🎾 German champion under Klopp: Ex-Bundesliga star elite in another sport!

🎾 German champion under Klopp: Ex-Bundesliga star elite in another sport!Moritz Leitner has not been an active professional footballer for four years now. After leaving FC Zurich, the midfielder hung up his boots at just 29. But that does not mean Leitner simply put his feet up afterwards.

>Quite the opposite: the now 33-year-old devoted himself entirely to padel. The increasingly popular sport seems to be right up his street—and he appears to have quite a knack for it, too.

>Leitner is now ranked 32nd in Germany's padel rankings. He recently spelled out his ambition to 'Sport Bild': "I want to turn professional in padel, too."

>His tremendous work ethic should help him get there. "I don't think there's a more padel-mad monkey out there than me—with my attitude and my passion for the sport," Leitner said. "Of course, I come from football and don't have the tennis background that most other players have. But I absolutely love it and give a thousand percent every day."

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>Another thing in his favour: Leitner knows exactly how to succeed in sport. As a youngster, he won the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal with Borussia Dortmund in 2012. A year later, Jürgen Klopp's young guns also made it all the way to the Champions League final.

>Let's see whether Leitner can reach similar heights in padel...

>This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.