Jürgen Klopp: He stirs his buddy Boris Becker to tears

Nobody can separate good friends – this has now proven two heavyweights in their field. Boris Becker (57) received the “Legend” Award of the “Sport Bild” in Hamburg on Monday evening and had traveled to the presence of his pregnant wife Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro (35). Becker’s good friend Jürgen “Kloppo” Klopp (58) acted as an laudator, who, in his words, smoothly caused moist eyes during the former tennis professional.

“I owe my career to you,” said Klopp in the direction of the visibly moved award winner. Because it was only through its sensational Wimbledon victory in 1985 at the age of 17 that the almost the same age Klopp realized that you could do everything with enough hard work: “I wanted nothing more than you at the time. I was just as old. You showed myself that I didn’t have to wait until I was old enough.”

When Becker finally entered the stage, there was initially a warm hug for the laudator. “You came up with something, I didn’t expect that,” Becker explained his strong emotional reaction to what has been said. His compliment to Klopp followed: “If I were a footballer, I would have loved to play for you.”

In fact, the two combine an intimate friendship, which Becker’s stay in prison was also unable to harm in 2022. In his acceptance speech, Becker repeated again what he had revealed shortly after his early release: that Klopp wanted to visit him in prison in England, but was prohibited from concern for too much media hype from the authorities. At that time, Klopp was still a coach of FC Liverpool.

In a few months, Boris Becker will probably wrestle even more with the emotions. In December, the calculated date of birth of the first child together with his spouse Lilian is.