Jürgen Klopp's longtime Liverpool assistant Pep Lijnders hired to coach Salzburg
SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — Jürgen Klopp’s longtime assistant Pep Lijnders will coach Austria’s biggest club Salzburg next season as their era at Liverpool comes to an end.
Salzburg said Wednesday it hired the 41-year-old Lijnders on a three-year contract.
It means Lijnders should take Salzburg to the revamped Club World Cup in June 2025 which Liverpool will miss.
Salzburg is among 12 European teams in the 32-team tournament lineup in the United States next year. Though Liverpool is ranked higher than Salzburg based on recent Champions League results, Klopp’s team did not qualify by that route because England’s quota of two places was taken by recent title winners Chelsea and Manchester City.
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.
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