The highest goalscorer in the history of the Fifa World Cup is another one of football’s late bloomers who have since gone on to win superlative honours.
At the age of 19 years, the age by which Messi and Ronaldo were already scoring goals for their national teams, Klose was training to be a carpenter and playing amateur football in the seventh division of the German league. He was sent home on the first day of training at an amateur club with the words,”You’d be better off learning another job because you’ll never have a career as a footballer.” Clearly not all German coaches could look beyond Klose’s frail stature and spot the store of goals that the man held.
Klose continued his training as a carpenter before being finally selected for the first team at Kaiserlauten at 22 years of age. Only two years later, Klose shone on the world stage in the 2002 World Cup and there has been no looking back at carpentry ever since.
Klose’s attempts rarely hit the woodwork, contrary to his earlier association with wood, and his proclivity for finding the net helped both Germany and him.
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