Title: Jürgen Klinsmann Content: Jürgen Klinsmann (, 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. Since August 2011 Klinsmann is coaching the American soccer national team. == 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. In the youth he played by Geislingen. The first station of his professional career was Stuttgarter Kickers. His career as player ended in 1998 after the World cup in France, as Germany was separated versus Croatia from the tournament. He played for the U-21 and the U-16 team of Germany, after that he played ten years for the A-Team. 1988 by the Summer Olympics in Seoul he had won the bronze medal. Jürgen Klinsmann has played 221 Bundesliga games and shot 110 goals there. In the national team of Germany he played 108 games and 47 goals. He shot by the World cups 1990, 1994 and 1998 altogether eleven goal and is after Gerd Müller the German player with the most Worldcup-goals.In August 2004 he became the national coach of Germany.At the World Cup 2006 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===  ==Honours== ===Player=== ====Club==== Inter Milan *Supercoppa Italiana: 1989 *UEFA Cup: 1990–91 Bayern Munich *Bundesliga: 1996–97 *UEFA Cup: 1995–96 ====International==== West Germany/Germany *FIFA World Cup: 1990 *UEFA European Championship: 1996; runner-up: 1992 *Summer Olympic Games: 1988 Bronze medal *U.S. Cup: 1993 ====Individual==== *Goal of the Year (Germany): 1987 *Bundesliga top scorer: 1987–88 *kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season: 1987–88 *Footballer of the Year (Germany): 1988, 1994 *FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1990 *Premier League Player of the Month: August 1994 *Tottenham Hotspur Club Player of the Year: 1994 *FWA Footballer of the Year: 1994–95 (Tottenham Hotspur) *Premier League PFA Team of the Year: 1994–95 *ESM Team of the Year: 1994–95 *IFFHS World's Top Goal Scorer: 1995 *Ballon d'Or runner-up: 1995 *FIFA World Player of the Year Bronze award: 1995 *UEFA Cup Top Scorer: 1995–96 *FIFA XI: 1996, 1999 *FIFA 100 ===Manager=== ====International==== Germany *FIFA World Cup third place: 2006 *FIFA Confederations Cup third place: 2005 United States *CONCACAF Gold Cup: 2013, runner-up: 2011 *CONCACAF Cup runner-up: 2015 ====Individual==== *German Football Manager of the Year: 2006 *CONCACAF Coach of the Year: 2013 ==Literature== * Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Strategen des Spiels – Die legendären Fußballtrainer, Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2005, , S. 332ff. * Jens Mende: Jürgen Klinsmann – Wie wir Weltmeister werden, Südwest-Verlag, München 2006, . * Michael Horeni: Klinsmann. Stürmer Trainer Weltmeister. Scherz, Frankfurt/Main 2005, .