Jürgen Klopp

And they respected me from the first second.

We had Wolfgang Franke, the best manager we all had when we were at Mainz.

He was an exception.

We, at Mainz, we were a football team who lost all the games when the other team had better players.

I think it sounds normal, but you know, in football, it's a way to win games anyway.

We never had that.

So then Wolfgang Franke comes in and implements four in the back, ball-orientated defending, and we did nothing else than that.

And we changed overnight.

into the one opponent nobody wanted to play against.

We were like machines.

We were like machines.

We are not great football.

We were like machines.

There were games our goalkeeper didn't touch the ball once.

We were just defending.

It was new that time, so it was really for all of them.

That means we all became believers in that.

Then Wolfgang left, and none of the other coaches could do that.

There was no connection to the coaches after Wolfgang.

So I was one of the players who benefited massively from Wolfgang Frank.