Pepijn "Pep" Lijnders (born 24 January 1983) is a Dutch

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. He is an assistant manager of

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club

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Managerial career

Lijnders began his managerial career in 2002 with

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, helping with youth training and individual player development. In 2006, he moved to

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and helped develop their youth academy, working under guidance of Vítor Frade and Luís Castro and implementing the Tactical Periodisation ideas on the 61
project
During his time in the club he worked under

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, Vítor Pereira and

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. In 2014, he moved to

and assisted

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and

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as assistant coach, as well as First Team trainer with Klopp. On 2 January 2018, Lijnders accepted the managerial job at

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in the Dutch

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. He signed a contract of one year and a half. On 17 May 2018, Lijnders was sacked after NEC failed to gain promotion to the

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in the

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. He returned to the Liverpool coaching staff on 5 June 2018. He was part of the coaching staff that helped Liverpool to their sixth

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win on 1 June 2019 and their 19th league title win in the 2019–20 season.

References

External links

Liverpool ProfileNEC Nijmegen ProfileSport.de Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lijnders, Pepijn 1983 births Living people People from Horst aan de Maas Association football coaches Dutch football managers Eerste Divisie managers NEC Nijmegen managers Liverpool F.C. non-playing staff PSV Eindhoven non-playing staff Sportspeople from Limburg (Netherlands) FC Porto non-playing staff Dutch expatriate sportspeople in England Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Portugal