Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has been shortlisted for #TheBest FIFA’s Men’s Coach award for 2019, alongside fellow Premier League managers Pep Guardiola and Mauricio Pochettino.
The German guided the Reds to their sixth Champions League triumph, as well as registering the third-highest ever points tally in PL history.
Pochettino’s Spurs met Liverpool in Madrid, but it was the Reds who ran out winners, and Pep guided his Manchester City team to a domestic treble.
Other nominees for the award include Algeria’s Djamel Belmadi, Brazil’s Tite, Portugal’s Fernando Santos, who guided their nations to international trophies this year, and Didier Deschamps, Marcelo Gallardo, Ricardo Gareca and Erik ten Hag.
🚨 Meet the coaching candidates! 🚨#TheBest Men's Coach nominees:
🇩🇿 Djamel Belmadi
🇫🇷 Didier Deschamps
🇦🇷 Marcelo Gallardo
🇦🇷 Ricardo Gareca
🇪🇸@PepTeam
🇩🇪 Jurgen Klopp
🇦🇷 Mauricio Pochettino
🇵🇹 Fernando Santos
🇳🇱 Erik ten Hag
🇧🇷 TiteVoting OPEN 👇https://t.co/NRJ9Nz40FC
— FIFA (@FIFAcom) July 31, 2019
Voting for the award will be taken from national team coaches and captains, in addition to fans and journalists. Click here to cast your vote for Klopp.
Klopp turned Liverpool into a force to be reckoned with; last season, in the Premier League, we suffered the least amount of losses – 1 – and that was at the hands of the eventual champions.
We may have went out of the domestic trophies early on, but I’m sure seeing Jordan Henderson lifting the Champions League trophy, decorated with red ribbons, above his head more than made up for that!