was part of the starting line-up until the final . On July 8, 2014, he scored his 16th World Cup goal in a 7-1 win in the semi-final against hosts Brazil with a 2-0 goal and thus became the sole record holder.

The 2014 World Cup final, which the team won 1-0 against Argentina , was Klose's last game for the national team. Less than a month later, on August 11, 2014, Klose announced his retirement from the national team. Together with the players Philipp Lahm and Per Mertesacker , who also retired from the national team after the World Cup , Klose was officially bid farewell to the national team on September 3, 2014 as part of the friendly against Argentina in Düsseldorf . He was no longer in the squad.

coach

After the end of his career, Klose completed an individual training program at the German Football Association from November 2016 in order to later acquire licenses as a coach and football teacher. He was an integral part of the senior national team and accompanied selected measures in the underground area.

From summer 2018, his first position was the U17 of FC Bayern Munich . In May 2018, Klose signed a contract that runs until 2020. In July 2020 he became assistant coach for the professional team under Hansi Flick . At the same time, he is taking part in the DFB's 67th football teacher course , which is taking place digitally for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Records

Total international matches

With 71 goals, Klose holds the record for international goals in the German national team. In the ranking of the most successful goal scorers of all national teams , he is only made up of six players Ali Daei (109), Cristiano Ronaldo (85), Ferenc Puskás (84), Pelé (77), Sándor Kocsis and Bashar Abdullah (75 each) and four Players whose goals are sometimes not taken into account by FIFA. In the 21st century , only Cristiano Ronaldo scored more international goals. Klose scored 32 international goals after his 30th birthday. No German player scored more goals at this age .

In the course of his career, Klose made 137 international matches and is only surpassed by Lothar Matthäus (150 games) in Germany , but just like Matthäus he has 87 wins.

World championships

Klose's 16 World Cup goals are the most in the history of the competition

In the ranking of the most successful men's World Cup goal scorers , Klose is at the top with 16 goals. Along with Pelé , Uwe Seeler and Cristiano Ronaldo, he is one of four players who have scored at least one goal each in four World Cups, with Klose and Seeler each scoring at least twice. Klose was the only player to score a World Cup goal on four different continents . He is also the only player in the world to have scored at least four goals in each of three World Cup finals. In two World Cup tournaments, he scored five goals each, which apart from him only his former teammate Thomas Müller and Peruvian Teófilo Cubillas achieved.

In addition, Klose is one of five players who won all three medals at a soccer world championship. While Klose won bronze at the 2006 and 2010 World Cups, silver in 2002 and gold in 2014, the other four players, also all Germans, Franz Beckenbauer , Horst-Dieter Höttges , Sepp Maier and Wolfgang Overath, won their medals in 1966 (silver), 1970 ( Bronze) and 1974 (gold).

As one of six Germans alongside Edmund Conen , Max Morlock , Gerd Müller , Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Thomas Müller , Klose scored three goals in a world championship game, although in contrast to Conen and Gerd Müller, he did not manage a classic (so-called 'flawless') hat trick .

Klose was involved in the most World Cup victories (17) and played the most knockout games (14). With a total of 24 World Cup appearances, he is internationally in second place behind Lothar Matthäus (25) and in front of Paolo Maldini (23). He is also the only player to date to have reached at least the semi-finals of four World Cups in a row. He achieved no worse placement than third place. Together with Pelé , he holds the longest period (twelve years) between two finals.

