Late 2016 Miroslav Klose put an end to a spectacular career in which he was able to score more than 300 goals and lift the World Cup with the selection of Germany. After announcing his retirement he went to work together with Joachim Löw in the team of his country and later he did it in the coaching staff of Hansi Flick, in the Bayern Munich, although his main objective was to be a technical director.
At the beginning of May of this year he announced his departure from the German team champion of the Champions League, and although it was believed that it was because he would finally start his path as a coach alone, now the former footballer told why he had to leave the institution. During a handful of trainingyes, he had felt pain in one of his legs and then he decided to get checked out by the club’s doctors.
“It started almost three weeks ago, suddenly I had severe pain in my leg, which I couldn’t identify. Then, shortly before entering the Bayern hotel quarantine, I went to see our doctors for an examination, because the pain in my leg was getting worse. At first I thought it was a pinched nerve or something. The diagnosis was a bit shocking to me”, He told in dialogue with the magazine Kicker.
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“They discovered two thromboses in my leg. I was prescribed medication and immediately received special stockings that I now have to wear throughout the day. The doctors made it very clear to me that this situation should not be played with. For the first time I have been prescribed almost total rest. I can’t take a hit, I can’t jog, I can’t swim, but most of all I can’t play football. I almost went crazy in training ground. Not being able to kick or demonstrate the drills to the players … Just not being able to actively do anything: It was cruel! I could only stand on the edge of the field … That doesn’t work, I don’t want to and I can’t work as a coach. I realized in the days that followed that I don’t want to start my coaching career in professional soccer like that. All or nothing. I am clear that now it is about my health. Health must now be a priority ”.
On these days, Klose She is resting and taking medication and will have to wait until the end of June for a new evaluation to see how her condition has evolved.
Regarding his future, he anticipated: “Staying co-coach seems the wrong way to goEven if it had been a good match with Hansi Flick as the national coach, both in human and professional terms. But it would be the most comfortable way and I don’t want to go down that way. I have always chosen the rocky path ”.
Klose is the all-time top scorer in the World Cups with 16 shouts and he also had the luxury of lifting the trophy in 2014, when his team beat the Argentine team in Brazil. In addition, he won eight other titles, six of them with Bayern Munich, although he could never win the Champions League.
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