Pakistan, July 25 -- Germany has hired Jurgen Klopp to coach its national team, giving the ex-Liverpool manager a daunting task to turn around the fortunes of a squad which failed yet again at the World Cup.

Klopp signed a contract to coach Germany through to the 2030 World Cup, the German soccer federation said as he was presented at a news conference Friday.

"It's a big honor to be sitting here," Klopp said. "I had an idea how big the job of national team coach is, but when you're being directly connected with it, you really feel the scale and the responsibility even more."

He replaces Julian Nagelsmann, who quit after Germany's loss to Paraguay meant it failed to reach the last 16 of a men's World Cup for the third time in a row.

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