Career
Josef Klose began his career at Energetyk Sławięcice. From 1966 he was a forward for Odra Opole. He helped them get promoted in 1980 to Ligue 1 where he played 14 games, scoring twice.
From 1981 to 1984, already in his mid-thirties, he played for fourth league side Châlons-sur-Saône Football Club. His family, of Silesian-German ancestry, had been German citizens in the Province of Upper Silesia (until 1945) and thus could resettle in West Germany as Aussiedler, which they did in 1985, settling down in Kusel.