2024-10-10 03:01:00
German Jurgen Klopp, who left his position as Liverpool manager at the end of last season due to a “lack of energy”, was appointed as the new “global head of football” of the Red Bull group, which owns clubs in Austria, Germany, Brazil, the United States and Ghana.
After his new job was confirmed, which he will begin in 2025, the former coach was very happy. “After 25 years, I couldn’t be more excited to get involved in a project like this,” said Klopp, who in his new role will no longer be technical director, but will have a strategic role in which he will be an analyst and consultant in this regard. to hiring players, coaches and in the development of clubs, according to German media.
Beyond his new role, Klopp will have an exit clause if he is called by the German Football Federation if they consider him the right one to replace the current technical director of the national team, Julian Nagelsmann.
The Red Bull group had great growth in the world of football in recent years, when it became the owner of clubs such as Salzburg in Austria, Leipzig in Germany, Bragantino in Brazil and New York in the United States, which mostly or to a lesser extent began to transform into teams of the most powerful in their respective countries.
Klopp, 57, began his career as a technical director at Mainz 05 in Germany, where he spent eight seasons. Then he made the big leap to Borussia Dortmund, a team he coached between 2008 and 2015. There he won two Bundesligas (2011 and 2012), a German Cup (2012) and two German Super Cups (2013 and 2014). In addition, they reached the final of the 2013 Champions League, in which they fell on the hour mark against Bayern Munich.
His last experience as a coach was at Liverpool in England, where he was the main protagonist in the resurgence of the team that had not competed for many years at both an international and local level. With the “Reds”, where he was between 2016 and mid-2024, he won the 2019 Champions League (he also reached the final in 2018 and 2022), the European Super Cup and the 2019 Club World Cup, the 2020 Premier League, the Copa of the League 2022 and 2024, the FA Cup 2022 and the Community Shield 2022.