Klopp’s scheme of concept football has been inherited from legendary Volker Finke’s vision when the latter was the coach of Freiburg. The institutions of Life Kinetic - exercises in coordination and movement, was also a part of Klopp’s agenda, “It doesn’t look like it has anything to do with football, but it teaches you the connection between awareness and motion sequences, between brain and body.†Finke helped a lowly regarded team with limited quality resources to qualify for Bundesliga’s top tier and managed them to finish third in the next season with his version of concept football – a thoroughly drilled, collective movement at a high tempo. During that time Freiburg were known as Breisgau Brazilians for their wonderfully pleasing and technically superior style of football that saw them pass the ball both artfully and precisely. Finke used to say, “I don’t want team leaders. That’s a line of thinking that buries other players’ strengths. The only kind of discipline that the team needs is that the players use their heads and make decisions by themselves.

