BERLIN, May 23 -- It is not hard to tell what the village of Glatten will look like this Saturday evening while the Champions League final being staged - the tiny place situated in the northern part of the Black Forest will be empty.

The local bar will, however, be serving more beer than usual. You will hardly find one of the 2,350 inhabitants not sitting in front of a television keeping their fingers crossed for the village's most famous son - one of Europe's top football coaches.

Most people in Glatten, 80 kilometers southwest of Stuttgart, can tell you a story about Liverpool's head coach Juergen Klopp, whose team will take on Real Madrid in the 2018 Champions League final in Kiev.

Even the very youngest can point to the house where Klopp grew up, and they know about his time in the primary school.

One of his closest friends, Hartmut Rath, was his "life insurance" at school. Klopp admitted that he "always pushed me and always knew the right answers to the teachers' questions." And while his mate Hartmut went for an A in his exams, Klopp was more than happy about a C. Both are said to have been rascals in their early years but were always in good terms with their fellow pupils.

He was a football fanatic, playing every minute he could and had talents in many other sports like tennis. Although he was gifted, Klopp only managed to play second division football for Mainz 05 (325 games).

"In my head, I was first division but my legs only were second division," Klopp said.

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