Former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp will be visiting his other favourite club in Cape Town next month.
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While Liverpool supporters in Cape Town are enjoying their time in the sun, with their team in pole position to win three trophies this season, their season is about to get even better.
The Premier League club’s beloved former manager Jurgen Klopp will be in the Mother City next month to attend the 10th anniversary of the Hout Bay United Football Community Trust, where he will be the special guest.
Klopp has been a patron of Hout Bay United FC, a small football club that services the impoverished communities in an area, where there is a great divide between the rich and the poor.
About 10 years ago the club started out with informal football games in the vicinity of the harbour to try and give kids an alternative source of distraction. But the club now boasts over 15 men’s and women’s teams, with the senior players helping with the coaching and mentoring of the age-group teams.
Klopp linked up with Hout Bay United in 2017 and has helped to generate a lot of money for the non-profit organisation, which has According to reports Klopp has helped raise almost R2 million for the club, and in 2019 donated over about R200,000 of his own money to the Joy is Round initiative run by the Hout Bay United Football Community Trust.
Klopp will be the special guest at the event and will have a Q&A session with local broadcaster Sizwe Mbebe, which will include a lot of locker room banter.
The event will be held at The Bay Harbour Market in Hout Bay, 31 Harbour Road on March 6. The price of a ticket starts at R2,000 and can be bought on Quicket.
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