Jürgen Klopp

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Jürgen Klopp
Liverpool vs. Chelsea, UEFA Super Cup 2019-08-14 04.jpg
Jürgen Klopp (2019)
Personnel
Surname Jürgen Norbert Klopp
birthday 16th June 1967 (age 53)
place of birth Stuttgart ,  Germany
size 191 cm
position Defense , storm
Juniors
Years station
1972-1983 SV Glatten
1983-1986 TuS Ergenzingen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986-1987 TuS Ergenzingen
1987 1. FC Pforzheim 4 0(0)
1987-1988 Eintracht Frankfurt amateurs  
1988-1989 Viktoria Sindlingen
1989-1990 Rot-Weiss Frankfurt
1990-2001 1. FSV Mainz 05 325 (52)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1987-1988 Eintracht Frankfurt (D-Youth)
2001-2008 1. FSV Mainz 05
2008-2015 Borussia Dortmund
2015– Liverpool FC
1 Only league games are given.

Jürgen Norbert Klopp (born June 16, 1967 in Stuttgart ), nicknamed "Kloppo" , is a former German soccer player and today's coach .

After several short positions in amateur football, Klopp worked for 1. FSV Mainz 05 from 1990 to 2008 , initially as a player and from 2001 as a coach. He took this to the Bundesliga for the first time in 2004. In 2008 he moved to Borussia Dortmund . With BVB he became German champion in 2011 and 2012 and won the double in 2012 . He also reached two other cup finals and the 2013 UEFA Champions League final .

Klopp has been the head coach of Liverpool FC since October 2015 . With the club, he achieved his greatest successes as a coach with the Champions League victory in 2019 and winning the English championship in 2020 . After Ottmar Hitzfeld and Jupp Heynckes , he is the third German coach to win a men's Champions League title with the team he oversees.

School and study

On Eduard-Spranger-commercial high school in Freudenstadt Juergen Klopp acquired in 1986 the general university . In 1995 he graduated from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with a degree in sports science . He wrote his thesis on walking . After the promotion to the Bundesliga with Mainz 05 in the summer of 2004, Klopp, who at that time only had an A license as a coach, got his license as a football teacher at the Cologne Sports University .

Career as a player

Beginnings with amateur teams

Klopp was born in Stuttgart and grew up with two older sisters with his parents Elisabeth and Norbert in the community of Glatten near Freudenstadt in the Black Forest . He first played football in Ergenzingen , 30 kilometers away , then at 1. FC Pforzheim , Eintracht Frankfurt (reserve team), Viktoria Sindlingen and Rot-Weiss Frankfurt . With the then top division club Rot-Weiss, who was coached by Dragoslav Stepanović , he became Hessen champion in 1990 and failed in the subsequent promotion round to the second division at Mainz 05.

1. FSV Mainz 05

During this promotion game, the Mainz club management became aware of Klopp and signed him in the summer of 1990 for the upcoming second division season; thereby Klopp became a professional footballer . He played 325 second division games for 1. FSV Mainz 05 until 2001, making him the club's record holder for games in the 2. Bundesliga. With a total of 340 competitive games, Klopp was also in the club's internal statistics until the beginning of November 2006, together with Michael Müller , until they were overtaken by goalkeeper Dimo Wache and in December 2014 by Nikolče Noveski . Klopp scored 52 second division goals for Mainz, only surpassed by Sven Demandt . Besides Benjamin Auer, he is the only player who scored four goals for Mainz 05 in a second division game, for example in a 5-0 away win against FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt in 1991/92 .

In his eleven years at Mainz 05 Klopp played seven times against relegation; the club managed to stay up. As a player, he was used in many ways. At first he played as a striker, later in midfield and finally in defense.

Career as a coach

Beginnings

In the 1987/88 season, Klopp trained the club's D-youth team parallel to his active time with the Eintracht Frankfurt amateurs .

1. FSV Mainz 05

Jürgen Klopp near Mainz 05 (2004)
Jürgen Klopp (right) next to Stephan Kuhnert (left) and Željko Buvač (2006)

From February 28, 2001, Klopp initially trained as an interim solution until the end of the season for the professional team of 1. FSV Mainz 05 in the 2. Bundesliga . The club was relegated to the relegation ranks under coach Eckhard Krautzun , who had been released the day before . Klopp himself had been active three days earlier in the away game against SpVgg Greuther Fürth (1: 3 defeat). This game was his last game as an active professional footballer.

The Mainz club management under the president Harald Strutz and the manager Christian Heidel promoted the defender Klopp to coach. Already at the time of the Mainz trainer Wolfgang Frank , under whom he had played for years, he had been seen as his "extended arm" on the field. Klopp was the sixth coach of the 05er in twelve months. However, the defender did not have the necessary coaching license for professional football, but a completed sports degree. Under his leadership, the team won six of the first seven games and again achieved the class retention.

