About Miroslav Klose Every four years since the first tournament began in 1930; the FIFA World Cup has displayed some of the greatest talent that soccer fans have ever seen, as the best players from around the world suit up for their national team, and attempt to bring the championship home. A total of 736 players will take the center stage (32 qualifying teams with 23 players each), but only a select few will rise above the rest, captivating fans with their phenomenal goal scoring ability, , and signature moves. One of these players is Germany's striker Miroslav Klose, who burst onto the international stage at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, exciting football fans all over the world with his goal scoring headers and signature front-flip goal celebration.
Klose learned his football at a village club, SG Blaubach-Diedelkopf, in the German seventh division. Klose had also successfully completed an apprenticeship to become a carpenter and had worked in this profession until joining the professional team of FC Kaiserslautern.
Every four years since the first tournament began in 1930; the FIFA World Cup has displayed some of the greatest talent that soccer fans have ever seen, as the best players from around the world suit up for their national team, and attempt to bring the championship home. A total of 736
players will take the center stage (32 qualifying teams with 23 players each), but only a select few will rise above the rest, captivating fans with their phenomenal goal scoring ability, , and signature moves. One of these players is Germany's striker Miroslav Klose, who burst onto the international stage at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, exciting football fans all over the world with his goal scoring headers and signature front-flip goal celebration.
Klose learned his football at a village club, SG Blaubach-Diedelkopf, in the German seventh division. Klose had also successfully completed an apprenticeship to become a carpenter and had worked in this profession until joining the professional team of FC Kaiserslautern.
After a season at FC Homburg, he eventually joined the reserve team of FC Kaiserslautern. A year after joining the club, he made it into the first team. In his first 67 matches, Klose scored 33 goals. The 2002–03 season was a comparatively disappointing one as Klose found the back of the net a mere seven times.
Basic Information Birth Name Miroslav Marian Klose Nick Name Klose Miroslav Klose Father Name Josef Klose (a professional soccer player in Poland, France and Germany, nationality : German) Mother Name Barbara Jez (a member of the Poland women's national handball team) Date of Birth 9 June 1978 Born day Friday Birthday 9 June Sex Male Height 6 ft 0 in Zodiac sign Gemini Place of birth Silesian, Opole, Poland Grew up Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Origin German Country German Ancestry Polish-German Nationality German Citizenship German Race or Ethnicity White, European, German Language Speaks Polish German English Religion Catholic Religious view Christian
Family Information Father Name Josef Klose Mother Name Barbara Jez Residence Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Education (? ? ?)
Professional Information Occupation Soccer player German footballer Playing position Striker Current club FC Bayern Munich, German Jersey number 11 World cup
2002 2006 2010 Winner Golden Boot - at the 2006 World Cup, five goals Total goals in world cup finals 14 (5 goals 2002, 5 goals 2006 and 4 goals 2010) Years active 1987-present
Marital Information Status Married Spouse(s) Sylwia Klose Son(s)
Number one singer Lady GaGa met heiress Paris Hilton for the first time last night- at a Nokia 5800 party in London. The two blonde bombshells went to the same Bel Air school but bizarrely it was in swanky London club Punk that they had their first encounter. And speaking to MTV News Paris- in the UK to promote her new TV show- said she is a big fan of the Just Dance singer. "I dont usually get excited to meet anyone but Lady Ga Ga is her own thing, she knows what shes doing and her music is like no other," said Hilton. "She writes all her own music and has a style that is so innovative and modern and futuristic that no one has even thought of it yet and I love that. Shes a trend setter." The love-in continued when MTV News asked Lady GaGa about her new BFF (Biggest Fan Forever). She told us: "Paris went to my school and shes a lovely girl so thankyou (to her)." After meeting the two LA girls got behind the decks to spin some tunes together. We also asked GaGa if she expected her success and the confident singer explained: "I did expect it because the musics really great but Im very grateful."
When Lady Gaga was a little girl, she would sing along on her mini plastic tape recorder to Michael Jackson and Cyndi Lauper hits and get twirled in the air in daddy’s arms to the sounds of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. The precocious child would dance around the table at fancy Upper West Side restaurants using the breadsticks as a baton. And, she would innocently greet a new babysitter in nothing but her birthday suit.
It’s no wonder that little girl from a good Italian New York family, turned into the exhibitionist, multi-talented singer-songwriter with a flair for theatrics that she is today: Lady Gaga.
