ontd_football | Entries tagged with miroslav klose

blackjedii.livejournal.com

It is Miro's 37th! And he just re-signed a one year contract with Lazio so he is not done yet.

blackjedii.livejournal.com

here's your fun photo for the night:

( in other words i am bored )

also sometime recnetly Miroslav klose did an interview in Kicker magazine wherein I've only read bits and pieces including that Gomez is his successor in the NT (lies), that there are plenty of strikers to take up the baton (damned lies) and that it will be most difficult to replace Lahm as Lahm is weakness-free (statistics). If anyone wants to provide a full translation you will be my Squishy 4 Life.

the4thjuliek.livejournal.com

Philipp Lahm wants to retire in 2018.

Jogi sez: Forget Ballon d'Or, Lahm is best player of the decade.

Satan Bobby: I was wrong to vote for Crispy.

Real Madrid investigated by FIFA for irregularities in regards to youth player signings (which caused Barcelonas transfer ban).

Cristiano Ronaldo voted the best Portuguese player of all time on the 100th anniversary of the Portuguese FA.

Crispy Jr.'s favorite player is some guy named Messi.

Anderlecht's Dennis Praet wins the Golden Boot in the Belgian Pro League.

Werder Bremen want Miro back! (Mom and Miro reunion? I'm all for this)

Liverpool consider Australia goalkeeper Matthew Ryan as possible replacement for Simon Mignolet.

Manchester United sack European scout over racial slurs on Facebook.

No pictures, sorry :(

mundodeamor.livejournal.com

ZLATAN REVEALS HIS DREAM TEAM

GK Gigi Buffon: “the wall”
RB Lilian Thuram: “the animal”
CB Thiago Silva: “complete”
CB Fabio Cannavaro: “the pitbull”
LB Maxwell: “elegant, simple as that”
RW Andres Iniesta: “magic”
CM Patrick Vieira: “the leader”
CM Xavi: “perfect, very simple”
LW Pavel Nedved: “because he is a machine”
FW Lionel Messi: “genius”
FW Zlatan Ibrahimovic: “The God”

( FIFA Puskás Award and other newsclub )

Which 11 players would you have in YOUR Dream Team?

ladya-sama.livejournal.com

I don't know exactly wtf is going on over in Germany (some sort of award ceremony thingie that involves them getting silver leaves(?)), but THE BOYS ARE SUITED UP AND LOOKING DAPPER AS FUCK!!! :D

EDIT: Oh, the team's got one of these--the highest sports award in Germany! #proud

I spy Schweinski!

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jenny-jenkins.livejournal.com

Fuck me. I'm German and even I think this is sexy as fuck.

Miroslav Klose: "I'm always hungry."

Oh. Tell me more, baby.

And yeeeah Mats, you impossibly pretty thing. Tell me you love me. Tell me you want me. In English.

blackjedii.livejournal.com

Bild is reporting that Miroslav Klose intends to finish out his career in 2015.

It's Bild but... just in case.

blackjedii.livejournal.com

Aside from being the all-time scorer, he is also holding the record for most semis.
His record of when he scores Germany doesn't lose still holds.

And what does he do after the game? The first thing he does?
Goes over to hug and speak to Brazil's coach.

blackjedii.livejournal.com

Miroslav Klose is the best finisher in Europe - the Lazio hitman has a better shot-to-goal ratio than Messi, Ronaldo & Van Persie

The Germany legend is the most efficient elite striker from the Continent's five major leagues this season, while the likes of Luis Suarez are way down the rankings

Goal.com took the current five top scorers from the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga, and compared the number of shots they have had in their respective domestic leagues to the number of times they have found the back of the net.

