What is Dirk Klingenberg?
[[File:Dirk Klingenberg.jpg|thumb|Dirk Klingenberg]] '''Dirk Klingenberg''' (born 23 July 1969 in [[Duisburg]]) is a former professional [[water polo]] player from [[Germany]]. == Sports career == Klingenberg is counted as the best water polo player in Germany in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/1999/0729/sport/0060/index.html | title=Home – BerlinOnline Stadtportal GMBH & Co. KG }}</ref> He began his career in 1980 in Duisburg and started playing for the [[ASC Duisburg]]. A year later he moved to the [[Duisburger SV 98]]. After 10 years he left his hometown in 1991 and moved to Berlin, where he played for the [[Wasserfreunde Spandau 04]]. He won 17 national titles during his time in Berlin. He also became the top-scorer of the water polo Bundesliga twice. As a member of team Germany he competed in 190 international games. He was able to achieve his goal to participate in the [[1996 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games in 1996]]. He was team speaker of the water polo national team in 1998, and was selected for the World-All-Star-Team in 1999. Because of personal and job-related reasons, Klingenberg began to slowly end his career in Düsseldorf, where he led the Düsseldorfer SC in the first league in 1999/2000. == Achievements == ;Achievements with Wasserfreunde Spandau: * German Champions: 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 * German Cup: 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 * German Super Cup: 1997 ;Achievements with the national team: * European Junior Championship: 3rd place (1985) * Junior World Cup: 3rd place (1989) * European Championship: 7th place (1991), 9th place (1993), 3rd place (1995) * Good-Will-Games: 2nd plac * World Cup: 9th place (1994) * Olympic games: 9th place (1996)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/GER/summer/1996/WAP/ |title=Germany Water Polo at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games &#124; Olympics at Sports-Reference.com |access-date=2018-04-01 |archive-date=2020-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.ar