Josef Klose
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Józef Klose[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 3 October 1947 | ||
| Place of birth | Kandrzin-Cosel, Poland | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1966–1978 | Odra Opole | (36) | |
| 1978–1980 | AJ Auxerre | 57 | (11) |
| 1981–1984 | FC Chalon | 57 | (4) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Josef Klose (born 3 October 1947) is a former footballer. He is the father of former German national striker and 2014 world cup-winner Miroslav Klose.
Josef Klose began his career at Energetyk Sławięcice. From 1966 he was a forward for Odra Opole. In November 1978, the year his son was born, he joined French side AJ Auxerre [2] when in Ligue 2. He helped them get promoted in 1980 to Ligue 1 where he played 14 games, scoring twice. From 1981 to 1984, already in his mid-thirties, he played for fourth league side Châlons-sur-Saône FC.
He is married to Barbara Jeż, a former member of the Poland women's national handball team (appearing in 82 international matches as goalkeeper[3]).
His family, of Silesian-German ancestry, had been German citizens in the Province of Upper Silesia (until 1945) and thus could resettle in West Germany as Aussiedler,[4] which they did in 1985, settling down in Kusel.
References
- ↑ "HISTORIA OKS "Odra" Opole". Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ↑ UEFA.com
- ↑ uefa.com - Magazine Archived 2002-06-07 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Thomas Urban (2006-06-26). "Stolz von Oberschlesien - Der Vater von Miroslav Klose will nur eines nicht: als Pole gelten" (in German). Süddeutsche Zeitung online. Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2008-02-18.