POWER COUPLE Who is Jurgen Klopp’s wife? Ulla Sandrock, a children’s novelist known as
‘first Lady of Bundesliga’
THEY say that behind every great man lies a great woman -
and Jurgen Klopp has revealed that his wife wanting to stay in Liverpool was a big
reason behind his longevity at the club.
The Reds boss has always kept his family life
relatively private, with his current wife thought to have moved in with him after just
THREE days of dating.
4 Klopp and his wife Ulla have been together since 2005 Credit:
Manchester Evening News
Here's everything to know about the woman behind the Liverpool
manager who is looking to lead the Reds to English football's first ever cup
treble.
Who is Jurgen Klopp's wife?
Klopp's wife Ulla Sandrock has been in a
relationship with the Liverpool manager since December 2005.
The couple met whilst
Sandrock was working as a bar waitress during the Munich Oktoberfest.
She is a
children's novelist who published her first book - 'Tom and the Magic Football' - which
is about a magic football that leads an 11-year-old boy to become an amazing
footballer.
4 Ulla Sandrock is a published children's author Credit: FEDERICO
GAMBARINI/AFP via Getty Images
4 Ulla (right) at the 2024 Champions League final
Credit: Getty
The book was published in 2008, with a sequel following in in 2010.
She
used to be a teacher in Kenya, teaching local kids there.
Why was she dubbed the 'First
Lady of Bundesliga'?
Klopp's kind-hearted wife was dubbed 'the First lady', due to her
charitable actions and Jurgen Klopp's status whilst he was working in Germany.
She also
worked as a nurse whilst in Nairobi and helped starving children recover whilst
there.
Ms Sandrock also made headlines in April this year when she handed out £1,000
food vouchers to supermarket staff at a Waitrose branch in Formby, close to their
family home.
4 The sequel cover of 'Tom and the Magic Football'
Liverpool's manager has
always been full of praise for his wife with both of them having children from previous
marriages when they got together.
He's talked about her books publicly saying: "It's
like Harry Potter but about football. There’s no flying on his f****** stick."
Sandrock
was more graceful when she told the press that the book illustrated the "fascination of
football" and "the longing for a distant hero world".
