Juergen Klinsmann

Jürgen Klinsmann

Klinsmann in 2014
Personal information
Date of birth	(1964-07-30) 30 July 1964 (age 53)
Place of birth	Göppingen, West Germany
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Striker
Youth career
1972–1974	TB Gingen
1974–1978	SC Geislingen
1978–1981	Stuttgarter Kickers
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1981–1984	Stuttgarter Kickers	61	(22)
1984–1989	VfB Stuttgart	156	(79)
1989–1992	Inter Milan	95	(34)
1992–1994	AS Monaco	65	(29)
1994–1995	Tottenham Hotspur	41	(21)
1995–1997	Bayern Munich	65	(31)
1997–1998	Sampdoria	8	(2)
1997–1998	→ Tottenham Hotspur (loan)	15	(9)
2003	Orange County Blue Star	8	(5)
Total		514	(232)
National team
1980–1981	West Germany U16	3	(0)
1984–1985	West Germany U21	8	(3)
1987–1988	West Germany Olympic	14	(8)
1987–1990	West Germany	26	(7)
1990–1998	Germany	82	(40)
Teams managed
2004–2006	Germany
2008–2009	Bayern Munich
2011–2016	United States
Honours As player VfB Stuttgart Runner-up DFB-Pokal 1986 Runner-up UEFA Cup 1989 Inter Milan Winner Supercoppa Italiana 1989 Winner UEFA Cup 1991 Bayern Munich Winner UEFA Cup 1996 Winner Bundesliga 1997  Germany Runner-up FIFA World Cup 1986 Olympics 1988 Winner FIFA World Cup 1990 Runner-up European Championship 1992 Winner European Championship 1996 As coach  Germany FIFA World Cup 2006  United States Winner CONCACAF Gold Cup 2013
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Jürgen Klinsmann (German pronunciation: [ˈjʏʁɡŋ̩ ˈkliːnsˌman], born 30 July 1964) is a German football manager and former player who was most recently the head coach of the United States national team. As a player, Klinsmann played for several prominent clubs in Europe and was part of the West German team that won the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the unified German team that won the 1996 UEFA European Championship. One of Germany's premier strikers during the 1990s, he scored in all six major international tournaments he participated in, from Euro 1988 to 1998 World Cup. In 1995, he came in third in the FIFA World Player of the Year award; in 2004 he was named in the FIFA 100 list of the "125 Greatest Living Footballers".

Klinsmann managed the German national team to a third-place finish in the 2006 World Cup. On 12 July 2006, he officially announced that he would step down as Germany's coach after two years in charge and be replaced by assistant coach Joachim Löw. He took over as coach of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich in July 2008 when Ottmar Hitzfeld stepped down. On 27 April 2009, he was released early, even though he had won five of the previous seven league games and was only three points behind league leader VfL Wolfsburg. In the jointly initiated reforms at Bayern, it emerged there was a severe clash of opinions between coach and club management. On 29 July 2011, the U.S. Soccer Federation named Klinsmann the coach of the United States men's national team. In 2013 he won the CONCACAF Gold Cup with the United States and was named CONCACAF Coach of the Year 2013. He led the United States team to the last 16 of the World Cup in Brazil in 2014.