Farewell Jurgen: Klopp's origin story from Stuttgart to Liverpool
It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast
The Overlap
4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the latest episode of The Overlap’s football history podcast, It Was What It Was.
Jonathan Wilson and Rob Draper continue the series with a unite insight into the life of Jurgen Klopp.
Klopp leaves his managerial role at Liverpool having ended their 30 year top flight trophy drought alongside a historic Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup and Club World Cup during a 9-year period that changed Anfield.
Rightly regarded as one of the most important managerial spells in the Reds history, Jonathan and Rob explore the events that made Klopp the charismatic manager he is today.
From his childhood and familial upbringing in Baden-Wurttemberg in Stuttgart to his playing then managerial stint at Mainz - that included an incredible final day of the season encounter - It Was What It Was gives a detailed look into the life of the German manager.
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| 0:00.0 | I've been thinking about yesterday and decided that it must have happened for a good reason. |
| 0:13.0 | And I've decided that someone somewhere wanted to show to the world that when you get knocked down, not once, not twice, but even three or four times, that you can get up again and keep fighting. |
| 0:24.4 | And that person decided there was no better town to show this to the world than might's. |
| 0:29.8 | Which club has experienced what we went through last season? |
| 0:32.8 | Which club has gone through what we've been through this season? |
| 0:35.8 | And now which club are going to have the story? |
| 0:38.4 | We're going to have next season when we come back even stronger. |
| 0:43.4 | I'm Jonathan Wilson. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm with Rob Draper. |
| 0:45.9 | And that was a remarkably powerful rendition of what Juergen Klopp said in June 2003 |
| 0:51.3 | on a Gutenberg place in Mainz, |
| 0:53.8 | after Mainz had narrowly failed to win |
| 0:55.5 | promotion and he's jeering them up to go again the following season. So this week on it was |
| 1:01.7 | what it was, what feels like a very momentous time for Liverpool, maybe the biggest change |
| 1:06.9 | of manager that they've had since Bill Shankly left in 1974. We're going to look back |
| 1:10.9 | at Yergen Klopp, at his origin stories, how he got into management and how his upbringing |
| 1:17.2 | shaped the man and the manager he became. So Rob, why don't you start with this deep dive |
| 1:24.0 | by taking us back into his birth and his background in Western Germany. |
| 1:31.2 | Yeah, so Juergen Klopp was born in Stuttgart. |
| 1:37.1 | It's remarkable how many huge German tactical forces are born in this area. |
| 1:39.8 | And we're going to come to that later in the podcast. |
| 1:44.0 | But he grows up in Galatin, which is a little village in a black forest. |
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