Former coach from Liverpool, Jurgen Klopp (58 years old), said his opinion about the 32-team football tournament, the World Cup, which takes place these days in the US. And he had no pleasant words to those who set up the competition, one that does not allow the players to have a vacation.
Jurgen Klopp does not keep telling things by name
With the sincerity that never lacks, Jurgen Klopp, withdrawn from football because of mental exhaustion, rejects the World Club Championship, which takes place in the United States. Former coach of Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool, now coordinator of clubs that are part of Red Bull galaxy (one of the teams, RB Salzburg, has participated in the US competition), the FIFA event contests.
“I’m afraid of a wave of injuries unheard of so far. They expect from them to play each match as if it were a final, 70 or 75 times a year. We can’t continue that way. Without breaks, even the product loses its value. In my entire career, I had a training of only two and a half weeks, with the entire team available once. Then I played every three days, for a whole year. It’s inhuman“Said Klopp.
Klopp is not the first to negatively judge the extension of a season already exhausting and very stressful for players involved in the internal championships and in the Champions League. But the problem is also moved to another meal: do they prefer clubs to collect millions of euros, risking endangering their players’ careers or are they satisfied with what comes from television rights and their own marketing through the championships and the Champions League?
Comparison with NBA
To play so many matches in a season, very large lots are needed and this inevitably leads to an increase in the salary fund. Klopp argues: “I understand that for some clubs, money is many, but they are not the same for everyone. Players no longer have time to recover, neither physically nor mental. Last year were Copa America and the European Championship, this year the World Club Championship, and next year the World Championship. When should he rest? A NBA player earns a lot and rests four months a year. Virgil Van Dijk never had a break like that, nor those wages”.
Klopp widens the discussion and launches a frontal attack on President FIFA, Gianni Infantino, and the people next to him. “There are people who have never had anything to do with the daily affairs of our sport and who now come up with ideas and I don’t think it is right“Although in Infantino’s near was seen a character of the French size Arsene Wenger (75 years old), former manager at Arsenal London.
A few days ago, Brazilian Raphinha, from Barcelona, told her satisfaction that she does not participate in the World Club Championship, because, although everyone likes to win trophies, it is increasingly obvious that the human body, even if it is super-enthusiastic, has its limits.
