There are now more than enough material: photos, moving images, sound recordings. Whatever you take now, it is a piece of evidence, every picture, every video, every audio file. All of this prove that Miroslav Klose is no longer a player. To be precise, and that is the actual message, he is no longer a former player: Miroslav Klose, 46, is now a coach.
He looks like one, he speaks like one – and above all he acts like one. The fact that this can go through as a novelty in the first international break in 2025 has to do with the path behind Klose. When he came to Nuremberg last summer, he was introduced as a new coach, but it was always in the subtitle: ex-professional, former FC Bayern player-and above all: world champion 2014 and the best goal scorer in World Cup history.
All of this swung from the beginning because Klose as a center forward has now made a world career. A few months later, however, he provided his profile as a trainer with such clear contours that he emancipated himself more and more from the player Klose. Even with the native skeptics and professional skiing limists in Nuremberg, Klose is now also recognized and respected as a trainer.
It may be a coincidence, but it actually took around nine months to give birth to the club trainer Klose. Now it is clear that there is a proven player developer on the sidelines, a trainer with a pronounced sense of talents, a perfectionist, for details in daily work on the square are the greatest-and a football teacher who is considered a representative of the ball ownership, but is never a dogmatist, but is always a pragmatist.
Klose should never get rid of the subtitle from his previous life, but his career was just too big for that. If you close your eyes and imagine Klose, you can still see him in the national team’s jersey.
Anyone who thinks of Oliver Kahn may caught him how to do an attack on a Dortmund with a stretched leg. If Gem Giovane comes to mind, you can see him how to wrap himself in a banner during a goal celebration – and whoever thinks of Luca Toni, of course, has an eye in front of his inner eye. They all unite that they wear the jersey of a club. So far, Klose has only been seen in front of you in the shirt of the national team.
When the club last won in one season, 1977/78, he rose to the Bundesliga at the end of the season
During his time in Nuremberg, he has now done a lot to ensure that he is now connected to it from the folding tire of sitting on the sideline in a training suit. The fact that the coach Klose emancipates himself more and more from the player Klose has to do with how much he has moved in Nuremberg in recent months. Something is currently being created on the training area on the Valznerweiher – and that is also an earnings of Klose.
For years it was not even clear what this club actually stands for. An identity crisis also went hand in hand with an identity crisis that the FCN, as far as its football pounding is concerned, was an increasingly common second division. Who is the club? Is he just the nine -time German champion for all eternity, who no longer gets her feet in the present? And how does he actually want to reach people? Which football does he stand for?
Questions like these have been open for a long time, but that seems to be overcome now. As clear as the profile of the FCN as a talent smithy is now that of the trainer Klose. It can hardly be surprised that parallels have also been drawn to the 1977/78 season since the last week. At that time, the club had last won both Franksbys in one season and was at the end of the season, of course that was the punch line, to the Bundesliga.
Last Sunday, Klose won 3-0 against SpVgg Greuther Fürth and was only just below the 4-0 from the preliminary round. Now there are still eight games in which it will be decided which end the Nuremberg season takes. The club is free of play this weekend, after the international break, Jahn Regensburg is waiting, which is roughly the same as without play. And in April there are only duels with teams that are still part of the promotion race. So it is up to Klose’s team to judge it. And the good thing is: the ex-player Miroslav Klose is no longer on the sidelines, but the trainer Miroslav Klose.
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