Familiar scene, heavy scene

Mahir Emreli once told me this. "I'm learning how to be a striker from Miroslav Klose."

Mahir has been playing for Nuremberg under Klose's leadership since last summer. He sometimes makes us happy and sometimes disappoints us. He can't score in many games, but when he does, he scores in such a way that even critics are forced to be silent, even applaud him. 

This is the kind of Mahir we want to see. Scoring consistently, showing character, being one of the best in every game.

But the issue is not Mahir now. It is Klose, who, as a coach, has not yet made his mark, not only on the world, but even on the 2nd Bundesliga in Germany, where he works today. Time will tell whether he will make it or not.

However, being with Klose is a school for any striker, including our Mahir. Mahir does not say in vain that "I am learning how to be a striker from Miroslav Klose."

Klose is a master of attacking football.

He is the top scorer of the German national team with 71 goals. 

He is a great professional.

And the answers to the question of how a young football player can grow, how he can become a professional, are hidden in these sentences spoken by Klose himself, which I present below. It should be a lesson for every stubborn young player in the world and in our country.

Let's read!

"I ended my career because I no longer recognized today's football. Now young players think differently. When I was a child, I only thought about training. And also about how to succeed in football. 

In Lazio and the national team, I would lie in an ice bath after every training session to avoid injuries. But young people refused. When they saw me collecting the balls after training, they would ask: "Why are you doing this? There is technical staff". At that moment, I thought: You are 20 years old and you are not helping a 60-year-old worker. They were more interested in whether their boots matched the color of their socks. That's when I realized that football had changed.

Today, young football players primarily think about expensive cars, contracts, sponsors and new boots. Football is secondary to them. What is important to them is their image. But for me, the most important thing has always been the game itself - in its pure and perfect form".

It's a familiar scene.

It's a heavy scene.

Aydin Baghirov