Klose was the most efficient, converting 10 goals from his 31 shots at a success rate of 32.26 per cent. Nice forward Dario Cvitanich comes in second with the same number of goals arriving from just one more effort on goal, while Atletico Madrid’s Radamel Falcao takes third place with 17 goals from 58 attempts.
( You like charts? I like charts. )
granted the season is far from over and it is very difficult to compare strikers due to a number of different factors but RESPECT jogi r u listen r u listenin jogi?

blackjedii.livejournal.com

Very early in Napoli's match against Lazio at the San Paolo, Miroslav Klose scored off a corner kick to put Lazio up 1-0. While the Lazio players began to celebrate, Napoli protested the goal, saying that Klose scored with his hand, which he did. Klose then admitted his offense to the referee, who disallowed the goal, and the Napoli players showed their appreciation for Klose honesty by patting him on the back.

Napoli went on the beat Lazio 3-0, but it was the 34-year-old German legend who earned the lion's share of respect on the day. And making the incident even more enjoyable is the fact that he admitted his handball goal in the stadium that used to be the home of Maradona, the unrepentant perpetrator of the Hand of God goal.

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blackjedii.livejournal.com

FOOTBALL - Miroslav Klose could make his fifth appearance in a semifinal match in a major tournament (European Championship or World Cup) if he sees action in Germany’s Thursday semi against ~~Portugal~~ Italy. He would set a record if he takes to the pitch.

Most semifinal matches played at World Cups and European Championships
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Klose: I will not put my ego before the team
The former Bayern marksman has admitted he does not like being a substitute, but would never put himself before the collective effort

Germany forward Miroslav Klose has admitted he would not put his ego over what is best for the team, but has conceded he finds it hard starting on the bench for die Mannschaft.

"I will never put my ego before the team," Klose told German magazine Kicker. "I have never done, and will never do so."
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don't crush my dreams, Jogi.

jenny-jenkins.livejournal.com

The Preliminary Germany Squad. Pictures & Profiles From Zeit.de: Fully Translated!

There have been some very nice picture-posts of various national team call-ups. Here is a compilation (with individual, slightly tongue-in-cheek mini-biographies) of all the players in Germany's squad.

This list, and the mini-biographies are from Zeit.de's feature article and photograph gallery, and has been fully translated by

jenny_jenkins and

sashatwen

Coach

Joachim Löw

Average age of his squad: 24 years.
Number in the training camp: 27
Final decision on the 29th of May: 1 goal-keeper and 3 outfielders will be sent home from this list.

( Players & Mini-biographies Under The Jump... )

jenny-jenkins.livejournal.com

German National Team Not Aryan Enough For Butthurt Fabio Capello

(You know - that Italian manager who represents England).

Capello calls on Platini to act after swipe at Germans for ‘stealing talent’
By Matt Barlow (dailymail.co.uk)

"Odd ones out?" Let's play "spot the non-Aryan".

Fabio Capello has taken a swipe at Germany for adopting players of Turkish origin and called upon football’s rulers to end the drain of talent from poorer countries.

Capello is still haunted by England’s 4-1 defeat at the hands of the Germans in last summer’s World Cup and raised the issue of citizenship when he addressed the Dubai International Sport conference.

‘A line needs to be drawn,’ said the Italian. ‘Richer clubs are talent-scouting and stealing players by bidding higher and not thinking about the consequences for those countries.

‘These players are acquiring new passports. Germany had five of Turkish origin who opted to represent them and we all know what happened.’

Germany’s squad for the 2010 World Cup final in South Africa contained 11 players who could have qualified for other countries. Capello claims Turkey would have been far stronger with the ‘five’ who opted to represent Germany but his facts are muddled. Two players of Turkish descent were in Joachim Low’s squad — Mesut Ozil and Serdar Tasci — and both were born in Germany.

Miroslav Klose and Lukas Podolski, who both scored against England in Bloemfontein, were born in Poland. Podolski moved to Germany aged two and Klose aged seven.

( More Outrageousness Beneath... )

I would like to thank

dld_ftw for alerting me to this story, and for posting it on her beyond beautiful blog.

olivia-y.livejournal.com

Miroslav Klose became a Lazio hero on Sunday with his late winner against Roma, but he also got a taste of the more unsavory fascist segment of Mussolini's favorite club.

