Former Liverpool Coach Jürgen Klopp Applauds Willi Orbán’s Legacy at RB Leipzig

Hungary Today 2024.10.31.

Willi Orbán (L) and Dženis Burnić of Bosnia during the match between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Hungary in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on October 14, 2024.

At the beginning of October, it became official that Dominik Szoboszlai’s former coach, Jürgen Klopp, will continue to work as Red Bull’s global head of football from January, and will thus also become the boss of RB Leipzig’s Péter Gulácsi and Willi Orbán. In a recent statement, the German manager spoke highly of Willi Orbán, writes Magyar Nemzet.

The former Liverpool head coach will take up an advisory position supporting clubs including RB Leipzig, Red Bull Salzburg, and New York Red Bulls as the new global head of football at The Red Bull Group from January 2025.

Jurgen Klopp has been explaining his decision to join Red Bull as their new Head of Global Football. #BBCFootball pic.twitter.com/Tbg9YtuYUI

— Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) October 30, 2024

“I was always sure that I would not spend my days doing nothing. To be honest, it is an incredible opportunity for me, I do not know what I could have done that would have been good for everyone,” he noted recently.

Klopp has been criticized by many after his move to Red Bull. In recent weeks, several football lovers have accused the energy drink company of using his money to promote its product through teams. “I see it differently,” Klopp emphasized, who also praised Willi Orbán.

When we (Liverpool FC) played against Leipzig in the Champions League, they did not have any players that other clubs could not buy, and they also have real club legends in Willi Orbán, Kevin Kampl, and Yussuf Poulsen.”

Klopp was Liverpool’s head coach from 2015 to 2024, and managed the team in 489 matches, including winning the English league (Premier League) title in 2019, and the UEFA Champions League in 2020.

Fact

Willi Orbán is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga. Born in Germany, he plays for the Hungarian national team. He was brought up in FC Kaiserslautern, where he was promoted to the senior squad through the youth teams, from where he transferred to RB Leipzig in the summer of 2015. Because of his Hungarian origins, his name was mentioned several times as a member of the Hungarian national football team, and Bernd Storck and Georges Leekens approached him, but he finally accepted Marco Rossi’s call in 2018. His current market value is EUR 10 million.

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Via Magyar Nemzet; Featured image via MTI/Illyés Tibor