‘I’m going to be a grandfather!’: Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp reveals he will become a GRANDPA at the age of 55 in an interview with his former Borussia Dortmund star Lukasz Piszczek on Polish TV
- Klopp revealed the news in an interview with his former player Lukasz Piszczek
- The Liverpool manager is the stepfather of his wife Ulla Sandrock’s son, Dennis.
- Klopp previously revealed that Ulla was key in getting him to extend his contract with Liverpool.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has announced that he will become a grandfather.
Klopp revealed the news during an interview on Polish television with his former Borussia Dortmund player Lukasz Piszczek.
“I’m going to be a grandfather,” Klopp told Piszczek in Viaplay Sport Poland during the interview at the Liverpool training center.
Klopp and his wife Ulla Sandrock do not have children together, but both have children from their respective first marriages.
Jurgen became Dennis’s stepfather, while Ulla is the stepmother of Jurgen’s son from a previous marriage, Marc.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has revealed that he will become his grandfather.
Klopp and his wife Ulla Sandrock have children from their respective first marriages.
Ulla’s son Dennis, left, will become a father for the first time at the age of 35.
Ulla’s son Dennis is set to become a father.
German newspaper Bild reported that both Dennis and Klopp’s son Marc get along well.
German-born Ulla is a former social worker and novelist who met Klopp at the Munich Oktoberfest in 2005, where she was working as a waitress.
Known as The First Lady of the Bundesliga in her home country due to her charity work in both Germany and Kenya.
Ulla worked as a teacher and hospital worker in Nairobi for three years, before settling in Mainz in western Germany, where Jurgen also lived, working as manager of the city’s soccer club, Mainz 05.
He endeared himself to locals in Liverpool after handing out £50 meal vouchers worth £1,000 to staff at his nearby Waitrose as a “thank you” for working through the pandemic in 2020.
Klopp has previously said that Ulla was crucial in convincing him to extend his contract with Liverpool, as he initially planned to leave the club when his contract expired in 2024.
The 55-year-old finally signed a contract extension until the end of the 2026 season.
Klopp claimed that Ulla had been key in convincing him to extend his contract with Liverpool last year.
“The most important contract of my life that I signed is that of Ulla,” Klopp said last year.
That’s where it started again. We sat at the table in the kitchen and Ulla said: ‘I don’t see us leaving in 2024.’
“What’s very important and probably most important, because I couldn’t oppose that and I wouldn’t want to, is that my family, in this case especially Ulla, loves it here.”
“If she said, ‘Honestly, I love football and I love watching it, but I really want to go home,’ then we would go, that’s the truth.” She started it and here we are.