One, is soul rocker, says listen and motivate with the heavy metal, the other listen to Sabina and Serrat, meditate and S And delights with the Spaniards. Both are intense, they are in the elite of world football, have many dissimilar things in terms of their shape and background, but both are, today, two of the best technicians in the world: Jurgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino.
Klopp was not a great player, but he is a tremendous training and leader of his teams. The German, declared partisan of left, lover of a good beer and follower of Metallica, is sometimes atypical. Creator of a tremendous Borussia Dortmund, with second-order figures, disputed the league to the Almighty Bayern Munich and fought the champions before the Bavarians, leaving on the way to the Galactic Real Madrid.
Klopp is so close and distant at the same time of its players, that it knows to mark the limits and this, has led it to have as one of its principal tactics the leadership of the group. There is no player who does not stop exloasing for the Born in Stuttgart 51 years ago.
He came to Liverpool and immediately understood that there was chemistry with this special English team. They merged technical and plant in one objective: to delight the faithful who sing “You ‘ ‘ ll Never Walk Alone”, the insignia hymn of the Reds. Watch Liverpool play is impregnated with the power and electricity of Metallica on stage, Klopp is James Hetfiel, so live football on the edge of the court, equal to the vocalist on stage, and after each game gives a smile with that perfect white teeth You have.
Liverpool is a team made for Klopp and vice versa. When they lost the final of the champions 2018 to Real Madrid where Archer Karius had a fateful night, the German technician appeared singing and celebrating with his players. Although the task was not fulfilled one hundred percent, it was seen as the leader who is, charismatic and close.
His sometimes scruffy appearance, barbon-says he does not like shaving because he is short-sighted-and always a diver, makes him look like he comes out of a bar in Liverpool, but the German giant laughs at all that. It’s like that, relaxed and always smiling.
On the other sidewalk is Pochettino. The Argentinean trained as a coach in Barcelona and is more European than South American in the way he sees and enjoys football. For more than four years he does not travel to his country, buys the yerba mate online and loves to dress in suits in every game, always shaved and impeccable, as fresh from a showcase of Harvey Nichols. It’s always seen as analyzing everything and it’s hard to get smiles.
In spite of its trans-Andean passion, Pochettino-who was player of Bielsa and besides follower of the Rosario-it is shown ever more leisurely and calmed than Klopp. When he came to lead the Southampton on 2013, he had to learn English and at first survived thanks to a few words that his wife and children wrote on a paper. That season served the Murphy-born, so that Tottenham will look at him as the builder of the new version of the London club.
And the bet was quite accurate. The English team that participated in the Russian World Cup 2018 had five key players of the Tottenham in their ranks-Kane, Delle Ali, Trippier, Dier and Rose-alongside the Belgians Anderweireld, Verthogen and Dembele and, if that were not enough, the Archer of France world champion Hugo Lloris.
Pochettino is a technician who believes in his players, projects and power. This year the leadership asked him to finish the new and modern stadium of the Spurs, in exchange for not bringing reinforcements, to what the technician said OK, because part of the sport policy of Tottenham has been the shooting to the chimney. The Transandino feels part of the permanent construction of the institution.
It is more Catalan than Argentinian, it adores wine, nature and it made a diploma of management of Company. He is a technician who spends more than 12 hours in the sports city of Enfield, a real recreational area and full of green everywhere, his ideal environment.
The roads of Klopp and Pochettino aim to achieve the maximum European achievement: the champions. And obviously both arrive preceded by parties full of emotion in the semi-finals, as their squads managed to reverse almost impossible keys.
Both have a common course in the medium term, to be the country’s selectors. This is marked in the fate of Klopp and Pochettino, because in addition to being authentic characters of the fauna of football, are leaders, strategists, psychologists of their players, the ground wire within the madness that generates this activity and the millions of euros that revolve to lrededor.
Klopp is the rocker, Pochettino the Troubadour. Both are passionate, deliver everything on stage and their players follow. They are a promise that this final will be unforgettable, because those who command this adventure are two visionaries of a new world football order. They are different in appearance, but in the background they are the same in the premise of respecting the Spectator and the sacred game of football.
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