German Jurgen Klopp, former Liverpool coach and director of football operations at the Red Ball Group, considered that the Club World Cup in its new form is “the worst idea implemented in football history.”
“In the end, everything revolves around the matches and not the surrounding aspects, and for this reason the Club World Cup is the worst idea implemented in football in this regard.”
The former Borussia Dortmund coach touched on the crowded matches and short time available to develop the players, saying, “People who have never had to do with daily work, or no longer have anything to do with it, they are the ones who create such matters.”
Speaking, specifically about the burden of work that the players bear, Klopp said, “Last year, we had Copa America and the European Cup, and this year the Club World Cup, and the next year the World Cup” for the teams “.
“This does not give the players who participate in these championships any real period of recovery, neither physically nor mentally. The American Basketball League player” NPA “who also receives a great salary, gets a four -month leave every year. This leave is all that he obtained (Liverpool defender) Virgil van Dyck throughout his career.”
The Austrian Salzburg involved under the Red Ball Group, in the new World Cup hosted by the United States, but was bid farewell to the group stage after a victory over the Mexican Pachuca, tied with the Saudi Crescent and a loss against Real Madrid.
The Club World Cup competition was launched with the participation of 32 clubs on June 14 and concluded on July 13, while the new seasons of major leagues start very soon.
The first stage of the English Premier League begins on August 15, the Spanish and French League on August 17, the German League in 22, and the Italian League on the 23rd of the same month.
Prior to the start of the World Cup clubs, Vivarro, the global body represented by the unions of the players, called for a mandatory holiday of no less than four weeks at the end of the season, to protect the players from the pressure of excess matches and reduce the crowding of the football schedule.
