Complex sentence: In 1986, the then eight-year-old Miroslav joined his father in Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate and knew only two words of German.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1986, Miroslav Klose at the age of eight joined his father in Kusel in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate Germany. When Klose arrived in Germany in 1986, he knew only two words of German.