Jurgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann Klinsmann in 2013 Personal information Date of birth (1964-07-30) 30 July 1964 (age 50) Place of birth Göppingen, West Germany Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Playing position Striker Club information Current team United States (Head coach) 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 Internazionale 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 506 (228) 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 28 (9) 1990–1998 Germany 108 (47) Teams managed 2004–2006 Germany 2008–2009 Bayern Munich 2011– United States Honours Player VfB Stuttgart Runner-up DFB-Pokal 1986 Runner-up UEFA Cup 1989 Internazionale Winner Supercoppa Italiana 1989 Winner UEFA Cup 1991 Bayern Munich Winner UEFA Cup 1996 Winner Bundesliga 1997  Germany Bronze Olympics 1988 Winner FIFA World Cup 1990 Runner-up European Championship 1992 Winner European Championship 1996 Coach  Germany Third FIFA World Cup 2006  United States Winner CONCACAF Gold Cup 2013 * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). Jürgen Klinsmann (German pronunciation: [ˈjʏʁɡŋ ˈkliːnsˌman], born 30 July 1964) is a German football manager and former player who is currently 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 US 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. He led the United States team to the last 16 of the World Cup in Brazil in 2014. Outside of his professional football life he completed an apprenticeship as a baker in 1982, runs a Children Charity foundation in four countries, and is a certified helicopter pilot.