German coach Jürgen Klopp, who is currently in charge of football at Red Bull after leaving Liverpool, compared the list of the four greatest coaches who shaped modern football to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. The top of this mountain features giant sculptures of the country's four founding fathers: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Klopp, despite his successful managerial career, excluded himself from the list and said: "These are the four coaches on Mount Rushmore. Choosing only four is very difficult, but I will try." Klopp selected two former Barcelona coaches and said: "The first is Johan Cruyff, the most influential coach I have ever heard of. No one surpasses him in his vision of football."
Klopp Names Four Greatest Coaches in Football History
German coach Jürgen Klopp, comparing the list of the greatest coaches to Mount Rushmore, named Johan Cruyff as the most influential coach he knows and admitted it was difficult to choose only four.