Who is Klara Szalantzy?
Klara Szalantzy is a German model, well-known as the wife of Oliver Bierhoff. She was born on March 31, 1970, in Munich, a city in Germany. She is a former model and basketball player from Germany and has been married to the former football striker since 2001.
Klara garnered international attention before her marriage to Bierhoff when her then-boyfriend, Croatian basketball star Drazen Petrovic, who played for the Nets, died in a vehicle accident 1993.
Klara Szalantzy is a former model and basketball player
Klara Szalantzy’s professions were modeling and playing basketball. She appeared in several publications and events while modeling in the US and Germany. She participated in basketball for the German national team and various teams, including TSV 1860 München. Not many details are known about Klara Szalantzy’s career besides what has already been stated above.
She has a daughter with her husband
Oliver Bierhoff and Klara Szalantzy are parents to a girl who was born on January 27, 2007, their only child but no media or source has captured their daughter’s name, making that information unavailable. However, in 2010, at eight months pregnant with their second child, she too experienced a miscarriage. She also lost her only sibling, Ladislav, who passed away in that same year from undetermined circumstances. These events have severely touched her and her family.
Klara Szalantzy dated Drazen Petrovic
As mentioned earlier, Klara Szalantzy dated Croatian basketball star Drazen Petrovic, a Nets player who passed away in a vehicle accident in 1993 while they were still dating. Drazen Petrovi was a professional basketball player who represented both Yugoslavia and Croatia. He died on June 7, 1993, and his name is pronounced [dren ptroit] in Croatian. He was a shooting guard who found success in the 1980s playing basketball professionally in Europe before signing with the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1989.
On the afternoon of June 7, 1993, Klara Szalantzy and her friend Hilal Edebal traveled to the Frankfurt Airport to pick up Drazen. She had only been dating Drazen for a few short months. Drazen was scheduled to travel with Klara to Munich when an accident happened on a wet, sloppy road on the A9 highway close to Denkendorf in Germany. Despite suffering severe injuries in the collision, the model and the other female passenger lived as she apparently traveled at 160 mph. Petrovic slept in the passenger seat, fell out of the car, and then died on the spot.
Drazen Petrovi was the second child of Jovan “Jole” Petrovi, a police officer, and Biserka (née Mikulandra), a librarian, and was born in Ibenik, Yugoslavia (modern-day Croatia). In Zagora, a town close to Trebinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina, his father was born into a Serb family. His mother was a devout Roman Catholic from a traditional, conservative Croat family and was born in Bilice, close to Ibenik. Aleksandar, the pair’s eldest child, was the first to take up basketball and later developed into one of the best point guards in the former Yugoslavia. The Serbian basketball star Dejan Bodiroga’s second cousins are the Petrovi brothers.
Klara Szalantzy is now married to Oliver Bierhoff
Klara Szalantzy is married to Oliver Bierhoff, a former forward who now officiates German football, and was born on May 1, 1968. He formerly worked for the German Football Association as the national team director. Bierhoff is a very tall, potent goal scorer; he was mostly known for his excellent skills and capability to aid as a target man and direct pinpoint headers toward the goal. Bierhoff’s goal for Germany in the Euro 96 championship match was the first golden goal in the history of major international football, catapulting him into the public eye on a worldwide scale.
After completing a correspondence program, Bierhoff earned a business economics degree from the University of Hagen in 2002. From 2004 to December 2017, Bierhoff served as the Germany national football team’s manager, a newly established role due to Jürgen Klinsmann’s acceptance of the head coaching position.
In contrast to coaching obligations, the tasks primarily focus on the team’s public relations efforts. Bierhoff was appointed the technical director of the German national team on January 1 as a result of institutional changes made to the German Football Association. After a second early departure from the World Cup in 2022, the DFB terminated Bierhoff’s contract, which was set to last until 2024.