Miroslav Klose (45), retired since 2016 after playing Lazio, Bayern, Werder Bremen and Kaiserslauternmany remember him more for his brilliant performance with the German national team, where scored 71 goals in 137 games.
The current coach explained the reasons that led him to leave football even though he could have extended his sports career. In his last active season, 15/16, at Lazio, he was directly involved in 15 goals.
”I stopped playing soccer because I didn’t recognize it anymore”
Germany’s all-time top scorer, world champion in 2014, stopped recognizing football as he knew it. ”I stopped playing soccer because I didn’t recognize it anymore. Now the young players are thinking about other things. When I was young, I only thought about training and becoming someone in this sport that I always loved. With Lazio and the national team, after every training session, I go into a bathtub full of ice to prevent injuries. But the young players in the team systematically refused. own him’.
”When they see me collecting the ball bags to put away at the end of training, they say to me ‘But who tells you to do that?’ At that moment I said to myself: ‘You’re 20 years old and you can’t help a 60-year-old worker?’ They care more if their boots match their socks. That’s why I told myself to stop. The football I knew is gone,” she said tearfully.
‘‘Young players today think first about cars, contracts with their sponsors and their new boots. Only after all these things comes football. For them, their image is the most important thing. While for me the only thing that matters is football in its purest form”, graduate.
Source: La Verdad
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