WHEN JURGEN HAD A REAL FLARE FOR FOOTBALL

A TRUE child of the Seventies, young Jurgen (centre) and his father, Norbert, are pictured in the town of Bad Kreuznach in 1975.

Thirty-six years later, Klopp was staying in a hotel in Bad Kreuznach when he got the phone call asking him to become manager of Mainz. ‘Great idea. Let’s do it,’ was his instant reply.