"This insider’s account of Liverpool FC’s 2021/22 season takes readers on an exhilarating journey through pre-season prep, passionate team-talks, dressing-room discussions, and match-winning tactics."
With a gripping week-by-week structure that leads readers through the 2021-22 season, in Intensity: Inside Liverpool FC assistant manager Pep Lijnders offers football supporters unique insights into the workings of a top club, with plenty of that intensity he declares to be at the core of Liverpool’s identity.
According to Jürgen Klopp in the foreword, one of Lijnders’ “key characteristics is that he wants to share his joy and passion for football with everyone. He’s never a snob or judgemental”, and football is “about community and engagement…It’s about making strangers into friends. Individuals into a collective”, and this joy, passion and sense of collectivism is threaded through the book.
The book kicks off with accounts of pre-season friendlies at Anfield after the squad’s high-intensity summer training camps in Austria and France. As readers are taken through the season, the level of detail is immense, with all the intricacies of set-ups and tactics exhaustively related alongside insights into players, staff and the club’s ethos. Lively and personable, this must-read for LFC supporters will also appeal to lovers of the beautiful game more generally.
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“OUR IDENTITY IS INTENSITY,” declares Liverpool FC assistant-manager Pep Lijnders in this compelling account of the 2021/22 season, and from the very first chapter he takes us on a footballing thrill-ride we will never forget.
Liverpool’s blistering brand of football has revived a sleeping giant, energised its vast army of fans, entertained crowds at home and all over the world, and redefined coaching excellence.
Now Pep tells the inside story of a season which, even by LFC standards, has been truly sensational.
Week by week as the drama unfolds it’s all here: from pre-season to unforgettable finale; great goals and gruelling schedules; passionate team-talks and personal reflections; unsung heroes and Kop idols; the pride and the passion, the joy and the heartache... and the fun.
In his own engaging and inspiring style, Pep takes readers behind-the-scenes at Anfield, the AXA Training Centre and the team hotel; on the pitch, in the dugout and back in the dressing-room away from the media glare.
In forming a ‘one-club’ mentality, Jürgen Klopp, Lijnders and co have also created countless modern memories for the LFC family, and this unique book chronicles their legacy.
It’s an unprecedented account of a season at an elite football club from one of the game’s most thoughtful students.
Intensity Inside Liverpool FC features in the following genres: Sports, Association football (Soccer), Sports training and coaching, Sport: general, Ball sports / ball games, Football variants and related games
Intensity Inside Liverpool FC is available in Hardback
Intensity Inside Liverpool FC was written by Pep Lijnders, James Carroll and published by Reach Sport an imprint of Reach plc
