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Okocha’s Goal Most Spectacular In The History Of German Football — Klopp

By Daily Sports on June 1, 2020

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has picked Jay-Jay Okocha’s sizzling goal against Oliver Kahn as the most spectacular in the history of German football.

The 46-year-old Nigerian legend scored the goal when he played for Eintracht Frankfurt against Karlsruher during the 1992/1993 Bundesliga season.

The midfielder dribbled past a number of his markers, leaving them to dive on the floor, before calmly slotting home his strike effortlessly past Kahn.

The wondergoal was voted as Goal of the Season by many football magazines and a popular German TV sports programme Sportschau.

“He [Okocha] scored the most spectacular goal in the history of German football. It took like five minutes of Kahn and his defenders diving on the floor before he put the ball in the net," Klopp told the Guardian.

“Some of the world’s best players have been from Africa; George Weah, Didier Drogba and Yaya Toure. In their generation they were some of the best players so why should we not sign them? It’s great.”

Klopp currently has three African players under him, Egypt’s Mohamed Salah, Senegal’s Sadio Mane and Guinea’s Naby Keita, and they have been key to the success of Liverpool in the recent past.

Mane and Salah’s goals propelled the Reds to clinch the Champions League last season and their efforts have been instrumental to their current top position on the Premier League table.

Klopp, whose wife lived in Kenya for three years, explained there is a mentality that motivates Africans to do well, citing the case of Salah, who drives more than four hours to training every day.

“In Europe, it’s difficult to find that [special story] – maybe in London it’s possible, I’m not too sure. But all the African players have this story. It means they are motivated through the roof. It’s about the story that is behind them,” he continued.

“If you look at Sadio Mane – running away from home. Mo Salah: driving four and a half hours every day to training. You have these stories there.

“You don’t have these stories here. I read an article about the influence of Mo Salah at this moment in the Arabic world – it’s unbelievable!”

Klopp revealed he loves to sign African players but admitted managers are often left frustrated when they depart for the Africa Cup of Nations. (Goal)

•PHOTO: Jay Jay Okocha

Source Daily Sports

Posted June 1, 2020