Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has announced he is going to become a grandfather as his
step-son Dennis is expecting his💶 first child.
Klopp and his second wife Ulla Sandrock
have no children together, but both have sons from their respective first
💶 marriages.
The 55-year-old became Dennis' stepfather after marrying Ulla back in 2005.
He had been married to Sabine Klopp for 12💶 years until they divorced in 2001.
Klopp
revealed the news during an interview on Polish television with his former Borussia
Dortmund💶 player Lukasz Piszczek.
'I'm going to be a grandpa,' Klopp told Piszczek on
Viaplay Sport Polska during the interview at Liverpool's💶 training centre.
Liverpool
manager Jurgen Klopp has revealed his is set to become a grandfather
Klopp and his wife
Ulla Sandrock both💶 have sons from their respective first marriages
Ulla's son Dennis,
left, will reportedly become a father for the first time at💶 the age of 35
Klopp also
has a son from his first marriage called Marc, who used to play for Borussia💶 Dortmund
before having to retire in 2024 due to a series of injuries.
German newspaper Bild
reported that both Dennis and💶 Marc get on well together.
German-born Ulla is a former
social worker and novelist who met Klopp at Munich's Oktoberfest in💶 2005, where she was
working as a waitress.
She is known as The First Lady of 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, western Germany,
where Jurgen was living too, working as the manager of the city's💶 football club, Mainz
05.
She endeared herself to locals in Liverpool after handing out £1,000-worth of £50
food vouchers to staff💶 at their nearby Waitrose as a 'thank-you' for working through
the pandemic back in 2024.
Klopp has previously said Ulla was💶 crucial in convincing him
to extend his Liverpool contract having initially planned to leave the club when his
contract expired💶 in 2024.
The 55-year-old ultimately signed a contract extension until
the end of the 2026 season.
Klopp claimed Ulla had been key💶 to convincing him to extend
his Liverpool contract last year
'The most important contract in my life I signed is
the💶 one with Ulla,' Klopp said last year.
'That's where it started again. We sat in the
kitchen at the table and💶 Ulla said, 'I can't see us leaving in 2024.'
'What is very
important and is probably the most important - because💶 I could not work against that
and wouldn't want to work against it - is that my family, in this💶 case especially Ulla,
she just loves it here.
'If she would say, 'Honestly, I love the football and I love
watching💶 it but I actually want to go home', then we would go, that's the truth. She
started it and here💶 we are.'