Because of these successes, Klopp was appointed head coach at the end of the season. He missed promotion with the club in the 2001/02 and 2002/03 seasons as fourth in the table. In 2001/02 the Mainz team was missing one point, in 2002/03 the goal difference was one goal too low. In the third attempt in the 2003/04 season, he was promoted to the Bundesliga . In the two seasons 2004/05 and 2005/06 Klopp's team was placed at the end of the season in eleventh place in the table.

Before the start of the 2005/06 season, Klopp achieved the club's greatest success to date with 1. FSV Mainz 05, when his team entered the UEFA Cup qualification through the UEFA Fair Play classification and with a lucky draw . There the Mainzer against arrived FK FC Mika of Armenia with 4: 0 and 0: 0 against and ÍB Keflavík of Iceland with 2: 0 and 2: 0 in the first round of the UEFA Cup competition in 2005/06 , in which the team were eliminated 0-0 and 2-0 against eventual UEFA Cup winners FC Sevilla . In the 2006/07 Bundesliga season 1. FSV Mainz 05 rose as table-16. back to the 2nd Bundesliga.

In April 2008, Klopp announced that if 1. FSV Mainz 05 were not promoted to the Bundesliga, it would not extend his expiring contract. On the last day of the 2007/08 season , the club narrowly missed promotion to the Bundesliga, so that Klopp ended his work as a coach in Mainz on June 30, 2008.

Borussia Dortmund

Jürgen Klopp as BVB coach at the beginning of the 2010/11 season

From July 1, 2008, Klopp coached Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund, who at that time and in the previous seasons was no longer placed in the top of the table, as the successor to Thomas Doll . In the following years he succeeded in forming BVB again into a top club in German football. In 2008/09 he reached sixth place at the end of the season with his team, which had been considered a relegation candidate in the previous season, with which the club just missed participation in a European competition. In the 2009/10 season, the team qualified with fifth place for the 2010/11 Europa League . In the two Bundesliga seasons 2010/11 and 2011/12 Borussia Dortmund won the German championship under Klopp as coach. In 2012, Dortmund was the first club in the Bundesliga to exceed the 80-point mark with 81 points. A week later, his team also won the DFB Cup with a 5-2 win against FC Bayern Munich at the Olympiastadion Berlin , making it the first double in Dortmund's club history. In the following seasons, BVB took second place behind Bayern Munich and reached the final of the 2012/13 Champions League . In the 2013/14 season Klopp and BVB lost the DFB Cup final against Bayern Munich with 0: 2 a.d. in Berlin.

In January 2012, Klopp and Borussia Dortmund extended their contract period, which originally ran until 2014, to summer 2016, and in October 2013 again to 2018. After a weak first half of the season, Klopp agreed with the club in April 2015 to end their cooperation early on June 30, 2015 At the end of the 2014/15 season, BVB qualified for international football. Klopp's last game as BVB coach was the final of the DFB Cup on May 30, 2015, which his team lost 3-1 to VfL Wolfsburg .

Liverpool FC

Klopp after Liverpool's game against Chelsea , 2019, UEFA Super Cup

On October 8, 2015, Klopp took over the tenth Premier League team of Liverpool FC from previously dismissed Brendan Rodgers . He received a three-year contract, initially running until June 30, 2018, and brought his assistant coach Željko Buvač and his video analyst Peter Krawietz, with whom he had already worked in Mainz and Dortmund, to Anfield Road . At that time, Klopp was only the second German head coach or team manager in the Premier League after Felix Magath , who coached Fulham FC from February to September 2014 . At the end of the season he reached eighth place with his team in the final table. On February 28, 2016, Klopp and his team were in the League Cup final at Wembley against Manchester City , which was lost on penalties. The Europa League final on May 18, 2016 in Basel also ended in a defeat with 1: 3 against Sevilla FC .

In July 2016 Klopp's contract was extended to June 30, 2022. He was the first German to be voted Premier League coach of the month on October 14, 2016.

The season 2016/17 ended Klopp with his team than in fourth. Liverpool FC successfully played in the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League playoffs and finally reached the final , but lost 3-1 to Real Madrid . It was the third time he lost a European Cup final.

