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VfB Stuttgart, Mainz and Hertha Berlin line up friendlies with Jürgen Klopp's Liverpool
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Bundesliga trio VfB Stuttgart, Mainz and Hertha Berlin have added friendlies against Jürgen Klopp's Liverpool to their respective pre-season schedules.
Stuttgart take on Liverpool as part of a mini round-robin tournament in Saalfelden, Austria on 20 July. Mainz lock wits with their former player and coach in Grödig three days later, before Hertha face last season's fourth-placed English Premier League team in Innsbruck on 29 July.
A world-class coach made in the Bundesliga, Klopp has links to all three clubs.
The 54-year-old was born in Stuttgart, but made his name in football at Mainz. He spent a decade with the 05ers as a player, making 340 appearances, before taking over as head coach and securing a historic promotion to the Bundesliga at the fourth attempt in 2003/04.
After departing Mainz in 2008, paving the way for successors such as Chelsea's 2020/21 UEFA Champions League-winning boss Thomas Tuchel and current Mainz tactician Bo Svensson, Klopp went on to enjoy unprecedented success at the helm of Borussia Dortmund. Across seven years in charge, he got his hands on two Bundesliga titles in a row and the DFB Cup, whilst taking the Black-Yellows to the 2012/13 Champions League final.
Since joining Liverpool in 2015, infusing the side with ex-Bundesliga players including the likes of Joel Matip, Naby Keita, Xherdan Shaqiri and Roberto Firmino, Klopp has reached two further Champions League finals, lifting the trophy in 2018/19, and landed the Merseysiders their first ever English Premier League title.
Kevin-Prince Boateng - back at boyhood club Hertha for one final hurrah as a professional footballer - played under the now Liverpool coach at Dortmund in 2009.
"Had Dortmund qualified for Europe at the time, they would have bought me," Boateng recalled in an interview with Goal.
“Klopp called me personally and told me that they couldn't resolve the situation. I was very sad about that and the normally tough Prince cried. I felt that something big could happen in Dortmund, so I wanted to stay. But it wasn't meant to happen. For Klopp, I would even have gone to China!"
Boateng's immediate objectives are to help steer Hertha back up the Bundesliga standings, following last season's dice with the drop. Stuttgart are gearing up for a second straight season in the German top flight, while Mainz have a first full campaign under Svensson - who worked under Klopp as a player - to look forward to.
The three Bundesliga clubs are in DFB Cup first-round action over the first weekend of August, before kicking off the new top-flight season a week later.
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Bundesliga trio VfB Stuttgart, Mainz and Hertha Berlin have added friendlies against Jürgen Klopp's Liverpool to their respective pre-season schedules.
Stuttgart take on Liverpool as part of a mini round-robin tournament in Saalfelden, Austria on 20 July. Mainz lock wits with their former player and coach in Grödig three days later, before Hertha face last season's fourth-placed English Premier League team in Innsbruck on 29 July.
A world-class coach made in the Bundesliga, Klopp has links to all three clubs.
The 54-year-old was born in Stuttgart, but made his name in football at Mainz. He spent a decade with the 05ers as a player, making 340 appearances, before taking over as head coach and securing a historic promotion to the Bundesliga at the fourth attempt in 2003/04.
After departing Mainz in 2008, paving the way for successors such as Chelsea's 2020/21 UEFA Champions League-winning boss Thomas Tuchel and current Mainz tactician Bo Svensson, Klopp went on to enjoy unprecedented success at the helm of Borussia Dortmund. Across seven years in charge, he got his hands on two Bundesliga titles in a row and the DFB Cup, whilst taking the Black-Yellows to the 2012/13 Champions League final.
Since joining Liverpool in 2015, infusing the side with ex-Bundesliga players including the likes of Joel Matip, Naby Keita, Xherdan Shaqiri and Roberto Firmino, Klopp has reached two further Champions League finals, lifting the trophy in 2018/19, and landed the Merseysiders their first ever English Premier League title.
Kevin-Prince Boateng - back at boyhood club Hertha for one final hurrah as a professional footballer - played under the now Liverpool coach at Dortmund in 2009.
"Had Dortmund qualified for Europe at the time, they would have bought me," Boateng recalled in an interview with Goal.
