In the new year, Edin Terzic led BVB back into the title race in the Bundesliga, so the hype surrounding the coach is correspondingly high. Sports director Sebastian Kehl and consultant Matthias Sammer find the comparisons between the current head coach and Borussia Dortmund’s champion Jürgen Klopp “unfair”.
On the sidelines of the Champions League game at Chelsea on Tuesday evening, Sebastian Kehl gave a detailed assessment.
“In the past, so many coaches were compared to Jürgen Klopp. Edin goes his own way, Edin does it excellently. You might find parallels in one place or another. Every coach has his own idiosyncrasies, every team has their own idiosyncrasies,” emphasized the 43-year-old on “Amazon Prime Video”.
In general, the current team is “certainly more challenging than the team that Jürgen Klopp took over in 2008,” added Kehl.
BVB: Parallels between Terzic and Klopp? “Both are good leaders”
Sammer saw it similarly. “First of all, everyone forgot that it took Jürgen three years,” explained the 1996 European champion: “What unites them both: Both are good leaders, analysts and pragmatists.”
Klopp took over BVB in 2008 and three years later led to the championship, one year later the double. He finally left the club in the summer of 2015.
Terzic has been head coach since the start of the season and is second in the table with Dortmund – tied on points with FC Bayern. Since the beginning of the year, the Westphalians have won every match in the league.
Next weekend, BVB will go to the Revierderby at arch-rivals FC Schalke 04, who are also in good form and have started a race to catch up in the bottom of the table. The Black and Yellows won the first leg 1-0 at Signal Iduna Park.