| Capital: | € 40 million |
| Age: | 52 |
| Born: | June 16, 1967 |
| Country of origin: | Germany |
| Source of wealth: | Soccer player |
| Last updated: | 2020 |
Short introduction
Jürgen Klopp is considered as one of the most successful German football coaches. Swabian was associated with FSV Mainz 05 as a player and then the coach for almost two decades until he moved to Dortmund, where he won the German championship twice. After moving to Football Motherland England, he also secured a victory in the Champions League with Liverpool FC in 2019.
Early life
Klopp was born in Stuttgart in the 1960s on June 16, 1967 and grew up in the black forest with his parents and two sisters. Jürgen Klopp’s father was an amateur footballer himself and triggered his desire to soccer with the only son. As a child, Klopp dreamed of a great career as a footballer, coach or manager. Idol his childhood was Stuttgart International Karl-Heinz Förster. The Klopp line as an active player is very difficult: through the small village team and amateur team, he ends up at Rot-Weiß Frankfurt and, with this club, which was trained by Legend to train Dragoslav Stepanovic, missed promotion to the second division in 1990 after losing to FSV Mainz 05. However, this defeat was the fate game for Klopp because he took him to Mainz, where he found a football house for the next 18 years.
Career
Between 1990 and 2001, “Kloppo” wore Mainz Jersey continuously and played more than 300 matches in the second division for the team. Klopp used partially in the midfield attacking and partially as an advanced center. His hunger for the only moderate purpose, at eleven years to Mainz he only managed 52 goals, but he managed the achievements to score four goals against Rot-Weiß Erfurt in 1992 in one match. Klopp plays against relegation more often than in front places, but Mainz always manages to live in the league. In the 1996/97 season under coach Reinhard Saftig they had just missed promotions to the Bundesliga with fourth place at the table. In the 2000/2001 season, Klopp then switched from the player to the coaching role and in the first year just made the 14th place on the table and thus relegation. In his fourth season as a coach, he then led Mainz to third place at the table, titled to promotion to the Bundesliga.
Career highlights
As Bundesliga coach, Klopp remained loyal to FSV Mainz for several years, only when the mainz team was relegated to the second Bundesliga and missed direct relegation carried out by coaches and clubs. Now the success of Klopp as a coach at Borussia Dortmund begins. He took over the club in 2008 and formed a top team of teams that secured the German Championship title twice in 2011 and 2012. In 2012, the DFB Cup won a double, the greatest success for a coach in German football. At the international level, Kloppo also led Dortmund in 2013 to a pure German Champions League final, where Dortmund was defeated by Bayern.
After years of less successful, Klopp left Dortmund for England in the 2015 season and became the coach of Liverpool FC in the Premier League. As runner-up in 2019, he missed narrowly to win the British championship. However, he won his first Champions League final with Liverpool in the same year after a 2-0 victory over Tottenham and became the third German coach after Jupp Heynckes and Ottmar Hitzfeld, who managed this with an English club.
Amazing facts
Although Jürgen Klopp is one of the highest paid coaches in the world today and generates annual salaries in the ranks of single high digits, not a single euro transfer amount paid for him as a player. Because he initially only played for a small amateur club, there was no transfer fee because when he moved to Mainz and he remained loyal to this club for so long, never had to pay the euro to finance Klopp club changes. The entry of Klopp into the training profession was also curious: When his club FSV Mainz 05 stood with his back to the wall and shortly before relegation in the 2000/2001 season, coach Ekhard Krautzun was fired. Klopp, who was injured as a player, took the role of the coach more or less spontaneously. Even though he did not have a training license in his pocket, he did have a sports degree, which qualified him as a coach of the Boss’s club perspective. It was a true decision by the Mainz team in everything.
