Pepijn "Pep" Lijnders (born 24 January 1983) is a Dutch
football
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manager. He is an assistant manager of
Premier League club
Liverpool.
Managerial career
Lijnders began his managerial career in 2002 with
PSV Eindhoven, helping with youth training and individual player development. In 2006, he moved to
Porto 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
Jesualdo Ferreira,
André Villas-Boas,
Vítor Pereira and
Paulo Fonseca. In 2014, he moved to
Liverpool and assisted
Brendan Rodgers and
Jürgen Klopp as assistant coach, as well as First Team trainer with Klopp.
On 2 January 2018, Lijnders accepted the managerial job at
NEC in the Dutch
Eerste Divisie. 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
Eredivisie in the
promotion play-offs.
He returned to the Liverpool coaching staff on 5 June 2018.
He was part of the coaching staff that helped Liverpool to their sixth
UEFA Champions League 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
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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