Inside Klopp’s household life – divorce, turning into grandad and vow to new spouse

On Jan 26, 2024

Have all of us calmed down from the massive breaking information but?

Hopefully Liverpool followers are starting to return to phrases with the shock information that Jurgen Klopp is leaving on the finish of the season.

The German has labored wonders at Anfield since he arrived in 2015 – from successful the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup and the League Cup throughout his tremendous profitable spell.

But whereas everyone knows about his achievements from the dugout, we determined to try his household life. After all, one of many causes he’s departing the well-known Merseyside membership is that he’s “running out of energy” and his want is to steer a extra “normal life”.

Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp first being launched to Anfield in October 2015
(Image: AFP through Getty Images)

Klopp, 56, is a father to a son referred to as Marc who he had throughout his first marriage to a girl referred to as Sabine. His boy used to play for his former membership Borussia Dortmund however retired in 2015 due to damage issues.

However, the legendary supervisor went on to marry his second spouse, Ulla Sandrock, after assembly her whereas she was a waitress throughout Munich’s Oktoberfest in 2005.

The charity employee is affectionately generally known as The First Lady of Bundesliga in Germany and her selfless acts embody being a trainer and hospital staffer in Nairobi for 3 years. She can also be a youngsters’s novelist whose first e-book was referred to as ‘Tom and the Magic Football’.

Ulla has additionally been massively in style in Liverpool and whereas Klopp introduced the staff their first Premier League title in 30 years, she was praised for handing out meals vouchers to workers at Waitrose for his or her efforts in the course of the pandemic.

Klopp even credited her for persuading him to signal a contract extension on the membership till 2026 – regardless of him now going again on this.

At the time, he mentioned: “The most important contract in my life I signed is the one with Ulla. That’s where it started again. We sat in the kitchen at the table and Ulla said, ‘I can’t see us leaving in 2024.’

“What is very important and is probably the most important – because I could not work against that and wouldn’t want to work against it – is that my family, in this case especially Ulla, she just loves it here.

“If she would say, ‘Honestly, I love the football and I love watching it but I actually want to go home’, then we would go, that’s the truth. She started it and here we are.”

The pair don’t have any youngsters collectively however Ulla has a son referred to as Dennis and final yr he turned a father for the primary time aged 35.

Klopp mentioned it was a “blessing” to grow to be a grandad and he joked: ”I already seem like a grandad and now I’m one. Everything is sweet.

“Mum is sweet, dad is sweet and child is doing good as nicely. It’s a very long time in the past that we had been in that function to be trustworthy, however I can inform you it’s like driving a motorbike.

“It’s just beautiful. The most beautiful thing I have experienced in the last 30 years.”