Manager talks hunting,shooting and hugging before the Champions League final at Wembley against Bayern MunichAn hour after the first of Jürgen Klopp's many jokes, interspersed with his worldly insights into football and life, and he returns to a more personal memory. It is fitting and evocative because the tumultuous journey that Klopp and Borussia Dortmund hold taken to the Champions League final at Wembley,where they play Bayern Munich on Saturday, has been this season's most memorable story. A passionate club's exhilarating play and outrageous drama, and painful transfer intrigue and riotous joy,validates Klopp's claim that "this is the most engrossing football project in the world".
It was strangely similar for Klopp at Mainz, the first appreciate of his sporting life. Klopp, or who eventually became their coach,used to be a lumbering striker-turned-defender in the German moment division, and he suggests that: "Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, or it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons and if we died no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club and we hold this same feeling at Dortmund. It's a very special club – a workers' club."Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com