The Fans of Liverpool FC are hungry for a title. Coach Jürgen Klopp wants to go again as the final winner from the turf. But there are more important things, like Klopp told prior to the game against Barcelona.
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Klopp for the first time against FC Barcelona
DW: the Europa League final of 2016 Champions League final 2017 – now still at FC Barcelona beat and you would be the third Time in four years in a major European final.
Jürgen Klopp: Really? Impressive, Yes. But we’ll see. Barcelona is a damn good football team. But that’s how it is in sports, if you’re here, do you want to win. We are certainly not a Dreamless sleep. It is certainly not so that someone thinks: “Oh, of Liverpool, let us sell.” I’ve never played in a competitive game against Barcelona, but I have watched many other teams, like against Barcelona, lost. I’ve always thought it would be interesting to play one against the Team and try it out. And now we try it!
What will decide the game?
Really brave! The defense work and the courage to play his own football. The big challenge in this game is to have a large potential for Frustration. When Barcelona is in possession of the ball, are you separate from the Ball – you have to accept that. But there will be moments when we have the Ball, and then we have to radiate immediately to danger.
What is the club more important – to win the Champions League or the championship in the Premier League?
A popular question currently. Friday night is about to win a Premier League game [editors ‘ note: Liverpool the game against Huddersfield is 5:0], won on Wednesday then the game in the Champions League. Saturday after that it is back to the Premier League, on Tuesday to, in turn, the king class. We need to retrieve in each game our best services. But if you ask people, the answer is obvious: the title in the League.
Last year they were very close to win the title in the Premier class.
I was already six times with a Team in a final, and I six times lost. But that doesn’t make me a broken Person or something. For me, that means life, to try it again and again. If only winners can survive, we can wrap up all of them. But you have to give it your all. And we have done that each Time. So I can live with that. It’s not just the best days of my life, you can make it in my Top Five. But still, they are very important experiences for me, and I want to use it for the future. If God needs me to show that someone is losing six finals in a row and he is trying it is actually also yet a seventh Time, then I am the perfect Person for it. No idea who decided it, but, obviously, this is a funny guy.
“Wall painting” from the street artist ACSR in Liverpool
You stand out in a way other trainer colleagues.
I happen to have gave way some: I can talk like a waterfall and I don’t care about what other people think about me. I am very interested in other people, but I don’t care what you think about me. This leads in many situations, I stay calm, if 90 percent of the people are nervous. That’s maybe the difference. The like up-to-date important features. But 200 years ago I would have slept perhaps on the road or 500 years ago, before the king danced.
Are you really “The Normal One”, so the normal type, as you have presented here in Liverpool?
I see myself as a normal Person. I have a lot more questions than answers. You mean: How can I be special or extraordinary? I know a little more about football than most of the others. That’s true. That makes me in this thing, maybe especially. And that is my happiness, that my particular skills are currently in demand. I know some of the hockey coach. The work is hard, five times more than I, but earn only four percent of what I get. I would not be happy, I would be crazy. But I’m not smart enough to take exactly too important.
Which of your properties is particularly important in your work?
My interest for other people. This has always been so. This has not changed. What has changed, are the problems of the players, Social Media and such things. There is a lot of pressure. The more money there is, the greater the pressure is. The boys are so young and every day be judged and condemned. It is as if you are sitting continuously in a glass house. Everyone is watching you, sees the smallest error. The world decides out there: If you’re good, you’re the Hero. If not, you’re the biggest loser. There is only Black and White. There are no other colors.
Intimate relationship: Jürgen Klopp, with striker Mohamed Salah
I’m early to become a father, so I learned early to take care of younger people. And I’m still doing that today. The players are now younger than my sons, and I love it still. The boys have all the world-class potential. Not all world-class professionals, but you have what it takes. And my job is to make you actually to the world-class. 80 percent of this you already have, but the last 20 percent are critical. And that’s my Job.
If one of your players goes abroad, what is your advice?