All World Cup games and goals
No. Gates Total goals date Result opponent AH/* venue occasion Remarks
01 3 03 0June 1, 2002 8-0 Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Saudi Arabia * Sapporo ( JPN ), Sapporo Dome World Cup 2002 , preliminary round Goals for 1: 0, 2: 0 (10th international goal) and 5: 0
02 1 04th 0June 5, 2002 1: 1 IrelandIreland Ireland * Kashima ( JPN ), Kashima Soccer Stadium World Cup 2002, preliminary round
03 1 05 June 11, 2002 2-0 CameroonCameroon Cameroon * Fukuroi ( JPN ), Shizuoka Ecopa Stadium World Cup 2002, preliminary round Klose was the first player to score five headed goals at a World Cup.
04th 05 June 15, 2002 1-0 Paraguay 1990Paraguay Paraguay * Seogwipo ( KOR ), Jeju World Cup Stadium World Cup 2002, round of 16
05 05 June 21, 2002 1-0 United StatesUnited States United States * Ulsan ( KOR ), Ulsan Munsu football stadium World Cup 2002, quarter-finals
06th 05 June 25, 2002 1-0 Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea A. Seoul ( KOR ), Seoul World Cup Stadium World Cup 2002, semi-finals
07th 05 June 30, 2002 0: 2 BrazilBrazil Brazil * Yokohama ( JPN ), International Stadium World Cup 2002, final
08th 2 07th 0June 9, 2006 4: 2 Costa RicaCosta Rica Costa Rica H Munich , FIFA World Cup Stadium Munich 2006 World Cup , preliminary round The goal to make it 2-1 was his 25th international goal.
09 07th June 14, 2006 1-0 PolandPoland Poland H Dortmund , Westfalenstadion 2006 World Cup, preliminary round
10 2 09 June 20, 2006 3-0 EcuadorEcuador Ecuador H Berlin , Olympic Stadium 2006 World Cup, preliminary round
11 09 June 24, 2006 2-0 SwedenSweden Sweden H Munich , FIFA World Cup Stadium Munich 2006 World Cup, round of 16
12 1 10 June 30, 2006 1: 1 a.d. , 4: 2 in E. ArgentinaArgentina Argentina H Berlin , Olympic Stadium World Cup 2006, quarter-finals As the second player after Teófilo Cubillas ( Peru , 1970 and 1978), he scored five goals twice in World Cup tournaments.
13 10 04th July 2006 0: 2 a.d. ItalyItaly Italy H Dortmund , Westfalenstadion 2006 World Cup, semi-finals
14th 10 0July 8, 2006 3: 1 PortugalPortugal Portugal H Stuttgart , Gottlieb Daimler Stadium World Cup 2006, game for 3rd place With five goals, Klose was the top scorer at this World Cup.
15th 1 11 June 13, 2010 4-0 AustraliaAustralia Australia * Durban ( RSA ), Moses Mabhida Stadium World Cup 2010 , preliminary round
16 11 June 18, 2010 0: 1 SerbiaSerbia Serbia * Port Elizabeth ( RSA ), Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium World Cup 2010, preliminary round Klose received the yellow-red card .
17th 1 12 June 27, 2010 4: 1 EnglandEngland England * Bloemfontein ( RSA ), Free State Stadium World Cup 2010, round of 16 50th international goal
18th 2 14th 0July 3, 2010 4-0 ArgentinaArgentina Argentina * Cape Town ( RSA ), Green Point Stadium World Cup 2010, quarter-finals Klose's 100th international match; with his World Cup goals 13 and 14, he drew level with Gerd Müller .
19th 14th 0July 7, 2010 0: 1 SpainSpain Spain * Durban ( RSA ), Moses Mabhida Stadium World Cup 2010, semi-finals
20th 1 15th June 21, 2014 2: 2 GhanaGhana Ghana * Fortaleza ( BRA ), Estádio Plácido Aderaldo Castelo World Cup 2014 , preliminary round With his 15th goal at a World Cup, Klose set Ronaldo's record .
21st 15th June 26, 2014 1-0 United StatesUnited States United States * Recife ( BRA ), Arena Pernambuco World Cup 2014, preliminary round
22nd 15th 04th July 2014 1-0 FranceFrance France * Rio de Janeiro ( BRA ), Estádio do Maracanã 2014 World Cup, quarter-finals
23 1 16 0July 8, 2014 7: 1 BrazilBrazil Brazil A. Belo Horizonte ( BRA ), Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto World Cup 2014, semi-finals Klose was the first player to make it into a World Cup semi-final for the fourth time and became the sole record scorer with his 16th World Cup goal.
24 16 July 13, 2014 1: 0 a.d. ArgentinaArgentina Argentina * Rio de Janeiro ( BRA ), Estádio do Maracanã World Cup 2014, final 137th and last international match

successes

Klose (front row, center) after winning the 2014 World Cup

National team

society

Individual successes

Awards

At the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea , Klose was awarded the Silver Shoe as the second best goalscorer (5 goals) . At the 2006 World Cup in Germany , Klose was the second German after Gerd Müller in 1970 to be awarded the Golden Shoe for the best goalscorer. During the 2006 World Cup, he was voted “ Man of the Match ” twice by the FIFA Technical Study Group (TSG) (games against Costa Rica and Sweden ). After the semi-finals of the 2006 World Cup, he was named by FIFA for the Allstar team . On August 14, 2006, October 5, 2010 and November 10, 2014 he received - like all players of the German national team - the Silver Laurel Leaf from the German Federal President .

In August 2006, Klose was voted Footballer of the Year by German sports journalists with a large majority . In the 2005/06 season , Klose was not only the top scorer in the Bundesliga with 25 goals in 26 games , but also surpassed (with 14 assists) with a total of 39 points the record set by Aílton in the previous season in the scorer list since the 1995/96 season of the sports magazine kicker . Classification as world class in the ranking list of German football : Summer 2006 .

