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The World Cup's most iconic and greatest players: Jurgen Klinsmann, winner with West Germany in 1990

There are 34 days left until the World Cup begins and talkSPORT.com is counting down by looking at the 100 most iconic players in the greatest football show on Earth.

The list featuring Pele, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane, looks at the greatest moments from the most iconic footballers – from great goal scorers and majestic defenders to sensational scoundrels and those who just didn’t know the rules.

Before reinventing himself as the debonair sophisticate who would manage a vibrant Germany at the 2006 World Cup, Klinsmann was the lead dying swan in a West German lake full of them at Italia ‘90.