Klopp made Liverpool gamers meet Olympic super-athlete in pre-season prep

Pre-season preparations are completely different for each group. Eddie Howe made headlines final yr after sending his Newcastle squad on a weird sheep-herding group bonding session following a pre-season pleasant in opposition to non-league outfit Bath City.

Meanwhile, Arsenal gamers have been pictured driving curler coasters at Universal Studios in Orlando. Others merely keep on with tactical conferences and coaching classes.

But for Liverpool, their summer season included a serving to hand from one of many best triathletes of all time the previous chief government of a world promoting company. Jan Frodeno, an Olympic gold medallist in Beijing and a three-time winner of the Ironman World Championship, addressed Jurgen Klopp’s males on the Hotel Oschberghof within the city of Donaueschingen, Germany.

Frodeno was invited to discuss his glistening profession and the psychological fortitude it took for him to stay on the prime of his sport for therefore lengthy.

Ahead of Liverpool’s 2019/2020 Premier League successful marketing campaign German surfer Sebastian Steudtner was introduced in to do the identical whereas the squad have been out in France making ready for the upcoming season.

Later this summer season, Liverpool got a chat by one other visitor speaker, British businessman Kevin Roberts, beforehand the long-serving CEO of promoting company Saatchi & Saatchi, who’s now heading up advertising and marketing and management consultancy Red Rose Consulting.

Roberts has labored with England’s cricket group and New Zealand’s rugby union facet previously to assist encourage their “full potential” via numerous workshops.

An analogous workshop was held on the on the Kirkby Training Centre the place Roberts explored how they might create the very best setting and guarantee the entire members of the squad really feel equally valued by their backroom workers.