Fifa Prize The Best: Jürgen Klopp Coach of the Year.

Milan (AFP)

Liverpool's German coach Jürgen Klopp received the Fifa The Best Men's Coach of the Year award on Monday in Milan.

Klopp, who won the Champions League with the Reds last spring, was preferred to Mauricio Pochettino, an unfortunate C1 finalist with Tottenham, and Pep Guardiola (Manchester City).

"I have to thank my incredible Liverpool club, and those who do not like it do not have a heart," said the German.

"Nobody would have imagined that I was there 20 years ago, 10 years, five years, even four years.What's that Mauricio, I'm here and not you because we won this game. is like that, "he added.

Last year, the prize was won by Didier Deschamps, coach of the French team world champion.

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