In the 2018/19 season Klopp was only second behind Manchester City with Liverpool despite 97 points . Never before had a team in the Premier League scored more points as runner-up. In the entire season, the team lost only one game: on matchday 21 against Manchester City. Klopp and his team reached the final of the Champions League again , which Liverpool won 2-0 against Tottenham Hotspur on June 1, 2019 at the Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid . After Jupp Heynckes and Ottmar Hitzfeld, Klopp is the third German coach to win a Champions League title with the team he oversees. On August 14, 2019, Liverpool FC defeated Chelsea FC in the UEFA Super Cup on penalties , which Klopp won as the first German coach. On December 21, he won the FIFA Club World Cup with Liverpool FC for the first time in the club's history with a 1-0 win after extra time against Flamengo Rio de Janeiro .

In December 2019, the term of his contract was extended to 2024.

In the 2019/20 season , Liverpool FC escaped the competition in the Premier League. It was only on the 28th matchday that Klopp's team, which had previously only left points after a draw on the 9th matchday at Manchester United , suffered the first defeat of the season at the relegation candidate FC Watford with a 3-0 defeat, which meant the first defeat after 44 games. With 18 wins in a row, Liverpool shared the record with Manchester City (2017). In March the season was interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic . After playing 29 games, Liverpool were at the top of the table with 82 points, while the runner-up Manchester City was one game less than 25 points behind the Reds. After the game was resumed in mid-June with ghost games, Liverpool FC became English champions for the 19th time on matchday 31 - 7 matchdays before the end of the season - which was the earliest championship in Premier League history after matchdays. Previously, Manchester United 2001 and Manchester City 2018 were champions five game days before the end of the season. It was the first championship since 1990 and the first since the Premier League was introduced for Liverpool FC. The club finally closed the season with 99 points (32 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats), which meant that Manchester City's point record from the 2017/18 season was missed by one point. After the season, Klopp was named England's Football Coach of the Year and Premier League Manager of the Season .

Expert in football broadcasts

Between 2005 and 2008, Klopp worked alongside Johannes B. Kerner , Urs Meier and Franz Beckenbauer as an expert on soccer broadcasts on ZDF . Among other things, he analyzed games for ZDF at the 2006 World Cup and the 2008 European Championship .

He worked a lot with an electronic "tactics table". He used it to analyze game scenes, use virtual markings to point out tactical errors in the structure and illustrate how this resulted in attacks or goals conceded early on. The media processing of the game was new on German television. Together with Kerner and Meier, on October 20, 2006, he was awarded the German Television Prize in the “Best Sports Program ” category for this and for the expert, entertaining football explanation.

During the 2010 World Cup , he worked alongside Günther Jauch as an expert on RTL's football broadcasts and again won the television award in the category mentioned.

successes

Trainer

1. FSV Mainz 05

Borussia Dortmund

Liverpool FC

Awards

Life alongside the coaching career

His son Marc, born in 1988, comes from his relationship with his first wife. He played football for SV Darmstadt 98 and Borussia Dortmund's second team in the regional league and works for the Hamburg sports consultancy. His second wife Ulla, a social worker and children's book author, whom he married in 2005, brought another son into the marriage.

Klopp is a Protestant Christian who often professes his faith in public. In various interviews, in the film And in front of God helps and in an evangelical book project he described his trust in Jesus Christ . He was also involved as a Reformation ambassador on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 .

Klopp is an ambassador for the Respekt! No place for racism . In September 2019 he joined the Common Goal initiative , whose members donate 1% of their income to social projects.

Klopp took part in the ZDF quiz show Losing Millions (1995) by Mike Krüger .

In the music video Come get the pill out by the children's song writer Volker Rosin , he took on the role of a father screwing up with children.

In the documentary Trainer! (2013) by director Aljoscha Pause , Jürgen Klopp and other coaches had a say. In the film And in front, God helps. (2016) by David Kadel Klopp is an actor alongside other professional footballers.

literature

  • Raphael Honigstein : I like it when it cracks: Jürgen Klopp. The biography. , Verlag Ullstein extra, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3864930553 .
  • Cathrin Gilbert: Not normal anymore. In: The time . No. 47, November 14, 2019, p. 32.

Documentaries

  • NDR Sportclub Story: Jürgen Klopp: The Normal One in Liverpool (2017), 30 min.
  • ZDF SPORTreportage: Jürgen Klopp - The Documentation. From the Black Forest to Europe's football throne (2019), 44 min.
  • TVNOW : King Klopp - master maker , motivator, human being (2020), 22 min.