Be open and learn the language as fast as you can! What is here in England, great: You speak three words in English, and the Englishman makes it a set. You want to understand you, really. The most Important thing is: Be open and learn, learn, learn! Listening to young people probably do not like. But, Learning is actually learn from life.
You are one of three candidates for the award for the German football Ambassador. What do you think of this idea?
I think it’s important that people should use their Position in the football, in order to act as a kind of Ambassador, but it must be not a title, that should happen without you think about it. The Best part to live in England, is for me to see that English and German are similar and simultaneously so different. This is incredible. I wanted to live abroad. Now I’m in England and it is a very, very interesting experience.
With the Brexit, and all the current events, it doesn’t look so, but the European Union has actually led to, that we are come to us all closer. I don’t like this border idea. What I is the most love that we can travel wherever we want. In the EU everything is not perfect, but I love the idea behind it.
Jürgen Klopp (51), nickname “Kloppo”, is a German football coach and former player. After several short stations in the Amateur football Klopp from 1990 to 2008 for the 1. FSV Mainz 05, initially as a player and from 2001 as a coach. This led, in 2004, for the first time in the Bundesliga. In 2008 he moved to Borussia Dortmund. With BVB, he was in the years 2011 and 2012, German champion and won the 2012 League and Cup Double in. He also reached two more Cup finals, and in 2013 the final of the Champions League. Since October 2015 Klopp’s team Manager at Liverpool. With this club he was a 2016 Finalist in the Europa League, and stand in 2018 in the final of the Premier class. Liverpool won the 2005 Champions League and was last updated in 1990, the English master. Jürgen Klopp has been nominated for the Award “German football Ambassador 2019”, the 15.5. at the Federal foreign office in Berlin by the German foreign Minister, Heiko Maas will be awarded.
The Interview was conducted by Jana Schäfer.
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and CharismaPeople Holy
Quickly, Jürgen Klopp has won the hearts of the Liverpool Fans conquered: “We have to turn doubters into believers,” he demanded on his first day at LFC. The “Believer”scarf today is one of the most popular Fan articles at Anfield. Likewise, the “In Klopp we trust”Shirt. Klopp is a cult in the most iconic club in England, he started but far from the great football temple.
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and CharismaGroup picture with Seeler
Jürgen Klopp is born in Stuttgart in 1967 and grew up in the black forest. As A youth player of the TuS 2 Ergenzingen (above,.v.l.) he is allowed to stand at a tournament in 1985, in Hamburg, even in addition to HSV legend Uwe Seeler. Because nobody thinks that today people will jump at the chance for a Selfie next to Klopp’s place.
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and CharismaMore Football-Craftsman
A wizard with the ball, Jürgen Klopp, is not in his active career. The striker, the retraining at second division FSV Mainz 05 soon for the defender, is more of a rustic style. The Fans like his honest way to play football. The only player of Mainz, he has his own Fan club, the “Kloppos”.
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and CharismaDeparture from Mainz after 18 years
Seamlessly Klopp 2001 changes from the field to the dugout. After Mainz, has failed twice just because the Team under Klopp in 2004, in the third start-up of the historic first ascent of the FSV in the Bundesliga. After the descent of 2007 and narrowly missing out on promotion in the following year, Klopp from Mainz goodbye: after 18 years as a player and coach.
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and CharismaAward-winning TV expert
Klopp is a bundle of energy and has almost always a loose saying on the lips. Associated with his football skills makes him the ideal TV experts. With the Ex-referee Urs Meier (l.) and Moderator Johannes B. Kerner (R) Klopp from 2005 to 2008 at the ZDF, a well-established Team. Later, he hires on RTL as an expert. Twice he was awarded the German television.
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and CharismaTrendsetter
Jürgen Klopp comes in with his open and friendly manner with the television viewers and football fans well – and is also the Trendsetter. Even his fashionable sunglasses to be perceived positively by the Public. In 2008, the “Board of Trustees Good appoint” See Klopp at the “spectacle wearer of the year”.
