Welcome to Soka 101, the podcast where we scratched the soccer riches you never knew you had.

Today, we're going to focus

on one of the most revered and successful coaches in the beautiful game, a man who's won multiple

titles, who's adored by the city of Liverpool, and whose soccer nouse and man management

are only matched by his character and charm. Sorry, Brendan Rogers, it's not you. We're talking about today. It's a man named Yergen Norbert Klopp. And yes, Norbert is his middle name. It was his dad's name. Fun fact. So what makes Plot tick? How did he develop his managerial style? Who is influences and who has he influenced? And why is he so gosh darn good at what he does. My name's Ryan Bailey,

joining me today to give props to the cop's favourite glop. It's Taylor Rockwell.

Hello. Graham Rutherman, hello. Hello, Ryan Bailey. Hello, Joe Lowry. Ahoy,

Ryan Bailey. Ahoy, hoie to you, Joe.

Graham, I heard you are saying you were surprised to hear of Yergen Klopp's middle name.

There's not enough Norbert's around.

There definitely isn't, and I'm surprised and delighted, quite frankly, that Yorgon Klop isn't Norbert.

Yeah.

Was that the Eddie Murphy movie franchise, or is that Norby it? I'm getting confused now. Maybe. See, now I'm sadder thinking about that movie franchise. Yeah. Let's just forget that happened. Yeah, Joe, you don't need to add that to your list of movies to watch, which we are slowly building for you, bear

in mind. But why don't you kick us off, Joe? Would you mind taking us back to where it all started with the Juergen Klopp, his early career, and how he got to where he is today? Absolutely. So I'm to wind us back to the beginning of Juergen Klopp's life. He was born in Stuttgart, started playing for some local clubs in Germany.

And I learned doing this research

that he wanted to be a doctor as a kid.

I didn't know this. There's a lot of interesting quotes that I came upon that I had never heard or read about before. So this quotes from The Guardian. This is Klopp speaking to the Guardian. He said, but I'm not going to lie, I don't think I was ever smart enough

for a medical career after he wanted to be a doctor. When they were handing out A-level certificates, my headmaster said to me, I hope it works out with football. Otherwise, it's not looking too good for you. And so I thought that was an interesting quote. I know. I'm guessing that is dramatized slightly from Yurgen Klopp to make his point. But he goes on to say later in that interview,

or at least in that article, it says that he has helper syndrome, which is, as far as I'm aware,

not an actual medical condition. But it's, it's this idea that Yergan Kloppy, even at a young age,

wanted to help people and work with people and, and up, filled up careers. And I think that really shines through his career now. So I think that's a really interesting aspect of all this,

that sort of informed the rest of my research and some of my takeaways from doing this

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