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Jürgen Klinsmann

Jürgen Klinsmann[1] (German pronunciation: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈkliːnsˌman], born 30 July 1964) is a German football player who started in Stuttgart, a club in Germany, when he was seventeen. In 1990 he won the FIFA World Cup with the Germany national team. Later, he also played for Internazionale Milano, Monaco, Tottenham Hotspur and Bayern Munich. In 2004 he became the coach of Germany national team, that was third in the World Cup of 2006. Taking his place in the German team is Joachim Löw. Klinsmann coached the United States men's national team from 2011 to 2016 and then Hertha BSC from 2019 to 2020. Since 2020, he has been manager for the South Korea national team.

Jürgen Klinsmann
2019-06-11 Fußball, Männer, Länderspiel, Deutschland-Estland StP 2039 LR10 by Stepro-2.jpg
Klinsmann in 2019
Personal information
Full nameJürgen Klinsmann[1]
Date of birth30 July 1964 
     (aged 61)
[1]
Place of birthGöppingen, West Germany
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Playing positionStriker
Youth career
1972–1974TB Gingen
1974–1978SC Geislingen
1978–1981Stuttgarter Kickers
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1981–1984Stuttgarter Kickers61(22)
1984–1989VfB Stuttgart156(79)
1989–1992Inter Milan95(34)
1992–1994Monaco65(29)
1994–1995Tottenham Hotspur41(20)
1995–1997Bayern Munich65(31)
1997–1998Sampdoria8(2)
1997–1998→ Tottenham Hotspur (loan)15(9)
2003–2004Orange County Blue Star8(5)
Total514(232)
National team
1980–1981West Germany U163(0)
1984–1985West Germany U218(3)
1987–1988West Germany Olympic14(8)
1987–1998West Germany / Germany108(47)
Teams managed
2004–2006Germany
2008–2009Bayern Munich
2011–2016United States
2019–2020Hertha BSC
2023–2024South Korea
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Player career

Before Jürgen Klinsmann became a professional soccer player, he worked as a baker-associated in the baker's shop of his father in Stuttgart-Botnang. When he was young he played for Geislingen. The first team of his professional career was Stuttgarter Kickers. His career as a player ended in 1998 after the World Cup in France, as Germany was eliminated from the tournament by Croatia. He played for the under-21 and under-16 teams, as well as for ten years for the A team. In the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul he won the bronze medal. Jürgen Klinsmann played 221 Bundesliga games and scored 110 goals. In the national team of Germany he played 108 games and scored 47 goals. He played in the World Cup tournaments in 1990, 1994, and 1998. He scored 11 goals in the World Cup - second only to Gerd Müller as the German player with the most World Cup goals. In August 2004 he became the national coach of Germany. At the 2006 World Cup in Germany he won the bronze medal. After that he resigned. From the 1st June 2008 he coached Bayern Munich until he was dismissed on the 27th April 2009.

Career statistics

Club

Inter Milan[3]

Bayern Munich[3]

International

Germany[3]

United States

Managerial

As of match played on 17 October 2023
Team From To Record
M W D L GF GA GD Win % Ref.
Germany 26 July 2004 11 July 2006 34 20 8 6 81 41 +40 58.82 [4][5][6]
Bayern Munich 1 July 2008[7] 27 April 2009[7] 44 25 9 10 96 50 +46 56.82 [8][7]
United States 29 July 2011[9] 21 November 2016 98 55 16 27 178 109 +69 56.12 [10][11][12][13][14][15]
Hertha BSC 27 November 2019 11 February 2020 10 3 3 4 10 15 −5 30.00
South Korea 27 February 2023 Present 8 3 3 2 15 6 +9 37.50
Total 195 107 39 49 388 221 +167 54.87 —

Honours

Player

Individual

Manager

Literature

  • Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Strategen des Spiels – Die legendären Fußballtrainer, Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89533-475-8, S. 332ff.
  • Jens Mende: Jürgen Klinsmann – Wie wir Weltmeister werden, Südwest-Verlag, München 2006, ISBN 3-517-08208-2.
  • Michael Horeni: Klinsmann. Stürmer Trainer Weltmeister. Scherz, Frankfurt/Main 2005, ISBN 3-502-15045-1.

Jürgen Klinsmann Media

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Jürgen Klinsmann". Barry Hugman's Footballers.
  2. ↑ "Jürgen Klinsmann". kicker.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Jürgen Klinsmann" (in Deutsch). fussballdaten.de. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Germany " Fixtures & Results 2004". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "Germany " Fixtures & Results 2005". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  6. ↑ "Germany " Fixtures & Results 2006". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Bayern München" (in Deutsch). kicker. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  8. ↑ "Bayern München". kicker.de (in Deutsch). kicker. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  9. ↑ (in de) Klinsmann trainiert das US-Team. 29 July 2011. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/intligen/startseite/555803/artikel_klinsmann-trainiert-das-us-team.html. Retrieved 29 January 2014. 
  10. ↑ "USA " Fixtures & Results 2011". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  11. ↑ "USA " Fixtures & Results 2012". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  12. ↑ "USA " Fixtures & Results 2013". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  13. ↑ "USA " Fixtures & Results 2014". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  14. ↑ "USA " Fixtures & Results 2015". Worldfootball.net. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  15. ↑ "USA " Fixtures & Results 2016". World Football. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  16. ↑ "'Trainer des Jahres' 2006: Jürgen Klinsmann" (in Deutsch). dfb.de. 9 August 2006. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  17. ↑ "The CONCACAF Awards 2013". concacaf.com. 13 December 2013. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2013.

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