Jürgen Klopp

Jürgen Klopp in 2010

Jürgen Norbert Klopp ( born June 16, 1967 in Stuttgart ) is a German football coach and former football player. For the first FSV Mainz 05 he worked between 1990 and 2001 as a player and then as coach until 2008. Since then, he coached the team of Borussia Dortmund, with which he was German champion in 2011 and 2012 won the Double. He also reached the final of the 2013 Dortmund UEFA Champions League.

• 2.1 1 FSV Mainz 05
• 2.2 Borussia Dortmund
• 2.3 personality
• 2.4 Coaches Stats

• 4.1 Coaches
• 4.2 Awards

Career as a player

Beginnings in amateur teams

Klopp played football as an amateur at the clubs TuS Ergenzingen, 1st FC Pforzheim, Eintracht Frankfurt ( reserve team ), Victoria Are Lingen and Rot-Weiss Frankfurt. With Rot-Weiss Frankfurt he failed in 1990 in the promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga 1 FSV Mainz 05 and was then concentrated to joining this club professional football player.

1 FSV Mainz 05

For the first FSV Mainz 05 Klopp denied 1990-2001 325 second-division games, making it in this league record holder in the club. With its total of 340 official matches he stood within the association, together with Michael Muller to early November 2006 to the first rank, then both were replaced by goalkeeper Dimo Wache. Klopp's 52 second division goals will be exceeded during 1 FSV Mainz 05 only by Sven Demandt. He is the only player besides Benjamin Auer of this association, who scored four goals in a second division game, so 1991/92 5-0 in the away game against FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt.

Career as a coach

1 FSV Mainz 05

As of February 28, 2001 trained Klopp the professional team of 1 FSV Mainz 05 He led the team as interim coach of the relegation zone of the 2nd Bundesliga relegation in 2001. Subsequently, he became head coach and missed with the club in the season 2001 / 02 and 2002/ 03 than in fourth just under the rise: in 2001/ 02 was missing the point a Mainz, 2002/ 03 goal difference a goal was too low. Third time in the season 2003/ 04 succeeded in promotion to the Bundesliga. In the two seasons 2004/ 05 and 2005/ 06 Klopp came eleventh place in the table with the Mainz.

Before the start of season 2005/ 06 Klopp reached with the first FSV Mainz 05 the biggest success in club history when his team moved through the UEFA Fair Play ranking, and with luck of the draw in the UEFA Cup qualification. There Mainz came against FK Mika Ashtarak from Armenia 4-0 and 0-0 as well as against ÍB Keflavik Iceland from 2-0 and 2-0 in the first round of the UEFA Cup competition in 2005 /06, in which the team against eventual UEFA Cup winners Sevilla FC 0-0 and 0-2 retired. In the Bundesliga Season 2006/07 1 FSV Mainz 05 rose again as a table from Sixteenth to the 2nd Bundesliga.

In April 2008, Klopp announced not to renew in case of no rise of 1 FSV Mainz 05 in the Bundesliga his expiring contract. On the final day of the 2007/08 season, the club missed the promotion to the Bundesliga in short supply, so that he as a coach in Mainz finished his duties on 30 June 2008.

Borussia Dortmund

Since 1 July 2008, Klopp Borussia Dortmund trained to, he again made ​​after a few seasons to a top club in German football. 2008/ 09 season, he finished sixth, so the club's participation in a European competition only just missed the relegation the previous season. In the 2009/10 season, the club qualified in fifth place for the Europa League 2010/11. In the two Bundesliga seasons 2010/11 and 2011/12 Borussia Dortmund won the German championship with Klopp as a coach. It passed in Dortmund in 2012 with 81 points as the first club in Bundesliga history, the 80 -point mark. A week later the club won by a 5-2 win against FC Bayern Munich in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin the DFB Cup and overtook the first double in their history. In the following season Dortmund finished in second place behind Bayern Munich and reached the final of the UEFA Champions League 2012/13.

In January 2012, extended Klopp Borussia Dortmund and the first valid until 2014 trainer contract until the summer of 2016, in October 2013 again until 2018.

Personality

Klopp regularly shows uncontrolled behavior, for which he has been repeatedly fined. In the Champions League match on September 18, 2013 against Naples he attracted international attention because of that. So writes the Corriere dello Sport: " Klopp is insane and disrespectful ".

Trainer Stats

Expert at football matches

Between 2005 and 2008, Klopp worked alongside his coach as a specialist at football on ZDF on the side of Johannes B. Kerner, Urs Meier and Franz Beckenbauer. Among other things, he analyzed in the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2008 matches for ZDF.

He worked doing a lot with an electronic " tactics - table." He analyzed scenes, pointed with virtual markers point to tactical error in the construction and illustrated how this resulted in early intercepted attacks or goals. The media preparation processes of the game was new on German television. Together with Kerner and Meier he got it and " best sports broadcast " award for the expert, entertaining football declaration on 20 October 2006 the German Television Award in the category.

During the 2010 World Cup Jürgen Klopp was at the side of Günther Jauch as an expert in football broadcasts of RTL in use and again won a television award in the same category.

Achievements

Coach

• Finalist UEFA Champions League 2012/13 with Borussia Dortmund
• German Champion (2): 2011, 2012 with Borussia Dortmund
• DFB Cup winners (1 ): 2012 with Borussia Dortmund
• German Supercup final (2): 2008 ( unofficially ) in 2013 with Borussia Dortmund
• Promotion to the Football League ( 1): 2004 Mainz 05

Awards

• Football Coach of the Year in Germany (2): 2011, 2012
• Team of the Year (1 ): 2011 with Borussia Dortmund
• German Television Award (2): 2006: in the category "Best sports show " for the annotation of the 2006 World Cup in ZDF (together with Johannes B. Kerner and Urs Meier )
• 2010: in the category "Best sports show " for reporting at the 2010 World Cup on RTL

Study

In 1995, Klopp completed his studies at the Johann -Wolfgang- Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with a degree in sports science. His diploma thesis he wrote about walking. After the climb, with Mainz in the Bundesliga in the summer of 2004 brought Klopp, who had only an A license as a trainer at this time, at the Sports University in Cologne his license as a football coach after.

Private

Klopp grew up with two older sisters in the community Smooth near Freudenstadt in the Black Forest, where he lived with his parents until the beginning of university studies.

From the relationship with his future wife comes first, born in 1989 son Marc, who played in the second team of Borussia Dortmund soccer and after many injury problems in the summer of 2012 ended his career at the age of 23 years. His second wife Ulla, a social worker and children's book author, whom he married in 2005, brought another son into the marriage. In the summer of 2009 he moved his residence from Unna to Herdecke, where a large part of the player from Borussia Dortmund lives.

Jürgen Klopp is an evangelical Christian who often professes his faith in public. In various interviews and an evangelical book project he described his faith in Jesus Christ.

Klopp support the initiative as an ambassador respect! No place for racism. At the German Championships in 2011 and 2012 supported the action Klopp Kick-Off for street children, which promotes football training for Brazilian street children. The focus of the action both times was the auction of signed portraits of the master trainer in favor of the project at an online auction.

Film

In the documentary coach! (2013 ) by director Alyosha break came Jürgen Klopp among other coaches such as Hans Meyer, Armin Veh, Stephan Schmidt, André Schubert and Frank Schmidt to speak.

Advertising

Since 2012 Jürgen Klopp acts as advertising for various brands and can therefore be seen in numerous commercials. Brands include the car brand Opel, styling and beard care products from Philips, as well as the people banks and Raiffeisen banks.