{"id":83186,"date":"2016-11-02T05:21:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T05:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/klose-bids-adieus-from-the-football-pitch\/"},"modified":"2016-11-02T05:21:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T05:21:04","slug":"klose-bids-adieus-from-the-football-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/klose-bids-adieus-from-the-football-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Klose bids adieus from the football pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"327\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/11 Novomber\/2 Nov\/Klose Football German.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BERLIN (SW):&nbsp;Germany&#39;s all-time leading goal scorer Miroslav Klose has retired from playing profession football, and would now test his skills as coach off the field.<\/p>\n<p>The former Bayern Munich striker, 38, helped his country win the World Cup in 2014, becoming the record scorer in the tournament&#39;s history with 16 goals. Klose, a two-time Bundesliga winner with Bayern, was without a club after his Lazio contract expired last season.<\/p>\n<p>He now plans to join Germany&#39;s coaching staff after an invitation from manager Joachim Low. &quot;We&#39;re looking forward to Miro,&#39;&#39; the Guardian has quoted Low, who this week extended his contract through to the 2020 European Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Poland-born Klose made the first of his 137 international appearances in 2001 and broke Gerd Muller&#39;s 40-year-old record of 68 goals in June 2014. He retired from international football after helping Germany win the World Cup two years ago. He scored 71 goals for his country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the German football association (DFB), in consultation with L&ouml;w and the technical director, Hansi Flick, Klose will now undergo an individual training program &ldquo;with the clear aim of embarking on a coaching career&rdquo;. Klose, who played 137 games for Germany, said: &ldquo;I celebrated my greatest successes in the national team and this was a wonderful time which remains unforgettable.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (SW): Germany s all-time leading goal scorer Miroslav Klose has retired from playing profession football, and would now test his skills as coach off the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}