From the AP: An Associated Press photo showed Lazio supporters holding up a banner that said "Klose mit uns"—"Klose with us"—during Sunday's derby with Roma, with the S's written in old German script in the style of the SS.
The phrase is a takeoff on an old military slogan, "Gott mit uns"—"God with us"—that was also used by the Nazis.

The ANSA news agency reports Klose saying, "Football cannot be mixed with politics. Politics should remain outside the stadium."

In other words: "Please don't make Nazi-inspired signs about me."

Hopefully Lazio fans respect Klose's wishes and don't use the German striker (who was born in Poland) to push the Nazi theme any further. The chances of that happening seem pretty slim, though.

Source: Yahoo!Sport

Cross-posted at

loewsmiserables

Current Mood: annoyed

electorprince.livejournal.com

The sadness: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/926284/miroslav-klose-confirms-bayern-munich-exit,-jerome-boateng-linked?cc=5901

Klose, who has been linked with Lazio and Valencia, said: "I have had four beautiful and successful years at Bayern and I thank them warmly. It was special to play for this club."

Meanwhile, Rummenigge remains confident he can bring Manchester City's Jerome Boateng to the club.

>mfw

Seriously, I feel a little sick. Klose is one of my favorite strikers that's ever worn FC Hollywood colors, and one of my favorite Bundesliga players period. I may spend this Monday drunk, I haven't decided yet.

Boateng? Mite b cool. . .but at this price, cool doesn't seem real cool to me.

heathermooney.livejournal.com

Germany cruise past Kazakhstan
Germany 4-0 Kazakhstan
Miroslav Klose and Thomas Müller plundered two goals apiece as Joachim Löw's team maintained their 100% record in Group A.

( Germany dominates )

DUCKIE TURNS 25

25 YEARS AGO ONE OF THE MOST BADASS GOALIES WAS BORN.

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CACAU TURNS 30

Sauce

Pictures from daylife.com and tumblr

wall-upper.livejournal.com

Sepp Blatter will make way for a successor as FIFA president in four years' time if he is re-elected in June, he has announced.

Blatter is seeking a fourth term as FIFA president and is being challenged by Asian confederation chief Mohamed Bin Hammam.

The 75-year-old told UEFA's Congress in Paris on Tuesday that if he wins he will definitely stand down in 2015, saying: "You know very well that I am a candidate for the next four years as FIFA president but these will be the last four years for which I stand as a candidate."
He added: "Together we have the task of bringing together the adventure we have started.
"We want to ensure a better future for our youth."

The new president will be elected at a Fifa Congress which starts on 31 May.

With Bin Hammam vowing to increase Fifa's decision-making power and spread its considerable wealth, Blatter is facing his first challenge since Issa Hayatou took him on - and lost - in 2002.

Bin Hammam is also currently attending the Congress for European football's governing body, Uefa, as they lobby federation presidents for their vote on 1 June in Zurich.
Uefa members make up more than one quarter of the maximum 208 Fifa voters that Blatter and Bin Hammam will attempt to woo.
The winner needs a two-thirds majority of valid votes cast in the first ballot, or a majority in the second.

Fifa has set an 1 April deadline for other candidates to be nominated by a single member federation.
"We are in extra time," said Blatter, referring to the time left before the election. "Let's wait and see what the outcome will be."

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tag as u see fit
i could have sworn there was a "blatter infection" tag, maybe i just made that up

whatwouldwasdo.livejournal.com

ok so i saw these posted over at

bayernmunich, but i think they need a wider audience. i think you'll find they're an interesting alternative to the arsenal post from a few days ago

( werk werk werk werk werk werk )

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agajoanna.livejournal.com

I didn't see this topic - it's a big mistake, I think ;)
So: Bayern won, Schalke lost (I didn't watch the game, so I can't say much more ;)). The result was 2:0, Müller and Klose scored.