The football coach Jürgen Klopp is a People collector and title collector, in that order. This is important. Because his recipe for success would work hardly. At least not so mind-boggling, that a moderately talented second-League kicker has worked in nearly twenty years one of the most sought-after trainers of his time up.
Michael Horeni
a correspondent for sports in Berlin.
F. A. Z.
a week Ago, the 53 years ago in Stuttgart-born Jürgen Norbert Klopp has led the Liverpool FC after 30 years to win the English championship. After he had won the mythical club from Anfield in last season, the Champions League, the most important club title in Europe. The current title win with 23 points ahead of the world-class team of Manchester City, Liverpool this Thursday (21.15 in the case of Sky) plays, is a demonstration of power, which was not considered by experts to be possible.
How can it come to such Successes and what it takes for him to Klopp’s self-described. The basic principle of Klopp, he does not want to know his work as a coach is limited. “In me the strong desire to establish relations. This desire is very strong in me. I would like to deal with the people with whom I work, in a relationship. It may also be that this is limited only to the work, but that’s not me actually enough. I can’t describe exactly what is happening in the relationship, what it is, that it works, But I like it so – and, accordingly, I live it. There may well be other ways, the promise of success are. Only: I don’t know.“
The qualified sports scientist has to be living and working principle, it pays off in the professional customary in the industry, on all of its stations permanently and sustainably, after seven years at the former second division club Mainz first to Dortmund led. There the Trainer is developed with the calculus and a passion for a style-forming-Pressing System, with the BVB, who had stood previously before the bankruptcy, twice the German championship, and in 2012, the Double won. It was the last Time FC Bayern was in Germany, his master. Not only by these successes from the coach Klopp, the perfectly-marketed football brand, “Kloppo was”.
