In what would be one of the most significant coaching appointments in recent football history, Der Spiegel reports that Jürgen Klopp is in line to become Germany’s next national team manager. The outlet traced seven defining moments of Klopp’s career — from his charismatic rise at Borussia Dortmund to his Champions League triumph with Liverpool to his controversial move into the Red Bull corporate orbit — to explain what makes him both an ideal and a complicated candidate for the role.
Klopp has long been Germany’s “TV Bundestrainer” — the man fans wanted on the touchline. Whether he can translate club-level magic into international tournament success remains football’s great unanswered question, but the appointment would electrify German football at a time when it badly needs a jolt.
