Roberto De Zerbi Has Positively Impacted EPL Football – Klopp

Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp has come out to share how he calmed down a furious Roberto De Zerbi on the touchline. This is coming after both Brighton and Liverpool shared the spoils in their recent EPL clash.

According to him, he saw Roberto De Zerbi get really outraged during the game over a decision by the referee, and he had to use his age and experience to calm his fellow manager down.

Klopp added that he is a football lover, so he is grateful to the Brighton manager for his positive impact on the game.

His words, “[It was] a mix of everything. I have to say, I cannot respect more, could not respect more, what he is doing. Honestly, I am a real supporter of it. I am a football lover and if somebody comes in and has the impact he has on football it should not be underestimated. In the moment when he got a bit outraged, I used my age and tried to calm him down. I had no clue what they were talking about, I just saw if I am in a moment like this, there is a moment or a point, [that] you never come back appears.

I think he was close to that and then I tried to calm him down. I am not sure if he needed it or not, you can ask him, but he probably told me something about the penalty, but I had no clue what he was talking about. I think he wanted a penalty. That was the situation… Brighton could have had a penalty? Then he was talking about that, but I couldn’t say anything about it because I didn’t remember.”

WOW.

Jurgen Klopp is a German professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Liverpool. He is widely regarded as one of the best football managers in the world.

Jürgen Norbert Klopp was born on 16 June 1967 in Stuttgart, the state capital of Baden-Württemberg, to Elisabeth and Norbert Klopp, a travelling salesman and a former goalkeeper. Klopp grew up in the countryside in the Black Forest village of Glatten near Freudenstadt with two older sisters.

He started playing for local club SV Glatten and later TuS Ergenzingen as a junior player, with the next stint at 1. FC Pforzheim and then at three Frankfurt clubs, Eintracht Frankfurt II, Viktoria Sindlingen and Rot-Weiss Frankfurt during his adolescence.

Introduced to football through his father, Klopp was a supporter of VfB Stuttgart in his youth. As a young boy, Klopp aspired to become a doctor, but he did not believe he “was ever smart enough for a medical career”, saying “when they were handing out our A-Level certificates, my headmaster said to me, ‘I hope it works out with football, otherwise it’s not looking too good for you'”.