Are you one of those who catch the Club World Cup minute by minute and love it? Then we recommend that you click on the next Sporten.com article instead. This is no tribute to the amazing new format of FIFA. Jürgen Klopp has taken the microphone.
Ståle Solbakken called it the “coconut cup”, the legendary Liverpool manager indirectly calls it the same. As Global Head of Soccer, Klopp also takes his point of departure in the clubs and what awaits them before and at the start of the season.
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“The Club World Cup is the worst idea that has ever been implemented in football. People who have never had anything to do with day-to-day operations come up with ideas. I fear that next season the players will be injured they have never had before. If not, it will happen in the World Cup or later,” he says in an interview with Welt am Sonntag.
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