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 Dor nominee Jose Mourinhos 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 Guardiolas disposal you see how big an oversight Klopp was. To do a domestic double with among others, Bayern Munichs world class team as a rival, far surpasses winning the domestic cup and the World Club as a title haul for a season. Jurgen Klopps omission from the Coach of the year award must be questioned. It shows in UEFAs 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.