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Miroslav Klose (born Mirosław Klose on June 9, 1978 in Opole, Poland) is a
striker for the Germany national football team. He currently plays for
Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga. His mother Barbara was a member of the
Polish national handball team (82 international matches), his father Józef
Klose played football for Odra Opole and AJ Auxerre. The family moved first
to France and then, in 1987, to Kusel in Germany.
Miroslav Klose learned his football at a village club, Blaubach-Diedelkopf,
in the German seventh division. Eventually he joined FC Kaiserslautern in
1999, but only the amateur wing. He used to watch the pros from the stands.
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A year after joining the club he made it into the first team and in his
first 62 matches scored 25 times. The frequency of his goals 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 the winning goal.
In the 2002 World Cup in Korea-Japan, he scored five goals for the German
national team, finishing as one of the top 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
sluggish start he formed an impressive partnership with Ivan Klasnić and
scored 15 times in the Bundesliga.
Despite his relatively slender frame, Klose is one of the best headers 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 strikers, if not the best. In the 2005/06 season he scored 25
goals and 16 assists in just 26 games in the Bundesliga.
Klose was named to his second successive FIFA World Cup team for the 2006
edition, and scored two goals in the opening win against Costa Rica.
"Miro" and his wife Sylwia welcomed twins Luan and Noah on January 30th
2005.
In the FIFA World Cup 2006's opening match against Costa Rica, which was
held on 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 in captain
Michael Ballack's absence. Germany is expected to play Poland in the next
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