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BERLIN, May 8-- Head coach Juergen Klopp led Liverpool to a 4-0 crush of Barcelona and to the Champions League final, but a disappointing record in the finals for Klopp as a football coach offers no help. The 51-year-old coach lost all of his latest six finals -- the Champions League defeat in 2013 against Bayern Munich (2-1) at Wembley as Dortmund coach followed by the crash in 2017 and 2017 in the German Cup finals against Bayern and the VfL Wolfsburg (2-0/3-1). In 2016 he lost the English FA Cup final against Manchester City (4-2 on penalties) followed by the Euro League final in 2016 (3-1 to FC Sevilla) and in 2018 the Champions League final against Real Madrid (3-1). He won only one, the 2017 German Cup final (5-2 against Bayern Munich). The former Borussia Dortmund coach, who still claims "to be the normal one", is of course far from ordinary. Despite preponderantly losing finals, he might be the best motivator among all existing coaches. He praised his players as mentality monsters after crushing Barcelona, but he seems nothing less than a mentality giant himself. The Liverpool coach reached a final for the eighth time after an epic victory over Barcelona and super star Lionel Messi. Things could finally change to good for Klopp on June 1 in Madrid when the 2019 Champions League final is played. Klopp is looking at his assumed final-curse with humour and amusement. "If God needs to prove that someone having lost six finals is not tired trying a seventh time, I might be the perfect person to do it," he said. | 
