Jürgen Klinsmann

Jürgen Klinsmann was born on July 30, 1964, in Göppingen, Germany. Trained at Stuttgarter Kickers, he exploded at VfB Stuttgart, where he was Bundesliga top scorer in 1988 and named German Footballer of the Year in the same season. In 1989 he transferred to Inter Milan, forming with Lothar Matthäus and Andreas Brehme the German trio that won the UEFA Cup in 1991. He also played for Monaco before shining at Tottenham in 1994-95, a season in which he was named English Footballer of the Year by the FWA and immortalized the dive celebration, ironizing the criticism he received for simulations. At Bayern Munich, he won the UEFA Cup in 1996 and the German Championship in 1997. For the German national team, he played 108 matches and scored 47 goals, winning the World Cup in 1990 in Italy, and Euro 1996 as captain. He scored eleven goals combined across the 1990, 1994 and 1998 World Cups. After retiring from playing, he became a coach: he managed Germany between 2004 and 2006, finishing third at the 2006 World Cup at home, and later managed Bayern Munich, the United States national team — Gold Cup champions in 2013 — and the South Korea national team.