“I was always an entertainer. I was a ham as a little girl and I’m a ham today,” says Lady Gaga, 23, who made a name for herself on the Lower East Side club scene with the infectious dance-pop party song “Beautiful Dirty Rich,” and wild, theatrical, and often tongue-in-cheek “shock art” performances where Gaga – who designs and makes many of her stage outfits -- would strip down to her hand-crafted hot pants and bikini top, light cans of hairspray on fire, and strike a pose as a disco ball lowered from the ceiling to the orchestral sounds of A Clockwork Orange.
“I always loved rock and pop and theater. When I discovered Queen and David Bowie is when it really came together for me and I realized I could do all three,” says Gaga, who nicked her name from Queen’s song “Radio Gaga” and who cites rock star girlfriends, Peggy Bundy, and Donatella Versace as her fashion icons. “I look at those artists as icons in art. It’s not just about the music. It’s about the performance, the attitude, the look; it’s everything. And, that is where I live as an artist and that is what I want to accomplish.”
That goal might seem lofty, but consider the artist: Gaga is the girl who at age 4 learned piano by ear. By age 13, she had written her first piano ballad. At 14, she played open mike nights at clubs such as New York’s the Bitter End by night and was teased for her quirky, eccentric style by her Convent of the Sacred Heart School (the Manhattan private school Nicky and Paris Hilton attended) classmates by day. At age 17, she became was one of 20 kids in the world to get early admission to Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Signed by her 20th birthday and writing songs for other artists (such as the Pussycat Dolls, and has been asked to write for a series of Interscope artists) before her debut album was even released, Lady Gaga has earned the right to reach for the sky.
“My goal as an artist is to funnel a pop record to a world in a very interesting way,” says Gaga, who wrote all of her lyrics, all of her melodies, and played most of the synth work on her album, The Fame (Streamline/KonLive/Interscope). “I almost want to trick people into hanging with something that is really cool with a pop song. It’s almost like the spoonful of sugar and I’m the medicine.”
On The Fame, it’s as if Gaga took two parts dance-pop, one part electro-pop, and one part rock with a splash of disco and burlesque and generously poured it into the figurative martini glasses of the world in an effort to get everyone drunk with her Fame. “The Fame is about how anyone can feel famous,” she explains. “Pop culture is art. It doesn’t make you cool to hate pop culture, so I embraced it and you hear it all over The Fame. But, it’s a sharable fame. I want to invite you all to the party. I want people to feel a part of this lifestyle.”
The CD’s opener and first single, “Just Dance,” gets the dance floor rocking with it’s “fun, L.A., celebratory vibe.” As for the equally catchy, “Boys Boys Boys,” Gaga doesn’t mind wearing her influences on her sleeve. “I wanted to write the female version of Motley Crue’s ‘Girls Girls Girls,’ but with my own twist. I wanted to write a pop song that rockers would like.”
“Beautiful Dirty Rich” sums up her time of self-discovery, living in the Lower East Side and dabbling in drugs and the party scene. “That time, and that song, was just me trying to figure things out,” says Gaga. “Once I grabbed the reigns of my artistry, I fell in love with that more than I did with the party life.” On first listen, “Paparazzi” might come off as a love song to cameras, and in all honestly, Gaga jokes “on one level it IS about wooing the paparazzi and wanting fame. But, it’s not to be taken completely seriously. It’s about everyone’s obsession with that idea. But, it’s also about wanting a guy to love you and the struggle of whether you can have success or love or both.”
Gaga shows her passion for love songs on such softer tracks as the Queen-influenced “Brown Eyes” and the sweet kiss-off break-up song “Nothing I can Say (eh eh).” “‘Brown Eyes’ is the most vulnerable song on the album,” she explains. “‘Eh Eh’ is my simple pop song about finding someone new and breaking up with the old boyfriend.”
For the new tour for this album, fans will be treated to a more polished version of what they saw (and loved) at her critically acclaimed Lollapalooza show in August 2007 and Winter Music Conference performance in March 2008. “This new show is the couture version of my handmade downtown performance of the past few years. It’s more fine-tuned, but some of my favorite elements to my past shows – the disco balls, hot pants, sequin, and stilettos – will still be there. Just more fierce and more of a conceptual show with a vision for pop performance art.”
I have never met her before, I can’t wait so I came here,” Paris gushed before quizzing the “Just Dance” star on her musical and style influences in a nauseating backstage chat between the pair.Lady even brought on the LOLs by referring to Paris’ 2006 debut single, “Stars Are Blind,” as “one of the greatest records ever.”
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