In the same season, Klose was also named footballer of the month twice in October 2005 and May 2006 . Miroslav Klose had already stood for election when he was voted Player of the Month in September 2005. He was also elected VdV player for the 2005/06 season by the members of the Association of Contract Footballers (VdV) . In this election he received 64% of the vote. In a survey by the specialist magazine kicker, 249 Bundesliga professionals voted Klose the best field player of the 05/06 preliminary round with 38.3% and the best field player of the season by 46.8% (233 participants). At the end of the season he was named the best player of the 2005/06 season by the television station Premiere .

On September 28, 2005, Klose was voted “Player of the 2004/05 Season ” by visitors to the Werder Museum “Wuseum” . A total of 5,000 visitors voted, and Klose won the election with 25% of the vote.

In the election for European Footballer of the Year 2006 , Klose came seventh as the best German. In the election for athlete of the year 2006 , he came third.

On September 11, 2014, the Germany Foundation Integration honored Klose with the Golden Victoria award . The eulogy held German Chancellor Angela Merkel . She praised Klose as a "wonderful role model for football as well as for good cooperation in everyday life".

Gentlemen's Quarterly magazine named Klose “GQ Man of the Year 2014” in the sport category. On November 13, 2014, Klose received the jury's honorary award together with Philipp Lahm at the Bambi Awards . Bastian Schweinsteiger gave the laudatory speech .

In 2018, Klose was awarded the St. George's Order of the Dresden Semper Opera Ball.

On February 28, 2018, Klose was made an honorary citizen of his hometown Opole.

Fair play

For his fair behavior during the Bundesliga match on the 31st match day of the 2004/05 season between Werder Bremen and Arminia Bielefeld on April 30, 2005 (final score 3-0), Klose received the fair play plaque of German sports from the German Olympic Society , from the Association of German Sport Journalists (VDS) the fair play trophy and from the DFB the DFB medal Fair is more . When the score was 0-0, the referee had given Werder Bremen a penalty . Klose then told the referee that the opposing goalkeeper had properly separated him from the ball in the penalty area and not fouled. The referee Herbert Fandel then withdrew the penalty decision and the yellow card against goalkeeper Mathias Hain .

On the fifth match day of the 2012/13 season in the Italian Serie A , Klose scored an illegal goal for Lazio Rome in the fourth minute of the game against SSC Napoli with his hand. After protests by the opponents, Klose told the referee that his hand was on the ball when he hit. The gate was then not given; Lazio lost the game 3-0. For this he received the DFB medal Fair ist mehr for the second time and the violet card from AC Florence , an award for honesty and fairness in sport.

useful information

Klose often celebrated his goals with a somersault forward, which earned him the nickname "Salto-Klose". He later renounced it due to the risk of injury, but showed the somersault again for important goals.

Klose is considered to be very attached to home. He has been married to a Polish woman since December 31, 2004 and has twin sons (* 2005). Klose often speaks Polish with his family or colleagues, such as his former national team colleague Lukas Podolski , who is also from Poland . In addition to Polish and German, he speaks fluent Italian and English . He was also able to speak French in his childhood , but has forgotten how to do it over time.

In the music video for the song Hope by the rock band Room77, Klose works with Philipp Lahm and Mario Gómez .

He and his family are members of the Roman Catholic Church . Klose was an altar boy and carol singer . He and his wife were in a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI on March 6, 2012 . received in the Vatican .

Klose volunteered for the German bone marrow donor database and advertised stem cell donation nationwide on posters in 2008 and 2010 .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Miroslav Klose  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  47. ↑ Bambi Gala in Berlin: Prizes for Thurman and Fischer , sueddeutsche.de, accessed on November 13, 2014.
  48. ↑ Miro Klose przyjedża dziś do Opola, by odebrać honorowe obywatelstwo miasta. Otwarte spotkanie w ratuszu , nto.pl, February 28, 2018, accessed on February 28, 2018 (Polish).
  49. ↑ Italy celebrates fair toilets: "He deserves a price for that". In: Spiegel Online . September 27, 2012, accessed June 9, 2018 .
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  55. ↑ A stubborn Bambi interview with Miroslav Klose in: Der Spiegel from December 17, 2007, issue 51/2007.
  56. ^ Klose al passo d'addio: “Lotito non ha fatto nulla per trattenermi” on YouTube
  57. ↑ Miroslav Klose speaks after 2-2 draw with Ghana on YouTube
  58. ↑ The silent World Cup hope and the Polish dream of May 20, 2002, published in the FAZ
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personal data
SURNAME Klose, Miroslav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klose, Miroslav Josef (full name); Klose, Mirosław (Polish spelling); Klose, Mirosław Józef (full Polish spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Opole , Poland