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LONDON. — Jurgen Klopp is explaining in his unique way the difference between his Borussia Dortmund side and Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal. “He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger. He is ‘hello (making a handshake gesture)’. I’m this guy,” Klopp continues as he high-fives the air.
“But he likes having the ball, playing football, passes . . . it’s like an orchestra,” he adds, gesturing as if playing a violin, “but it is a silent song. I like heavy metal more. I always want it loud.
“I like (Arsenal’s philosophy). I love it but I cannot coach it because I am a different guy. If you watch me during the game I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.
“To enjoy football you have to do this,” pointing left-right, right-left, “he can win, he can win, post, goalkeeper, save — that is what I love. If, in the last four years, Barcelona were the first team I saw playing when I was four years of age — this serenity of football, they win 5-0, 6-0 — I would have played tennis.
“It is not my sport. I don’t like winning with 80 percent (of possession). Sorry that is not enough for me. Fighting football, not serenity football, that is what I like. What we call in German ‘English’ — rainy day, heavy pitch, 5-5, everybody is dirty in the face and goes home and cannot play for the next four weeks.”
Klopp is all-action, full of passion and energy, and the football his Dortmund side play reflects that. The key is a belief in hard work. “I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have,” he says.
“I fight for justice. It’s a very important point for me. You give all . . . there’s no guarantee that you get all but if you give all maybe you can get something. “If you don’t have to give all to win and you still win, what’s this? It’s like this (he yawns).
It’s only interesting for people if it’s close — and at the level we play against Bayern and Arsenal and all these other teams it always is. And if it’s close, how do you make the difference? You cannot make the difference because you have the better ideas or a genius moment. — Mailonline.
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