Right, I've done a bit of searching to get the juices flowing. I've consolidated stuff Binny has posted about Klopp into one mega post for ye to read at your leisure.
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Jürgen Klopp cleaned up in MARCA.com's poll concerning who should take over from Carlo Ancelotti if the Italian leaves.
The departing Dortmund boss got[hl] 44% of the more than 30,000 votes, streets ahead of any other candidate.[/hl] Next in line was former Real Madrid player Míchel, who was given the nod by 14.7% of respondents, while Sevilla manager Unai Emery was third with 10.8%. Fourth was another German, Joachim Löw, with 9%.
Rafa Benítez, who is reportedly the frontrunner for the job, came in fifth with 8.9%. Despite his status at the club, Zinedine Zidane only has the support of 7.4% of our users. Porto and former Spain under-21 coach Julen Lopetegui was the penultimate pick (2.8%) ahead of André Villas-Boas (2.4%).[/article]
Jurgen Klopp's tactics board (displayed at Borusseum, the club's museum), from the Malaga game last season
Stats from his last season in charge at Dortmund.
-They won the DFL Super Cup, are in the finals of the DFB Cup, got into last 16 of CL (won the group ahead of Arsenal) and qualified for Europa League despite being in relegation zone during winter break (finished 7th, 2 pts off 6th and 3 pts off 5th).
- (As of winter break) Dortmund have the
most errors leading to goals in the Bundesliga (9)
- 3 of the 5 Bundesliga goals 2014-15 that were scored in the 1st minute of games were conceded b Borussia Dortmund.
- Only Dortmund conceded already 9 goals in the first 5 minutes of the first and second halves of the current Bundesliga season.
Injury list for final season. (Not sure what's going on here).
Peter Krawietz and Zeljko Buvac were the 2 backroom staffs who made the move from Mainz together with Klopp to Dortmund.
[article]Peter Krawietz joined Borussia Dortmund from FSV Mainz at the same time as Jürgen Klopp.[/B] Alongside his role as assistant coach a lot of his time is spent
dissecting video footage of BVB and their opponents.
“I also keep a close eye on the amateur and junior set ups at the club. I strive to communicate to the staff in these areas just what the professional section wants from them.”
Krawietz never played professional football and describes himself as an “enthusiastic amateur.” He gave up the game when he was 25 having realised that his sporting ambitions were unlikely to be matched by his sporting abilities. This realisation edged Krawietz towards a career in coaching.
He got to know Jürgen Klopp when they worked together for many years in Mainz. Krawietz had begun working there in 1996 as part of a project investigating the possibilities of video analysis. According to Krawietz, Klopp was the player who showed most interest in the work he was doing. The project led to Krawietz taking up a paid role at the club and
when Klopp became head coach Krawietz worked as a scout for FSV. Upon promotion, Krawietz was tasked with setting up his own scouting system.
When Jürgen Klopp told his best man that he would very much like to take him to Dortmund with him, Krawietz asked for a night to think about it. It didn’t take long to come to the conclusion that he would move to Dortmund when his wife Martina encouraged him to take this huge opportunity.
At BVB he has introduced the use of video analysis during the half-time interval. For two or three minutes the team are shown footage of mistaken runs, positional errors as well as suggested weaknesses in their opponents.[/article]
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Zeljko Buvac and Jürgen Klopp have known each other since 1992 when they both took the field in the services of FSV Mainz.While Klopp morphed from a striker to a defender, Buvac was a mainstay midfield strategist. They became good friends and remained in touch in the post Mainz years. Buvac moved on to play for SC Neukirchen and, having obtained his coaching badges, became first assistant coach, then the main man at the club.
When, in 2001, things weren’t going too well at FSV, Klopp was asked to take over the reins as coach and swiftly made the call to Buvac asking him to be his number two. It was a decision they had taken together years before, namely that if one or other got a chance in the professional game as coach, the other would get him on board too. Despite having three years more experience on the sidelines than the untried Klopp, Buvac was only too pleased to accept the offer of the job. Since then he has always been much more than a cone distributor for Jürgen Klopp. He is right-hand man (and so much more) on the training ground.
“Zeljko is the embodiment of all things football and a master of every form of training,” is Klopp’s description of his assistant. Indeed,
such is his wealth of knowledge that he is often referred to as “The Brain”. Buvac: “I don’t mind, they could call me a lot worse, it’s okay,”
Looking back on the last couple of years, Buvac commented, “The success we have enjoyed is down to plain hard work. But we have had a lot of fun along the way as well.” The man can be found at the training ground from early morning ‘til late at night and along with Klopp and Krawietz he has put pen to paper on a new contract. So, that means the successful trio will be with us until, at least, June 2016.[/article]
