Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp questions logic of Qatar as World Cup hosts

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‘The situation makes you ANGRY!’: Jurgen Klopp hammers on World Cup, claims FIFA treated lack of infrastructure ‘like Aladdin with a magic lamp’ before complaining of ‘disastrous’ injuries to players

  • Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp not interested in watching Qatar World Cup
  • During the group stage, the German coach goes on vacation to relax
  • Klopp has been left cold by the various problems surrounding the tournament
  • He doesn’t want players and managers to be bombarded with questions about politics

Jurgen Klopp has admitted he has little appetite to watch the World Cup after being left cold by the tournament’s timing and the issues surrounding it.

The Liverpool manager plans to take a holiday while the group stage is played in Qatar and will spend the rest of the time at a warm weather training camp in Dubai with his club’s players not involved.

Klopp was initially hesitant to talk about the World Cup on Friday, but he couldn’t keep his mouth shut, initially making it clear that players and managers from the 32 countries shouldn’t face a barrage of questions about politics when they get there. are for football.

There was no doubt about his ambivalence for the tournament in general, and his feelings around it have intensified after he revisited a program about the circumstances in which Qatar was given the right to host the 2010 World Cup.

“I’ll watch the games, but it’s different,” Klopp said. “I saw an old documentary about the whole situation, when it became known that Russia and Qatar are the places for the next World Cups. I think it was the first time in history that they announced two at once.

“We all know how it happened and that we can still make it happen, without legal action afterwards, has led to a real… what can I say? Now it’s open, now everyone knows it, yet it was hidden and you think, “How can all this be?” It was 12 years ago. It has nothing to do with Qatar.

Jurgen Klopp couldn't keep his mouth shut on Friday when he was questioned at the World Cup in Qatar

Jurgen Klopp couldn’t keep his mouth shut on Friday when he was questioned at the World Cup in Qatar

Klopp compared the decision to award Qatar as Aladdin making wishes with his 'miracle lamp', given their lack of infrastructure, to stadiums and hotels rushing through for the tournament

Klopp compared the decision to award Qatar as Aladdin making wishes with his ‘miracle lamp’, given their lack of infrastructure, to stadiums and hotels rushing through for the tournament

“They won the World Cup and now it’s here. But the moment you put it there, all the things that followed were clear. And the people involved at the time should have known.

Klopp added: “Later we will talk about human rights in terms of the people who have to work there in conditions that are, to put it nicely, difficult.

“We couldn’t play the World Cup there in the summer because of the temperature and there was not one stadium in Qatar, or maybe even one. So you have to build stadiums.

‘I don’t think anyone thought of that that day, that someone should build them. It’s not like Aladdin with his “wonder lamp” and “Boom! There’s a new stadium!”

Klopp has been stunned and has revealed he has little interest in watching the World Cup this winter

Klopp has been stunned and has revealed he has little interest in watching the World Cup this winter

“The situation makes you angry. How can it not?’ The issue of player welfare is also something that has infuriated Klopp, with a growing number of big names dropping out in the run-up.

Klopp said: ‘I hate this subject. These problems were so obvious – so obvious! — and no one mentioned it until three weeks before the World Cup. Nobody cares about us (football managers and players) and how we feel.

“The players who get injured and can’t play, it’s a disaster. But how can we change that now?’

He added: “Don’t constantly put Gareth Southgate in a situation where he has to talk about everything. He has an opinion, but he’s not a politician, I’m not a politician, he’s a manager of England, so let him do that.

“If you want to write about something else, do it yourself, but without asking us, so it’s ‘Klopp said’ or ‘Southgate said’. As if that would change anything.’

The Liverpool boss also does not want figures like England manager Gareth Southgate and senior players to be put in situations where they are bombarded with political questions

The Liverpool boss also does not want figures like England manager Gareth Southgate and senior players to be put in situations where they are bombarded with political questions