3 Managers More Deserving Of Ballon D'or Then Pep Guardiola

By Chris Boyle /

3. Jurgen Klopp

Klopp has just guided a young Borussia Dortmund team to the top of their Champions League group in 2012, masterminding the defeat of Ballon D€™or nominee Jose Mourinho€™s Madrid team. Klopp joined Dortmund, in 2008 when the club was a shadow of its 1997 Champions League winners. He has since set about putting in place a revolution of the club incorporating a structure that gives the talented youth, which Germany has in abundance, a stage to play on. Klopp has lead Dortmund on a continual climb up the Bundasliga standings, playing exciting football, that ultimately resulted in the back-to-back Bundasliga titles beating Bayern Munich with nowhere near the spending power of the Munich club. When you compare the Dortmund team of 2011-12 to the dream team at Guardiola€™s disposal you see how big an oversight Klopp was. To do a domestic double with among others, Bayern Munich€™s world class team as a rival, far surpasses winning the domestic cup and the World Club as a title haul for a season. Jurgen Klopp€™s omission from the Coach of the year award must be questioned. It shows in UEFA€™s eyes that playing entertaining football and dominating the German League is not enough, but winning anything in Spain while using the best players in the world is.