FOOTBALL CAREER OF JURGEN KLINSMANN Club Career - National Team Career - Coach Career Home - Who's He? - Latest News - Photo Album - Guestbook COACH CAREER of KLINSMANN : JUL 2004 to JUL 2006 Coach Career | WC 06 Beginning | Summary | Results | Scorers | Ending | The beginning of his coach career Klinsmann was appointed as the head coach of German National Soccer Team in July 2004 after the Germans' embarrassing journey in the 2004 European Championship in Portugal. His contract will last for two years and his major task is to lead Germany in the World Cup 2006 (check out for Klinsmann's news in WC06 or Germany's performance in WC06) on home soil. Although Klinsmann had coaching qualification, he had no coaching experience before, so it will definitely be a great challenge for Klinsmann. As a coach, Klinsmann stresses on physical and mental fitness and adopts the US's method of training player's fitness. He likes to play a direct, quick and attacking style of football. He also has great confidence on young players. All these attributes are going to bring revolutionary changes to the German football. Photo taken at a news conference at Frankfurt in July 2004 Klinsmann and his coaching colleague in the German National Team. From left to right: Klinsmann, Joachim Loew (assistant coach), Oliver Bierhoff (team manager) and Andreas Koepke goalkeeper coach). This photo was taken on 9 July 2006 in Berlin during a Fan Fest celebrating for Germany getting the 3rd place in the 2006 World Cup. Beginning | Summary | Results | Scorers | Ending | Summary of Klinsmann's coach career Team: German National Team Games played: 34 Win: 20 Draw: 8 Loss: 6 Goals scored: 81 Goals conceded: 43 Clean sheet: 12 Games that the team cannot score a goal: 3 Top goalscorers: Lukas Podolski (15 goals) Team form: (oldest) WDWWW LWDWW DWWDL WDLWL WDLWW DWWWW WDLW (latest) Achievement: 3rd in Confederations Cup 2005 (check out for Klinsmann's news during CC05) 3rd in World Cup 2006 Beginning | Summary | Results | Scorers | Ending | Results of the German National Team under Klinsmann's management No Date Match Type Home Score Away Scorer 34 8 Jul 06 World Cup 2006 (3rd place) Germany 3-1 Portugal Germany: Bastian Schweinsteiger (56); Own Goal (60); Bastian Schweinsteiger (78) Portugal: Nuno Gomes (88) 33 4 Jul 06 World Cup 2006 (Semi-finals) Germany ft:0-0 et:0-2 Italy Italy: Fabio Grosso (119); Alessandro Del Piero (120) 32 30 Jun 06 World Cup 2006 (Quarter-finals) Germany ft:1-1 et:1-1 pso:4-2 Argentina Germany: Miroslav Klose (80) Argentina: Roberto Ayala (49) 31 24 Jun 06 World Cup 2006 (Round of 16) Germany 2 - 0 Sweden Germany: Lukas Podolski (4); Lukas Podolski (12) 30 20 Jun 06 World Cup 2006 (Group A) Germany 3 - 0 Ecuador Germany: Miroslav Klose (4); Miroslav Klose (44); Lukas Podolski (57) 29 14 Jun 06 World Cup 2006 (Group A) Germany 1 - 0 Poland Germany: Oliver Neuville (90) 28 9 Jun 06 World Cup 2006 (Group A) Germany 4 - 2 Costa Rica Germany: Philipp Lahm (6); Miroslav Klose (17); Miroslav Klose (61); Torsten Frings (87) Costa Rica: Paulo Wanchope (12); Paulo Wanchope (73) 27 2 Jun 06 Friendly Germany 3 - 0 Columbia Germany: Michael Ballack (21); Bastian Schweinsteiger (37); Tim Borowski (69) 26 30 May 06 Friendly Germany 2 - 2 Japan Germany: Miroslav Klose (76); Bastian Schweinsteiger (80) Japan: Naohiro Takahara (57); Naohiro Takahara (65) 25 27 May 06 Friendly Germany 7 - 0 Luxembourg Germany: Miroslav Klose (5); Torsten Frings (pen 19); Lukas Podolski (35); Miroslav Klose (59); Lukas Podolski (pen 65); Oliver Neuville (90); Oliver Neuville (90) 24 22 Mar 06 Friendly Germany 4 - 1 United States Germany: Bastian Schweinsteiger (46); Oliver Neuville (73); Miroslav Klose (75); Michael Ballack (79) United States:Steve Cherundolo (86) 23 1 Mar 06 Friendly Italy 4 - 1 Germany Italy: Alberto Gilardino (5); Luca Toni (7); Daniele De Rossi (39); Alessandro Del Piero (57) Germany: Robert Huth (82) 22 12 Nov 05 Friendly France 0 - 0 Germany nil 21 12 Oct 05 Friendly Germany 1 - 0 China Germany: Torsten Frings (pen 52) 20 8 Oct 05 Friendly Turkey 2 - 1 Germany