Pepijn Lijnders
Pepijn "Pep" Lijnders is a Dutch football 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 Vítor Baía and André Villas-Boas. In 2014, he moved to Liverpool and assisted Brendan Rodgers and Jürgen Klopp as assistant coach, as well as first field 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 the 1 June 2019 and the Premier League in 2019-20.
