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Miroslav Klose scored 16 goals in the FIFA World Cup across four tournaments from 2002 to 2014, surpassing Ronaldo's previous record of 15 goals. He remains the all-time top scorer in World Cup history.
Miroslav Klose was born on the 9th of June 1978 in Opole, a city in Silesia, Poland. He accepted German citizenship at the age of 18 and represented the German national team, finishing as its all-time top scorer with 71 goals in 137 appearances.
Klose held a German passport and believed he had a genuine chance to play under German national team coach Rudi Völler. In a 2008 interview he acknowledged the choice was not easy and that if Polish officials had moved more quickly, he might have represented Poland instead.
Klose played for FC 08 Homburg, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Werder Bremen, Bayern Munich, and Lazio. He won league titles with Bayern Munich in 2007-08 and 2009-10 and the Coppa Italia with Lazio in 2012-13.
Klose twice refused to accept goals or decisions that favored him unfairly. In 2005 he asked a referee to rescind a penalty against Arminia Bielefeld, and in September 2012 he told the referee he had scored with his hand against Napoli, resulting in the goal being disallowed. He received fair play awards from the German Football Association for both acts and the Sport Ethics Award from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2016.
At the 2014 World Cup, Klose scored his 15th and 16th World Cup goals, surpassing Ronaldo's previous record. He became the third player in history to score in four different World Cups and the first player to appear in four consecutive World Cup semi-finals. Germany won the tournament, beating Argentina 1-0 in the final.