Miroslaw Klose was one of Germany’s most successful strikers. As a coach, his career is still stalling. If he has his way, it should pick up speed again quickly.
World Cup record scorer Miroslav Klose still hopes for a quick return to coaching. “If it’s up to me, as quickly as possible. They say that if you sit at home for a long time, the ceiling will fall on your head. So it fell on me a long time ago,” said the 45-year-old ex-professional footballer in one Interview by “Münchner Merkur/tz”.
“I would like to take on a new job as quickly as possible. But it just has to be right,” Klose continued. “Conversations with my former club Altach showed me that it is important that the things that were discussed are implemented after starting work. Unfortunately, many things that were agreed upon did not happen there. That is also a lesson learned.”
Until March last year, Klose worked as a coach for SCR Altach in Austria. Previously, he worked at the FC Bayern Campus in the youth development team for the German soccer record champions and as an assistant coach under Hansi Flick with the Munich professionals.
Klose’s plan with the second division teams
The former Bundesliga professional used the time to prepare for various tasks. “I watched a lot of games live and made a plan for it. I said to myself, I’ll play five to six games in the second division and then I’ll see who is a little further back in the table.” , reported Klose.
“I followed Braunschweig, Rostock and also my former club Kaiserslautern more intensively: How do they play? What could be done better with the existing squad? I wrote my reports about them. It was also important to me that – if it ever happened Should it happen that these clubs part ways with a coach – I’m quite far ahead and can present my plans there straight away,” explained Klose.
Return to Kaiserslautern failed
He said that “unfortunately” he did not return to Kaiserslautern. “Dimitrios Grammozis won the race. I wish him only the very best. I have nothing to blame myself because, in my opinion, I did it very intensively and well.” The relegation-threatened second division team from the Palatinate replaced Dirk Schuster, who was on leave, with Grammozis at the beginning of December, but is still in crisis.
He also watched international games and dealt a lot with scouting, game analysis and transfer dynamics. “I’m also very interested in how things are going with my former protégés. I’ve also brushed up on my language skills in Polish, Italian and English,” said Klose.