Timm Klose
Timm Klose ( 2011)
Timm Klose (born 9 May 1988 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a football player with Swiss and German nationality who plays for VfL Wolfsburg since the 2013/14 season.
Club career
BSC Old Boys and FC Basel
Timm Klose, the son of a German and a Swiss mother, began in July 1993 when BSC Old Boys Basel playing football on after his family moved to Basel, his mother's hometown, was moved. Through its three achievements he fell on the FC Basel, who took him for a season in the U18, but the end of season 2003/ 04 again sent him back to the Old Boys, where Klose was first used in the U19. The central defender played at that time ( 2006) with the idea of abandoning the football career before Massimo Ceccaroni gave him the opportunity to compete for the first team of Old Boys. Again woke Timm Klose the attention of talent scouts and joined us in 2007 for two years to U21 FC Basel. But neither Christian Gross still Thorsten Fink trust the 193cm giant - the leap to a regular in the first team to.
FC Thun
Anders saw this longtime FCB defender and national team Murat Yakin, who took over as coach of FC Thun 2009. This took the contacts to his former home club and took Klose, along with Marco Aratore and Nicolas shingle wood into the Bernese Oberland. The defender signed for the Thunern, which at that time were playing in the second highest Swiss league, a two-year contract until 2011. In the 2009/10 season Timm Klose played 29 games and scored two goals. FC Thun was this season, not least thanks to its visibility and strong tackling Challenge League champions and rose to the Axpo Super League. Shortly thereafter communicated FC Thun, that the contract with Timm Klose was prematurely extended by two years until 30 June 2013.
The center-back was also in the season 2010/11, one of the pillars of the strong background Thun team that presented the second strongest defense of the highest Swiss league this season. Thun cashed in that first season after promotion less goals than the Swiss champions Basel, thanks also to the direct meeting of 13 November 2010 with his teammates won a clear 3-1 win at the Klose. Never before had a Thun team can defeat the Basel at St. Jakob- Park. Klose's strengths are its his speed and his tactical finesse. Thanks to its size, it may also decide the most head duels for himself and is generally very strong in the tackle, which is why experts Klose hold for a strongly underrated players with great potential.
1 FC Nuremberg
Timm Klose aroused the interest of many clubs at home and abroad, and finally used a Austiegsklausel in the current contract until 2013 with the Thunern to sign a three- year contract with the Bundesliga club 1.FC Nürnberg on May 26, 2011. Among the Franks Klose anvancierte quickly to service providers and graduated in the seasons 2011/12 and 2012/13 a total of 45 league games in which he scored two goals.
VfL Wolfsburg
In July 2013 Klose moved to league rivals VfL Wolfsburg and signed a four-year contract.
National team career
On 11 August 2010 under coach Pierluigi Tami Klose during a friendly match against the Greek Under-21 national team made its debut in the Swiss U21 national team. As a result, he played yet another friendly match and was used in three U21 European Championship qualifiers. The final preparation games for the European Championship finals from 7 - 26th June 2011 in Denmark denied the Swiss U21 national team in Saudi Arabia and Qatar - during a training camp from 21 to 30 March, 2011 Klose and his team-mates could decide both test games for themselves..
In the European Championship finals in Denmark Klose formed from the second game with Jonathan Rossini 's central defense, flanked by the outer defenders Philippe Koch and Gaetano Berardi, and was one of the guarantors that the Switzerland first moved without conceding a goal in the final of the U-21 European Championship and thus also for the Olympic football tournament in 2012 qualified in London. In the final, they lost 0-2 to the Spanish selection, Klose was again in power and carrier had in the 78th minute with a header a big chance for a 1-1 draw. On 10 August 2011, he debuted in the Swiss national team, as the defender came off the bench in the match against Liechtenstein for Philippe Senderos.
Achievements
As a club player
With FC Thun
- Challenge League champion: 2010 (ascent in the Axpo Super League 2010 /11)
As a national player
With the U -21 in Switzerland
- Finalist in the U-21 European Football Championships 2011
World Record
In May 2013 Timm Klose Lionel Messi struck in the dribble course with a world record time of 4976 seconds ( Messi: 5125 seconds ).