Miroslav Klose - Fairplay

Fairplay

For his fair conductment during the match between Werder Bremen and Arminia Bielefeld in April 2005 Klose received from the Deutsche Olympische Gesellschaft the Fair-Play-Plakette des deutschen Sports and from the Verband Deutscher Sportjournalisten the Fairplay-Trophäe. The referee whistled for a penalty. Klose then told the referee that the goalkeeper had the ball first when Klose fell. The referee took back his penalty decision and also the yellow card for the goalkeeper Mathias Hain.

End of September 2012, Klose scored a hand goal against SSC Napoli. Klose admitted this to the referee, who then took back his decision for the goal, spared Klose from a yellow card and shook his hand.