Liverpool is going to approach the Club World Cup for the first time and Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp feels that this title is like “landing on the moon”.
Being one of the most successful clubs in football history, Liverpool has never won a Club World Cup before and that’s probably why it’s so important to Klopp.
“I don’t know how you approach something that has never been done before – it is like landing on the moon,” Klopp told reporters.
“It means more to them [fans in South America] but to the players? No,” Klopp added of his team, who lead the Premier League. “Did it mean more to Tottenham in the Champions League final? More to Chelsea [in the Super Cup final]?
“When our boys play football they show every time they want to win. Is it an advantage the whole country or continent wants Flamengo to win it more? I don’t know. Mexico wanted to win it more than people in England and we beat their team, so we will see.
“For the players it is no problem. We spoke about it a few months ago and asked how did they want to play it? It wasn’t that they could decide but how do you see it? They said: ‘We go!’ Since then it’s never changed. The boys are 100 per cent clear. They didn’t need Ali [Alisson] telling them or Bobby [Firmino] telling them or Fabinho telling them about the importance. They are footballers, they are sportsmen and they want to win everything they can.
“It is how it sounds: the team world cup winner. You don’t often get the chance to do so and for most of them, with the countries they play for, they never have a chance to win a World Cup so this is the only chance. For me as well. But who cares about me? I don’t feel pressure but I feel a really big opportunity and I want to do it.”
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