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and CharismaStars make
In mid-2008 Klopp, head coach of Borussia Dortmund. The BVB is after the Almost-Bankrupt three years earlier, still in the midst of reorganising the finances, sporty it is not around. Klopp promises to help the club “back on track”. His motto is: No Stars to buy, but you make. So he puts the two 19-year-old Mats Hummels and Neven Subotic into the centre of defence.
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and CharismaThree titles in two years
Klopp’s recipe goes the way of the BVB leads to the top. In 2011, the Dortmund pick up the championship trophy and celebrate afterwards so strong that the coach of the day after the Party with the Fans on the Borsig square has to hide his eyes behind a pair of sunglasses. In 2012, the BVB manages to do the Double.
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and CharismaThe Occasional Outburst
With all the charm and wit – again and again, Klopp will go to the side line also changes the nags – as here in 2010 in a dispute with the Fourth Official, referee Stefan Trautmann. “I’m not scared about myself, which was fine,” said Klopp, after he saw this photo.
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and CharismaHappily married
Since 2005, Klopp is married in second marriage with his wife Ursula. Both have a son from a previous marriage. “I would not be in the approach of the one who I’m not, if it were my wife,” says Klopp, once the magazine “Gala”: “I would not be such a satisfied man.” His “Ulla”, so Klopp, may his Beard, another of his trademarks.
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and CharismaThe end of the receding hairline
“We have sat with our sons and a friend who is a doctor, and talked about what you would change if you could,” said Klopp. The BVB coach miss his receding hairline, so he can be by hair transplant out. And he talks in 2013 in the open about it: “I think the result is quite cool, is it?”
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and CharismaThe bitter taste of defeat at Wembley
In 2013, Klopp has the Chance to get his first international title and then the Champions League in the final at Wembley stadium in London against the German rivals FC Bayern. BVB loses unhappy with 1:2, the winning goal in Munich through Arjen Robben falls in the penultimate Minute. Klopp is required as a Comforter.
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and CharismaBye, BVB!
In mid-2014, the BVB for the second Time in the series runners-up, then the crisis starts. After 18 game days in Dortmund is on the last place of the table. Klopp seems exhausted. After all, he 2015 leads the Team and Seventh in the Europa League and the DFB Cup final, BVB loses against Wolfsburg 1:3. At this time, Klopp has already announced his departure from Dortmund.
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and Charisma“The Normal One”
Klopp’s “Sabbath year” lasts only five months. In October 2015 he will be presented as the new team Manager of Liverpool FC. Raised on the saying “I’m the Special One” of the Portuguese Star Trainer josé Mourinho, responding Klopp: “I was an average player, and in Mainz, Germany, I started as an average coach. You could say: I’m the Normal One.”
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and CharismaThe darling of the Fans
As in Mainz and Dortmund to fly to him in Liverpool, the hearts of the Fans. Klopp leaves the “Reds” attractive, offensive football play and shaping as once at BVB, new Stars. So Mohamed “Mo” Salah Matures under Klopp is a world-class player. With 32 hits of the Egyptians, breaking the previous scoring record in the Premier League and will be crowned the “player of the season 2017/18”.
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and CharismaThe Cup is over
“Just” the medal for second place. The Champions League final in 2018, against Real Madrid, Klopp’s third final with Liverpool, which he loses, as previously, the two Finals in the year 2016, in the League Cup and in the Europa League. “We had no game of luck,” he says afterwards. “I’m not insane.”
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Jürgen Klopp: With heart and CharismaThe Chance for a rematch
The Final defeat against FC Bayern Klopp followed up today, he says. Never again has been the Champions League final of 2013 looked at, Dortmund 1:2 against the FC Bayern just “too bitter”. Six years later, Klopp to succeed, this time as Liverpool Coach, a little payback. In the second round of the “king’s class” of the “Reds turn off” the FC Bayern.