Jurgen Klopp reflects on winning first league title in Dortmund as he meets on Zoom Call

Jurgen Klopp reunited with his former Borussia Dortmund stars to remember his 2011 Bundesliga title triumph when the Liverpool boss joined Mats Hummels, Mario Gotze and Nuri Sahin on a Zoom call.

Klopp is about to beat Pep Guardiola for the Premier League title with the Merseyside club, but it will not be the charismatic German’s first national league title, having stormed the Bundesliga with Dortmund, firing arch rivals at Bayern Munich nine years ago. years.

And the 52-year-old joined his class of 2011 on the Zoom video conferencing platform to share his memories of that triumph, fondly speaking of his time in western Germany.

Jurgen Klopp recalled Borussia Dortmund’s 2011 title win in a Zoom call

“It’s right there,” he revealed. ‘I haven’t woken up every morning and I think about April 30, 2011, but after you called, I tried to do it for a few days to remember it.

‘A lot has happened in my life, but it is not the case that I have won so much that I mix everything. But 2011 and 12 are not that easy because the team didn’t change much and when I was thinking about the games we were playing, I was trying to remember: was that 2010-11 or 11-12?

“But I have nothing but fond memories and it probably had a big impact on my coaching career.” We really made the most of what we had. Winning the promotion with Mainz was unexpected for all of us and I didn’t know what would happen next, that was very important. ”

Dortmund saw archrival Bayern Munich crowned German champion in 2011

That triumph for the title saw Klopp driven as one of the top managers of European football.

Klopp oversaw the development of a number of promising young talents, including Gotze, Robert Lewandowski, and Marco Reus. Klopp reflected that he still saw these players as youth team stars.

“Bringing these under-19s to the German title, I felt they were under 19, it was incredible.” “It changed our lives and now that I think about it, I’m still in touch with pretty much all of them.”

The Liverpool boss recalled the particular date Dortmund was crowned champion (April 30, 2011) when Signal Iduna Park went into ecstasy after hearing that Cologne had scored against Bayern Munich.

Klopp teamed up with his former Dortmund players at Zoom to reflect on that triumphant season.

He told the Dortmund official website that he still viewed that group of players as under 19 players.

The footage revealed that Klopp maintained his energetic personality at the touchline despite his team apparently cruising to a routine victory over FC Nurnberg.

‘Well, I am a coach. I couldn’t open the beers when it was 2-0! It wasn’t over, even though my inner feeling was “this is it,” the game was still working.

‘Even at times like that you have to rant and rave players. We wanted to win the game, it was not about crossing the line as we could, but about crossing it in the best possible way. ”