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Jürgen Norbert Klopp is a German football manager, executive and former player who is the head coach of the Germany national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best managers in the world.
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“I don’t want to describe myself,”
“They came to my house but two out of three guys wanted me. One of them was not sure. I looked like this [Klopp gestures at his unkempt appearance]. I”
“but it depends on which kind of story the neutral fan wants to hear. If he respects the story of Bayern, and how much they have won since the 1970s, he can support them. But if he wants the new story, the special story, it must be Dortmund. I think, in this moment in the football world, you have to be on our side.”
“Obviously, Liverpool was in the last years not famous for treating or dealing with women's football outstandingly well. They didn't go down to the Championship for no reason....Now they are back and we have to make sure that we use the situation. It is a wonderful team, great coach and I'm really happy for them to get promoted.”
“s impossible for any club to dominate like United once did, but he is wrong. [...] I think if Klopp, who is only 53, stayed at Anfield for the next ten years, Liverpool would win at least five Premier League titles. He could keep building great sides because, as I mentioned, players join clubs to work with managers as good as him.”
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“The best moment to win the ball is immediately after your team just lost it. The opponent is still looking for orientation where to pass the ball. He will have taken his eyes off the game to make his tackle or interception and he will have expended energy. Both make him vulnerable”
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“I really think the decision is the right one. This club deserves to be coached from the 100% right manager”
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“He is a Pep Guardiola favourite”
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Bundesliga: Jürgen Klopp completes first day as Germany national team head coach
German Football Association: Jürgen Klopp: “It’s been a really good start”
The Guardian: Jürgen Klopp vows to change Germany but threatens to quit if family hounded by media
Public attention spiked: 75,725 Wikipedia readers in one day, 13.6× the usual 5,550, with 30 article edits. Coverage that week: “Jürgen Klopp vows to change Germany but threatens to quit if family hounded by media” (The Guardian).
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The Guardian: Jürgen Klopp reaches agreement to take over as Germany head coach
Public attention spiked: 21,709 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.9× the usual 5,550, with 10 article edits. Coverage that week: “Jürgen Klopp reaches agreement to take over as Germany head coach” (The Guardian).
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Public attention spiked: 26,193 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.7× the usual 5,550, with 1 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 44,391 Wikipedia readers in one day, 8× the usual 5,550, with 9 article edits. Editors noted: Undid revision 1362387436 by Tipperary6142 (talk)
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Public attention spiked: 23,102 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.2× the usual 5,550, with 0 article edits.
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Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2026).
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Won award: Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2025).
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Awarded Walther Bensemann award (2025).
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For services to Football and the Community in Liverpool
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Awarded Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2024).
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Won: Football League Cup/EFL Cup with Liverpool (2023–24).
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Won award: Premier League Manager of the Month (January 2024).
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Won award: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2024).
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Won Premier League Manager of the Month (2024).
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“make [the Europa League] our competition”
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Won the English FA Community Shield with Liverpool (2022).
Won the English Football League Cup with Liverpool (2021-2022).
Won the English FA Cup with Liverpool (2021-2022).
Runner-up: UEFA Champions League with Liverpool (2021–22).
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Won: FA Community Shield with Liverpool (2022).
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Won: FA Cup with Liverpool (2021–22).
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Won award: Premier League Manager of the Season (2021–22).
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Won Premier League Manager of the Season (2022).
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Won: Football League Cup/EFL Cup with Liverpool (2021–22).
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Won award: LMA Manager of the Year (2021–22).
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Won award: Freedom of the City of Liverpool (2022).
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Won award: Premier League Manager of the Month (May 2021).
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Won Premier League Manager of the Month (2021).
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Full Fact rated the claim “Jürgen Klopp said the European Super League is about “greed” and that he had demanded a meeting with the Liverpool owner.” This quote is made up, although Jürgen Klopp has expressed opposition to the idea of a Super League..
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On 10 February 2021, Klopp confirmed that his mother, Elisabeth, had died; he was unable to attend her funeral in Germany due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.
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Won the English Premier League with Liverpool (2019-2020).
Won award: The Best FIFA Men's Coach (2020).
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Won: Premier League with Liverpool (2019–20).
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Won award: LMA Manager of the Year (2019–20).
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Won award: Premier League Manager of the Season (2019–20).
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Won Premier League Manager of the Month (2020).
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Awarded Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (2020).
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Awarded FIFA Coach of the Year (2020).
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Won Premier League Manager of the Season (2020).
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Won award: Premier League Manager of the Month (January 2020).
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Won award: BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award (2020).
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The Brewery also produced a special limited edition series of cans featuring Klopp's face and autograph, which sold out quickly online
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Klopp signed a personal endorsement deal with Adidas, agreeing to become a brand ambassador and wearing their footwear in training sessions and future advertisements
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Won the FIFA Club World Cup with Liverpool (2019).
Won award: LMA Hall of Fame (2019).
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Won: UEFA Champions League with Liverpool (2018–19).
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Won: UEFA Super Cup with Liverpool (2019).
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Won: FIFA Club World Cup with Liverpool (2019).
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Won award: German Football Manager of the Year (2019).
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Won award: Onze d'Or Coach of the Year (2019).
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Won award: The Best FIFA Men's Coach (2019).
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Won award: IFFHS World's Best Club Coach (2019).
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Won award: IFFHS Men's World Team (2019).
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Won award: World Soccer Awards World Manager of the Year (2019).
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Won award: Globe Soccer Awards Best Coach of the Year (2019).
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Won award: Premier League Manager of the Month (March 2019).
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Won award: Premier League Manager of the Month (August 2019).
