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Jurgen Klopp takes Liverpool to a 4-0 win over Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final of 2019. With 2 key players out from injuries, for Liverpool it was all about the mind and its approach to the game with a mentality to go out there and do whatever was needed. It strained credulity. In 7 minutes it was 1-0. In less than an hour it was 3-0. Without Firmino and Salah, two of their best players, it was disbelief at Anfield. Messi and Suarez tried for Barcelona, but it made no difference.

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The rivalry between Jurgen Klopp of Liverpool and Pep Guardiola of Manchester City with only one point separating the two teams in the Premier League. Liverpool was 3-3 with Benefica of Portugal on the second leg, after winning 3-1 in the first. Liverpool now meet Villareal in the Champions League semifinals and will play Manchester City in the Premier League. Villareal, part of the Valencian community in eastern Spain, won aginst Bayern Munich and Juventus to get to the semi-finals.

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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp on how his team plays soccer and does not cover the whole field. He wants Alexander Arnold to play further up making it hard to cover defense fully. But that is the way his team plays, and it is his responsibility, says Klopp.

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Klopp sees a 1% chance to overcome a 3 goal deficit against Real Madrid in the Champions League. He says Liverpool has nothing to lose. 

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Liverpool under coach Jurgen Klopp's inspirational leadership take the Champion's League trophy after winning 5 to 3 against Chelsea at Anfield stadium. Exceptional goals by Keita, Alexander-Arnold, Brazilian Firmino for Liverpool and by Pulisic for Chelsea.

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The Brazilian goalkeeper for Jurgen Klopp's  Liverpool team does something few goalkeepers have ever done and a first in Liverpool's 129 year history. He scored a header goal in the 95th minute against West Brom, keeping Liverpool's Champion's League hopes alive.

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This in depth look by the BBC shows what makes soccer coach Jurgen Klopp approach work in building the best team in Europe- hard work, careful preparation, rigorous training, development of young talent and faith within oneself. As Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp takes his team to the Premier League and world titles it is not just his enthusiastic manner in support of his players, energy and outgoing style that has brought results. The training ground and training sessions are what make the difference. This is Klopp's view- it is all about the hard work at training to which he gives all his attention. Training sessions are meticulously planned and this is where tactics are tested analytical details, and details of the game get tested and tried out. This report looks at how he has recruited new players such as Dijk and Salah and how he is developing new talent from within the system. And how Klopp and his assistants conduct training on the field. ...

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The story of how Jurgen Klopp took Liverpool to the Champions League and Premier League titles in 2020. For all the illusion that the titles were a procession Liverpool started out with problematic losses to Dortmund, Seville, Napoli. It was the hard work and rigorous practice, self discipline, and renewal, the always focussing on the next step and how to do better regardless of how things look- this has helped Klopp get the team to where it is in world soccer. Continuous improvement setting your own bar of what it is to be to do the work right. In a small town overlooking Lake Geneva soccer practice takes place every day at 7 am, 11 am, 5 pm, in preseason. No distractions, no commercial obligations. Only the coach, players, and staff. Steudtner, German surfer invited by Klopp helped the team cool down in training by focussing underwater on happier places, taking a lot of the stress off the minds of the players. Hold for 30, 40, 60 seconds. Soon everyone could do it. The aim to cool down each player's mindset. A form of meditation. ...

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Hansi Flick joined Bayern Munich as an interim manager in November 2019. In less than one year he has transformed the German team. Routing Barcelona 8-2 in the semifinals of the Champions League. Taking the team to wins in the Bundesliga and the Champions League. In the manner of Zidane he has a strong bond with the players and trusts each player to develop his own individual style of play, avoided depending on stars who cost a fortune saving the club much money, and giving opportunity to a new generation of talent. He trusted Kimmich, Alfonso Davies, and put Kingsley Coman in for the finals with PSG after his great performance in the Barcelona game. No star antics or displays as veterans Neuer and Muller worked gracefully alongside the younger player for their individual roles fitting into the larger scheme of play. Some of the acclaim puts Flick now ahead of Pep Guardiola and in league with Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool, Zidane at Real Madrid. Flick and Zidane have something in common. ...

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The poor kid from Sao Jose Dos Campos 150 miles northeast of Sao Paulo makes it against all odds to play soccer in Sao Paulo. Steve Lowe of the Guardian does this wonderful interview for soccer fans with Casemiro the defensive midfielder for Real Madrid.  Casemiro is all humility, hard work down to the kind of details soccer coach Jurgen Klopp loves to pay attention to in practice, and never forgets the values his mom taught him about not being too loud. And to remember where he came from, to always look for ways to help other kids like him aspiring for a better life. Casemiro says he plays strong and even aggressive, but it is always about using your head in the game, the key was thinking ahead, being better positioned, seeing the move before it takes place. It cost 3 euros per week to practice at a club 6 mile walk away which he could not afford once he came to Sao Paulo. Mr. Moreira who ran the club paid for his boots, food and the fees. When he says he gives 200% Casemiro is speaking with authenticity because it was hard in Brazil for kids from poor families aspiring to make it in club football. He loves to learn, listens well, and he says he watches the errors, thinks like a coach, always trying to read the game, the other team's mind, their coach, what they were trying to get get done. He sees it as his work and does this in a disciplined manner. Casemiro may now be the top player in world soccer today as Real Madrid head to Manchester City under coach Zinedin Zidane. Zidane meant a lot to Casemiro as inspiration in the early days he played in Brazil.   ...