“Klopp called me personally and told me that they couldn't resolve the situation. I was very sad about that and the normally tough Prince cried. I felt that something big could happen in Dortmund, so I wanted to stay. But it wasn't meant to happen. For Klopp, I would even have gone to China!"
Boateng's immediate objectives are to help steer Hertha back up the Bundesliga standings, following last season's dice with the drop. Stuttgart are gearing up for a second straight season in the German top flight, while Mainz have a first full campaign under Svensson - who worked under Klopp as a player - to look forward to.
The three Bundesliga clubs are in DFB Cup first-round action over the first weekend of August, before kicking off the new top-flight season a week later.
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Do colours signify wokeness now?
Can’t be long before calling something “woke” will be a sign of wokeness.
Any video of Virgil Gomez or Matip training with the team? Or are they still covered in bubble wrap
Saw all three there on Instagram.
I doubt it. Tokyo will be under lockdown and Japan is soaring in Covid cases.
Add to that Olympic footy is shite, I’d wager he’s happy to get out of it.
It's very strange. I checked out the vaccination rates for both Japan and South Korea a few days ago (since both have soaring infection rates) and both are relatively low, both are around 30% for one jab.
China is now well over 50% and next month will start to refuse access to hospitals, museums, airports etc. etc. to the unvaccinated, Canada & UK are both well over 60%, Italy and Germany approaching 60%, France & USA both well over 50%. Most of Europe is now between 35 & 45% with at least one shot. How a country about to stage the Olympics can be that low is unconscionable.
Well that’s some tattoo on yer mans leg... beats having an AK47... but I hope it doesn’t signify his father was buggered to death by a Greek philosopher.
Has Klopp had laser eye surgery or something? Or is he doing contacts now.
Progressive flag, for the POC LGBTs and the trans colours also... we were asked to add it to our email signatures a while back.
The Americans probably made him do it.
Probably found some data that shows that consumers are more likely to buy products featuring individuals that don't wear glasses.
Same way they made Klopp and Rodgers fix their teeth.
Exactly, if anything I would think they would do the opposite. Get your eye fixed but make sure you have the glasses for the marketing.
Assert dominance - No mucking about!
So that means your HR department will have that flag at the bottom of each rejection email they send out to a black job applicant? Got it. You love to see it.
Konate looks a massive unit in those vidoes. Nice to see the long term injuries returning like Gomez and Virgil. Looking at it, they will be there or there about for the start of the season. Konate and Virgil CB pairing will be tasty.
That is a very large scar on VVD's knee. My happiness to see him playing again just got a huge grain of salt in its eye.
Well at least our pre season isn't this much of a shit show already
Sure it will make an appearance in the All or Nothing programme they have agreed to do this season
He looks like an adult playing against a couple of 12 year olds
Origi looks like he's contemplating his future academic career, where he won't ever again have to bump shoulders with physical specimens like Konate.
Yeah, that's two of the toughest opponents you could imagine right there.
Klopp told the club's website:
"Virg and Joe will not have double sessions now for the first few days with the team. They have a second session of the day but it's with the rehab department, physiotherapy - these kinds of things.
"That's for these two. (They) look really good. I don't know exactly when we can make the next steps but it will happen in the next four weeks. For sure, we will get a big step forward."
"Joel looks good, absolutely, he is the closest probably to normal training and then we will see when we get him started for playing.
"Trent was a serious enough injury but now not a major one, I would say. He is close but for the moment, probably the next five or six days he has a special programme - from time to time with the team, from time to time by himself. But then in five or six or seven days he should be in normal team training."
"Virg and Joe will not have double sessions now for the first few days with the team. They have a second session of the day but it's with the rehab department, physiotherapy - these kinds of things.
"That's for these two. (They) look really good. I don't know exactly when we can make the next steps but it will happen in the next four weeks. For sure, we will get a big step forward."
"Joel looks good, absolutely, he is the closest probably to normal training and then we will see when we get him started for playing.
"Trent was a serious enough injury but now not a major one, I would say. He is close but for the moment, probably the next five or six days he has a special programme - from time to time with the team, from time to time by himself. But then in five or six or seven days he should be in normal team training."
Those 3 will be sound for the start of the season.
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