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Won award: Premier League Manager of the Month (September 2019).
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Won award: Premier League Manager of the Month (November 2019).
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Won award: Premier League Manager of the Month (December 2019).
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Awarded FIFA Coach of the Year (2019).
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Awarded Football Manager of the Year (2019).
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Won Premier League Manager of the Month (2019).
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Awarded Onze d'Or (2019).
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Won Golden Hen (2019).
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Awarded IFFHS World's Best Club Coach (2019).
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Awarded World Soccer Award (2019).
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The chief executive of the League Managers Association (LMA) said that Klopp had 'redefined man-management' in the modern era, and highlighted his consistency in European competitions; in Klopp's first three European cam
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Klopp became an ambassador for Erdinger, a German brewery best known for its wheat beers
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Won award: Premier League Manager of the Month (December 2018).
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Runner-up: UEFA Champions League with Liverpool (2017–18).
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Won Premier League Manager of the Month (2018).
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For taking things 'too far' when running on to the pitch to embrace Alisson Becker to celebrate an added time winner in the Merseyside derby
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After a 5–1 aggregate quarter-final win against eventual Premier League champions, Manchester City and a 7–6 aggregate win over Roma in the semi-final
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Before sharing the award with his team-mate, Mané, in 2019
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And 2022, and won the trophy in 2019 to secure his first – and Liverpool's sixth – title in the competition
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Runner-up: Football League Cup/EFL Cup with Liverpool (2015–16).
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Won Premier League Manager of the Month (2016).
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Won award: Premier League Manager of the Month (September 2016).
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Runner-up: UEFA Europa League with Liverpool (2015–16).
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Klopp said "The best football is always about expression of emotion"
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“The best football is always about expression of emotion”
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Guardiola suggested that Klopp could be "the best manager in the world at creating teams who attack"
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Runner-up: DFB-Pokal with Borussia Dortmund (2014–15).
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Joined Liverpool in 2015.
Having joined the club the year before under Brendan Rodgers as under-16s coach, and then been named first-team development coach in the summer of 2015
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Won: DFL-Supercup with Borussia Dortmund (2014).
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Runner-up: DFB-Pokal with Borussia Dortmund (2013–14).
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Runner-up: UEFA Champions League with Borussia Dortmund (2012–13).
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Won: DFL-Supercup with Borussia Dortmund (2013).
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And 2014 and a runner-up finish in the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League before leaving in 2015 as their longest-serving manager
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Won: Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund (2011–12).
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Won: DFB-Pokal with Borussia Dortmund (2011–12).
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Awarded Football Manager of the Year (2012).
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Won award: German Football Manager of the Year (2012).
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Won: Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund (2010–11).
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Awarded Football Manager of the Year (2011).
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Won award: VDV Bundesliga Coach of the Season (2010–11).
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Won award: German Football Manager of the Year (2011).
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Won award: Deutscher Fernsehpreis (2010).
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Awarded Deutscher Fernsehpreis for 2010 FIFA World Cup (2010).
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Joined Dortmund in 2008.
Won award: Deutscher Fernsehpreis (2006).
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Awarded Deutscher Fernsehpreis for 2006 FIFA World Cup (2006).
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“In 1991 someone stuck us in a room together and that was the beginning of a life-long friendship!”
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Klopp was a regular expert commentator on the German television network ZDF, analysing the Germany national team
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Wagner served as best man at Klopp's 2005 wedding.
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Won: 2. Bundesliga third-place promotion with Mainz 05 (2003–04).
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Joined Mainz in 2001.
Under Klopp's managerial tenure, and followed him to Borussia Dortmund in 2008, and then Liverpool in 2015
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Klopp became the club's manager, and secured Bundesliga promotion in 2004
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Studied at Goethe University Frankfurt (1995).
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Klopp said of their relationship: "In 1991 someone stuck us in a room together and that was the beginning of a life-long friendship!"
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Someone stuck us in a room together and that was the beginning of a life-long friendship
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Joined Mainz in 1990.
Played for 1. FSV Mainz 05 (1990–2001) — 325 appearances, 52 goals.
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Played for Rot-Weiss Frankfurt (1989–1990).
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While attending the Goethe University Frankfurt, as well as playing for Eintracht Frankfurt's reserves, Klopp managed the Frankfurt D-Juniors
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Joined Ein Frankfurt in 1987.
Played for Eintracht Frankfurt II (1987–1988).
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Played for Eintracht Frankfurt (1987–1988).
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Played for 1. FC Pforzheim (1987–1987) — 4 appearances, 0 goals.
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“never thought [Manchester City”
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Born 1967-06-16.
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but it depends on which kind of story the neutral fan wants to hear. If he respects the story of Bayern, and how much they have won since the 1970s, he can support them. But if he wants the new story, the special story, it must be Dortmund. I think, in this moment in the football world, you have to be on our side.
Obviously, Liverpool was in the last years not famous for treating or dealing with women's football outstandingly well. They didn't go down to the Championship for no reason....Now they are back and we have to make sure that we use the situation. It is a wonderful team, great coach and I'm really happy for them to get promoted.
s impossible for any club to dominate like United once did, but he is wrong. [...] I think if Klopp, who is only 53, stayed at Anfield for the next ten years, Liverpool would win at least five Premier League titles. He could keep building great sides because, as I mentioned, players join clubs to work with managers as good as him.
The best moment to win the ball is immediately after your team just lost it. The opponent is still looking for orientation where to pass the ball. He will have taken his eyes off the game to make his tackle or interception and he will have expended energy. Both make him vulnerable
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