THE KLOPP KING: How Jurgen Klopp conquered Germany before leading Liverpool to glory
Those who expected the journey in Dortmund to be a ride like the season before were about to be given the rudest awakening after the departure of Thomas Doll.“It doesn’t make it any easier to run your heart out when you’ve just woken up in a five-star hotel. Too much comfort makes you comfortable.” With quotes like these you begin to see what spins the thoughts of Klopp.
A modest assessment and one perhaps knows that Klopp the player could not play under Klopp the manager, but despite downplaying his own abilities, the striker come defender still sits as FSV Mainz 05’s third record goal scorer of all time, retiring on 56 goals across 340 matches.All journeys start with tales of chance and this is no different, with no experience Klopp went from a player in a relegation-threatened side to overseeing promotion to the Bundesliga, in three seasons.
At Mainz, he not only tasted the champagne of promotion, but also the tears of narrowly missing out, twice. Amassed in the bars and pubs prior to the club’s fixture against Paderborn, the locals recalled their memories of him to the Sporting Life: The first season had shown the achievements at Mainz were by no means down to luck, and Klopp instilled that desire to leave it all on the pitch from the moment he arrived.
The Polish forward netted 74 Bundesliga goals while under the stewardship of Klopp, winning back-to-back Meisterschale over the 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons.
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