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Klopp  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Jürgen Klopp  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official website of Jürgen Klopp juergenklopp.de
    Jürgen “Kloppo” Klopp: Signature in the trademark register steigerlegal.ch, accessed on January 20, 2016.
  2. ↑ How "Kloppo" got his Abitur. Schwarzwälder Bote from December 1, 2016, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Klopp shows us his women , bild.de from May 8, 2012.
  4. ↑ Competitive game statistics in the archive of 1. FSV Mainz 05.
  5. ↑ Match data on fussballdaten.de
  6. ↑ Placements Mainz 05 on www.transfermarkt.de
  7. ↑ Jürgen Klopp about his studies at the Goethe University on YouTube , accessed on May 24, 2015.
  8. ↑ Match report on www.transfermarkt.de
  9. ↑ Uwe Martin: Soccer: Jürgen Klopp: 325 times on the field - now next to it . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed December 22, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Borussia Dortmund extends until 2016 with Michael Zorc and Jürgen Klopp. Borussia Dortmund , accessed on January 30, 2012 .
  11. ↑ BVB extends bvb.de with Jürgen Klopp until 2018 , accessed on October 30, 2013.
  12. ↑ Borussia Dortmund and Jürgen Klopp end their collaboration with effect from June 30, 2015 ad hoc announcement by Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA, accessed on April 15, 2015.
  13. ↑ Liverpool FC confirms Jürgen Klopp appointment , notification from the club, October 8, 2015.
  14. ↑ Klopp dines out with staff after signing three-year deal , the club release, October 9, 2015.
  15. ↑ Klopp becomes a coach at Liverpool FC , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 8, 2015.
  16. ↑ https://de.sports.yahoo.com/fussball/premier-league
  17. ↑ http://www.gmx.net/magazine/sport/fussball/europa-league/liveticker/el/
  18. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/sport/fussball/europa-league/juergen-klopp-verliert-auch-sein-fuenftes-finale-aid-1.5986153
  19. ↑ https://www.tz.de/sport/fussball/juergen-klopp-ich-verlasse-liverpool-wenn-9473120.html
  20. ^ Klopp voted Barclays Manager of the Month , premierleague.com, October 24, 2016.
  21. ↑ Injustice! Scandal in Rome! , Die Welt , May 3, 2018
  22. ^ Victory over Liverpool , Der Spiegel , May 26, 2018
  23. ^ Tottenham Hotspur - Liverpool FC | Highlights - Champions League Final 2018/19 , Sky Sports, June 1, 2019.
  24. ↑ Klopp makes peace with the Club World Cup after a "wonderful night". Retrieved December 22, 2019 .
  25. ^ Jürgen Klopp agrees new Liverpool FC contract to 2024. In: liverpoolfc.com. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  26. ↑ ManUnited prevents Liverpool's win record - Klopp foams , kicker.de, October 20, 2019, accessed on May 7, 2020.
  27. ↑ After 44 games: Watford ends Liverpool's series of fables , kicker.de, May 7, 2020, accessed on May 7, 2020.
  28. ↑ Liverpool FC are champions - after 30 years and with a double record , kicker.de, June 25, 2020, accessed on June 25, 2020.
  29. ↑ The next great honor for Klopp - and "the reconciliation" with Ferguson , kicker.de, July 27, 2020, accessed on August 16, 2020.
  30. ↑ Jürgen Klopp named Premier League Manager of the Season , liverpoolfc.com, August 15, 2020, accessed on August 16, 2020.
  31. ↑ 2006 winner of the German Television Prize
  32. ↑ admin: IFFHS AWARDS 2019 - THE WORLD'S BEST CLUB COACH: JÜRGEN KLOPP (GERMANY / FC LIVERPOOL). In: IFFHS. November 26, 2019. Retrieved November 28, 2019 (American English).
  33. ↑ a b Website of the SWR : The 100 largest Rhineland-Palatinate; Klopp, Jürgen (10th) , accessed on August 28, 2011.
  34. ↑ Marc Klopp in the data center of the DFB, accessed on January 7, 2019
  35. ↑ http://www.reviersport.de/193922---bvb-ii-klopp-hoert.html
  36. ↑ How he helps BVB in the title fight: Klopp-Sohn is now working for Favre , bild.de, January 7, 2019
  37. ↑ Klopp: God finds me in order , bild.de of January 24, 2012.
  38. ↑ BVB Trainer Klopp Interview , fr-online.de from September 10, 2012.
  39. ↑ Front runner with God's blessing , rp-online.de of January 14, 2011.
  40. ↑ Jürgen Klopp. A foreword ( Memento from August 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Fußball-Gott.com, accessed on May 26, 2013.
  41. ^ Reformation ambassador Jürgen Klopp. In: chrismon.evangelisch.de. Retrieved October 24, 2016 .
  42. ↑ Ten amazing facts about BVB coach Klopp
  43. ↑ Jürgen Klopp shot with Volker Rosin
  44. ^ Website of the film.
  45. ↑ programm.ARD.de .
  46. ↑ zdf.de SPORTreportage
  47. ^ ZDF press portal .
  48. ↑ TVNOW
personal data
SURNAME Klopp, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klopp, Jürgen Norbert (full name); Kloppo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart , Germany