Turkey: Halil Altintop (25); Huseyin Cimsir (89) Germany: Oliver Neuville (90) 19 7 Sep 05 Friendly Germany 4 - 2 South Africa Germany: Lukas Podolski (12); Tim Borowski (46); Lukas Podolski (47); Lukas Podolski (56) South Africa: Shaun Bartlett (pen 28); Benedict McCarthy (50) 18 3 Sep 05 Friendly Slovakia 2 - 0 Germany Slovakia: Miroslav Karhan (pen 20); Miroslav Karhan (38) 17 17 Aug 05 Friendly Netherlands 2 - 2 Germany Netherlands: Arjen Robben (3); Arjen Robben (46) Germany: Michael Ballack (50); Gerald Asamoah (81) 16 29 Jun 05 Confederations Cup (3rd Place) Germany 4 - 3 Mexico Germany: Lukas Podolski (37); Bastian Schweinsteiger (41); Robert Huth (79); Michael Ballack (97) Mexico: Francisco Fonseca (40); Jared Borgetti (58); Jared Borgetti (85) 15 25 Jun 05 Confederations Cup (Semi-finals) Germany 2 - 3 Brazil Germany: Lukas Podolski (23); Michael Ballack (pen 45) Brazil: Adriano (21); Ronaldinho (pen 43); Adriano (76) 14 21 Jun 05 Confederations Cup (Group A) Germany 2 - 2 Argentina Germany: Kevin Kuranyi (30); Gerald Asamoah (51) Argentina: Juan Roman Riquelme (32); Esteban Cambiasso (74) 13 18 Jun 05 Confederations Cup (Group A) Germany 3 - 0 Tunisia Germany: Michael Ballack (pen 74); Bastian Schweinsteiger (80); Mike Hanke (89) 12 15 Jun 05 Confederations Cup (Group A) Germany 4 - 3 Australia Germany: Kevin Kuranyi (17); Per Mertesacker (23); Michael Ballack (pen 60); Lukas Podolski (88) Australia: Josip Skoko (21); John Aloisi (31); John Aloisi (90) 11 8 Jun 05 Friendly Germany 2 -2 Russia Germany: Bastian Schweinsteiger (30); Bastian Schweinsteiger (70) Russia: Alexander Aniukov (26); Alexander Kerzhakov (90) 10 4 Jun 05 Friendly Northern Ireland 1 - 4 Germany Northern Ireland: David Healy (pen 15) Germany: Gerald Asamoah (17); Michael Ballack (62); Michael Ballack (pen 66); Lukas Podolski (81) 9 26 Mar 05 Friendly Slovenia 0 - 1 Germany Germany: Lukas Podolski (26) 8 9 Feb 05 Friendly Germany 2 - 2 Argentina Germany: Torsten Frings (pen 28); Kevin Kuranyi (45) Argentina: Hernan Crespo (pen 40); Hernan Crespo (81) 7 21 Dec 04 Friendly Thailand 1 - 5 Germany Thailand: Sarayoot Chaikamdee (57) Germany: Kevin Kuranyi (34); Kevin Kuranyi (38); Lukas Podolski (73); Gerald Asamoah (84); Lukas Podolski (89) 6 19 Dec 04 Friendly South Korea 3 - 1 Germany South Korea: Dong-Jin Kim (16); Dong-Gook Lee (71); Jae-Jin Cho (87) Germany: Michael Ballack (24) 5 16 Dec 04 Friendly Japan 0 - 3 Germany Germany: Miroslav Klose (54); Michael Ballack (69); Miroslav Klose (90) 4 17 Nov 04 Friendly Germany 3 - 0 Cameroon Germany: Kevin Kuranyi (70); Miroslav Klose (78); Miroslav Klose (88) 3 9 Oct 04 Friendly Iran 0 - 2 Germany Germany: Fabian Ernst (5); Thomas Brdaric (53) 2 8 Sep 04 Friendly Germany 1 - 1 Brazil Germany: Kevin Kuranyi (17) Brazil: Ronaldinho (9) 1 18 Aug 04 Friendly Austria 1 - 3 Germany Austria: Martin Amerhauser (10) Germany: Kevin Kuranyi (2); Kevin Kuranyi (61); Kevin Kuranyi (73) No Date Match Type Home Score Away Scorer Index ft = Full time et = extra time pso = penalty shoot-out (Source: www.soccernet.com) Beginning | Summary | Results | Scorers | Ending | Klinsmann's best goalscorers Team: German National Team 15 Lukas Podolski 13 Miroslav Klose 11 Michael Ballack 10 Kevin Kuranyi 9 Bastian Schweinsteiger 5 Oliver Neuville 4 Gerald Asamoah 4 Torsten Frings 2 Tim Borowski 2 Robert Huth 1 Thomas Brdaric 1 Fabian Ernst 1 Mike Hanke 1 Philipp Lahm 1 Per Mertesacker Own Goal: 1 Total: 81 Beginning | Summary | Results | Scorers | Ending | The Ending (perhaps, Interlude) of his coach career After Klinsmann had successfully led the German National Soccer Team to the third place of the 2006 World Cup, he told German Football Association (DFB) on 11 July 2006 that he would not extend his contract with DFB (click here to read news clipping). This marks the end of Klinsmann's short national coach career. Hope that it is only an interlude but not the end of Klinsmann's coach career. Return to the pitch Klinsmann! Fans are waiting for you! This homepage is created by Gary Chow (Hong Kong) and best viewed with Mozilla Firefox | |