The importance of Jurgen Klopp

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The manager of Liverpool Football Club, who lead them to victory in the Champions League. But Jurgen Klopp has not always been this successful. When he was a young footballer at Mainz 05 in Germany, his former team mate Guido Shafer says he 'had no talent'. So what can we learn from his childhood in Germany's Black Forest? How did he become the manager he is today?

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to the importance of Yergen Klop. This program might not be one for the Tophies.
0:06.4	You're listening to the BBC World Service. I'm Becky Milligan.
0:10.9	He started off as a footballer. To be honest, he had no
0:16.2	talents. No talent. Now he was he wasn't very skillful. He wasn't a
0:20.5	great tripler. He was very fast. fast right so he ran fast very fast with the ball or not
0:26.1	with the ball better without the ball luckily he moved off the pitch the The streets of Liverpool adorned in a magical red and white
0:36.5	sea. This week our subject is Yergen Klop, the manager of Liverpool Football Club, whose lead at the top of the table is the biggest in English
0:46.1	Premier League history.
0:49.2	Liverpool fans though were disappointed when it was announced that the league suspended due to the
0:54.2	coronavirus but Yergen Klop had a message for them. He said,
0:59.4	Today football and football matches really aren't important at all.
1:04.4	Please look after yourselves and look out for each other.
1:08.1	You'll never walk alone.
1:10.7	He may be right, but we're still going to spend the rest of the program talking about
1:16.0	him anyway. Clop's been hailed a football revolutionary and the fans have loved him for years.
1:22.1	It's unbelievable.
1:24.0	Absolutely delighted for Clark, it's deserved it all along.
1:27.0	It has been absolutely phenomenal,
1:30.0	and we have had the best life ever.
1:32.0	This will go on in history.
1:34.0	Coupe was a star.
1:37.0	Born in
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