By: EFE Updated 28 Apr 2022, 14: 51 pm EDT
The German coach Jürgen Klopp, manager of Liverpool, has renewed his contract with the English team until 2026 , two years more than he had signed.
The renewal announcement comes after the 2-0 victory against Villarreal in the first leg of the semifinals, which leaves Liverpool one step away from his third Champions League final since Klopp came to the English bench in 2015.
OFFICIAL!! Jürgen Klopp extended contract with Liverpool. The German DT signed a bond that will relate him to The Reds until 2026. If he honors the deal, he will spend more than a decade with the Anfield giant. He woke up the giant, he has already won 5 titles, and he is going for much more. NOTICE. pic.twitter.com/PFlgh7DyWi
– Undefeated (@InvictosSomos) April 14, 2026
With the Anfield team, Klopp has won a Premier League, the first in recent times 30 years of club history, a League Cup, a European Super Cup, a Club World Cup and the sixth European Cup for Liverpool. In addition, this season, he is on the way to achieving what no one has achieved in the history of English football, the poker of titles.
Liverpool already has the Cup of the League, conquered against Chelsea, is in the FA Cup final, also against the ‘Blues’, one step away from the Champions League final, which will be played on 28 May in Paris, already one point behind Manchester City in the Premier League with five games to play.
Individually, Klopp won in 2019 Y 2020 The Best award, awarded by FIFA, for best coach.
The German, who before he had managed Mainz and Borussia Dortmund, arrived at Liverpool in 2015, leading the team in his first season to the Europa League final, where lost against Unai Emery’s Sevilla.
After returning Liverpool to the Champions League in his first full season at Anfield, Klopp was runner-up in the season 2018/2019 and the Premier the following year, with the disappointment of conquering it behind closed doors due to covid.
“There are many words I could use to describe how I feel… Delighted, humbled, blessed, privileged and excited would be a good way to start,” Klopp said in the official renewal statement.
Along with Klopp, his assistants Pep Lijnders and Pete Krawietz have also renewed their contracts.
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