{"id":35113,"date":"2026-07-24T12:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=35113"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:35:07","slug":"germany-appoint-former-liverpool-manager-jurgen-klopp-as-coach-after-disastrous-2026-fifa-world-cup-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=35113","title":{"rendered":"Germany appoint former Liverpool manager J\u00fcrgen Klopp as coach after disastrous 2026 FIFA World Cup | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Newly appointed head coach of the German national football team Juergen Klopp attends a news conference at the headquarters of the German Football Association DFB in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, July 24, 2026. (AP)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Germany has appointed J\u00fcrgen Klopp as its new national team coach, handing the former Liverpool manager the responsibility of rebuilding a side that once again failed to make an impact at the FIFA World Cup<\/a>.Klopp has signed a contract that will keep him in charge through the 2030 World Cup. Speaking after the announcement in Frankfurt on Friday, he described the appointment as \u201ca big honor\u201d and suggested it could be the final coaching job of his career.\u201cJ\u00fcrgen Klopp has no career after the national team,\u201d he said. \u201cIdeally, this will be the highlight of my career, my life, my working life. I will put everything into it that I possibly can.\u201dHe replaces Julian Nagelsmann, who resigned after Germany’s defeat to Paraguay saw the team fail to reach the last 16 of a men’s World Cup for the third tournament in a row.Klopp wants to reconnect Germany with its fansThis is Klopp’s first coaching role since stepping down as Liverpool manager in 2024, when he cited fatigue as the reason for leaving. During discussions over the Germany job, he said he felt \u201crecharged\u201d.Klopp indicated he could make unexpected squad selections and said his goal extends beyond winning matches. He wants supporters to enjoy watching the national team again.He admitted, \u201cit’s been a while\u201d since he regularly watched Germany outside major tournaments.\u201cI want to create something with the national team that means that people go home after the game and think \u2018That was really cool.\u2019 That’s what I’d like to see happen,\u201d he said.Klopp also said he would be willing to leave without any severance package if things did not work out. He also warned that he would resign if the media did not \u201cleave my family in peace.\u201dKlopp, known for his attacking style at Liverpool, became Germany’s preferred choice soon after Nagelsmann stepped down.Negotiations continued over several weeks while Klopp was in the United States working as a World Cup pundit for a German-language broadcaster.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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Newly appointed head coach of the German national football team Juergen Klopp attends a news conference at the headquarters of the German Football Association DFB in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, July 24, 2026. (AP) Germany has appointed J\u00fcrgen Klopp as its new national team coach, handing the former Liverpool manager the responsibility of rebuilding a side…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}