Jürgen Klopp has become the latest high-profile person to join Common Goal, the organisation that is encouraging players, managers and football clubs to give 1% of their income to change the lives of disadvantaged young people all over the world.
Megan Rapinoe, Mats Hummels, Juan Mata, Giorgio Chiellini and Alex Morgan are members of Common Goal while the Danish Superliga side Nordsjælland recently became the first club to join.
Klopp, speaking as he was collecting the Best Fifa men’s coach award in Milan, said: “The past was great, the present is really good and the future hopefully will be good for us as well. But there are people out there that are not exactly in the same situation. I am really proud and happy to announce that from today on I am member of the Common Goal family.”
He added: “Liverpool’s Champions League win was achieved on the back of exceptional team spirit among the staff and players and it is only by working together that we can accomplish truly meaningful things in football and in life.”
The RB Leipzig head coach, Julian Nagelsmann, 32, who became the first manager to join Common Goal in October 2017, said: “Klopp, with his incredible achievements in the Bundesliga and the Premier League, as well as the way fans beyond his own club hold him in such high esteem, will have a tremendous impact on raising awareness of the movement and inspiring other football managers and top-level players to follow suit.”
Common Goal’s long-term vision is to unlock 1% of the football industry’s revenues – estimated at €50bn per year – for grassroots football NGOs that use the game to empower disadvantaged young people and their communities.
Klopp said: “As a team, even with a minimum pledge of just 1%, together the football industry is capable of transforming the world. Now is the time for those interested to take a step forward.”
Click here to join Common Goal, which is open for everyone.
