Jürgen Klopp’s long-time assistant Pep Lijnders will coach Salzburg next season as their era at Liverpool comes to an end. Salzburg says it hired the 41-year-old Lijnders to start a 3-year contract next season. It means Lijnders will take Salzburg to the revamped Club World Cup in June 2025 which Liverpool will miss.
Liverpool’s manager Jurgen Klopp walks on the pitch during warmup before the Europa League quarterfinal, second leg, soccer match between Atalanta and Liverpool at the Stadio di Bergamo, in Bergamo, Italy, Thursday, April 18, 2024. SALZBURG, Austria — Jürgen Klopp’s long-time assistant Pep Lijnders will coach Austria’s biggest club Salzburg next season as theirSalzburg is among 12 European teams in the 32-team tournament lineup in the United States next year.
Lijnders worked at Liverpool under Klopp’s predecessor, Brendan Rodgers, but stayed on when the inspirational German coach joined in 2015. He had a brief spell away in 2018 to coach NEC in his native Netherlands. Lijnders could take over a Salzburg team in the rare position of not being Austrian champion. Sturm Graz will end Salzburg’s 10-year run of titles on Sunday if it wins a season-ending game at home to Klagenfurt.
Salzburg’s title-winning coaches in the past decade of being funded by drinks giant Red Bull have included Roger Schmidt, Marco Rose and Jesse Marsch, the
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