The real talents of the former striker and then defender lay in coaching; he admires full speed football. Before he felt ready for a big club like Liverpool and the Premier League, Manchester United, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur unsuccessfully tried to convince the 50-year-old to join them.

The 2011, 2017 league championships and the 2017 German Cup with Borussia Dortmund tell the story of the coaching genius from Klopp, who also led them to the 2013 Champions League final where they lost 2-1 to national rivals Bayern Munich.

In Mainz, Klopp developed his strong mentality in seven years of battling relegation as he did in endless training sessions with his father Norbert, an able goalkeeper and tennis player at the village club, SV Glatten.

His father and his later coach at Mainz, Wolfgang Frank, influenced him the most. Norbert Klopp passed on his sporting talents and charismatic character to his son, while to coach Juergen Klopp was shaped by Frank, who is described as being obsessed with football.

Isolde Reich, one of Klopp's two older sisters, says she will never forget the day she first saw her brother. Because doctors couldn't exclude possible complications occurring during pregnancy and birth, Klopp's mother Elisabeth went to a better equipped hospital in Stuttgart.

"They told us we would get a present when Mum returns," Reich remembers. "But all we got was a crying little brother." The disappointment wasn't a long-lasting one. Klopp's sister soon discovered "from now on I would not be required for the football sessions with my father. When Juergen was born my new life started," she says before adding she was the only girl in the entire Black Forest that had to play football.

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