Behind a World Cup record: Miroslav Klose

The events that unfolded during Belo Horizonte’s Estadio Mineirao on 8 Jul 2014 were like no other in a story of a pleasing game. If it were a screenplay, it would have won an Oscar.

Decades from now, there will be football fans opposite a creation who can still remember accurately where they were on a dusk Germany kick Brazil 7-1 in a semi-final of a 2014 FIFA World Cup™. This remarkable, monumental confront even pennyless new belligerent in a prolonged and eventful story of a World Cup by apropos a tip semi-final improved ever inflicted in a competition, earning a nickname Mineiraço [Shock of a Mineirao] among Brazilian fans.

The contingent champions’ tour to feat that dusk began to benefit movement when Miroslav Klose scored his 16th World Cup idea to make it 2-0. In doing so, a striker surpassed a prior record hold by Brazil’s Ronaldo, who was examination on from a stands, and combined another critical footnote to his country’s shining place in a story books. “It’s an superb achievement, I’m gay for him,” Germany manager Joachim Low pronounced after a match.

The player
The male nicknamed Miro began his veteran career with Kaiserslautern 16 years ago and done his general entrance only a year later. After creation a name for himself with Die Roten Teufel, Klose won a DFB League Cup with Werder Bremen and finished a deteriorate as a Bundesliga’s tip goalscorer before relocating to Bayern Munich and collecting dual German championship titles, dual DFB Cups, a DFB League Cup and a DFB Supercup. In 2011, he sealed for Lazio, where he combined a Coppa Italia to his endless collection of silverware.

The 38-year-old helped Germany to their fourth World Cup pretension during Brazil 2014, carrying formerly finished as runner-up and second-highest goalscorer during Korea/Japan 2002. While he and his team-mates had to settle for third place on home territory 4 years later, Klose was awarded a adidas Golden Boot as tthe highest-scoring actor during a tournament. He and Germany finished in third place once again in South Africa in 2010. The world-class striker also represented his nation during UEFA EURO 2004, 2008 and 2012, even assisting them to strech a final opposite Spain in 2008.

“Lifting a Trophy in Brazil was a achievement of a childhood dream for me. we can't consider of a improved time to move a general section of my career to a close.” In Aug 2014, Klose late from general football with these difference after winning 137 caps and scoring 71 goals for his country. He finally hung adult his boots for good in Nov 2016.

The record
By scoring his 16th World Cup idea opposite A Seleção, Klose became a World Cup’s solitary record goalscorer forward of Ronaldo (15) and compatriot Gerd Muller (14). “There’s no doubt that it’s something really special for me,” a striker pronounced after a match. “You don’t knowledge things like currently really mostly and it’s not easy to put in a opening like that in a World Cup semi-final.”

Klose’s grand sum of 19 goals during vital general tournaments is a record for a European actor [Gerd Muller scored 18 – editor’s note]. He played a sum of 24 World Cup matches, a sum that also places him nearby a tip of a all-time contest appearances list forward of Paolo Maldini (23). Only associate countryman Lothar Matthaus (25) has stepped onto a representation during a world’s biggest football contest some-more mostly – nonetheless when it comes to knockout matches, Klose’s sum of 14 games places him forward of both Matthaus and Cafu.

This renouned figure has never been gentle in a spotlight – though on that remarkable, record-breaking dusk in Jul 2014, accompanied by goalkeeping manager Andreas Kopke, he was a initial to step behind out onto a representation to applaud with a German fans. Counting down from 5 to one, he triggered a Mexican call that trafficked during slightest partial of a approach around a differently forlorn Estadio Mineirao.

Even when creation history, Klose’s artless demeanour never wavered when he paid reverence to a actor whose total he eventually surpassed. “For me, Ronaldo is one of a best ever,” he pronounced after equalling a record. The Brazilian was likewise friendly on Twitter, saying: “Welcome to a club, Klose. we can suppose how happy we contingency be right now.” Regardless of who scored a many goals, both group will always be good champions.

Klose stopped by a FIFA World Football Museum in Zurich progressing in 2016 to relive his record-breaking tournament.

Article source: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2016/m=12/news=behind-the-world-cup-record-miroslav-klose-2861974.html