{"id":167612,"date":"2025-06-29T18:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T17:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/klopp-criticizes-fifa-club-world-cup-organizers"},"modified":"2025-06-29T19:48:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T18:48:43","slug":"klopp-criticizes-fifa-club-world-cup-organizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/klopp-criticizes-fifa-club-world-cup-organizers","title":{"rendered":"Klopp Criticizes FIFA Club World Cup Organizers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Liverpool head coach, Jurgen Klopp has blasted the organizers of the recently reformed FIFA Club World Cup competition.<\/p>\n<p>The German labelled the competition as the worst idea ever implemented in the history of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, FIFA revamped the tournament to include 32 teams.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with German outlet Welt, Klopp said (via talkSPORT): \u201cThe Club World Cup is the worst idea ever implemented in football in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who\u2019ve never had anything to do with day-to-day business are coming up with ideas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand those who say, but there are insane sums of money for participation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that isn\u2019t for every club. Last year it was the Copa America and the Euro, this year the Club World Cup, and next year the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means no real recovery for the players involved, neither physically nor mentally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA player in the NBA who also earns a lot of money has 4 months off every year. Van Dijk [Liverpool captain] hasn\u2019t even had that in his entire career. I don\u2019t wish it on anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Klopp himself won the competition once with Liverpool during in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Liverpool head coach, Jurgen Klopp has blasted the organizers of the recently reformed FIFA Club World Cup competition. The German labelled the competition as the worst idea ever implemented in the history of the sport. Earlier this year, FIFA revamped the tournament to include 32 teams. Speaking with German outlet Welt, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":167611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[2990,4957,254],"class_list":["post-167612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-fifa-club-world-cup","tag-klopp","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Klopp Criticizes FIFA Club World Cup Organizers - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Liverpool head coach, Jurgen Klopp has blasted the organizers of the recently reformed FIFA Club World Cup compet ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/klopp-criticizes-fifa-club-world-cup-organizers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Klopp Criticizes FIFA Club World Cup Organizers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Liverpool head coach, Jurgen Klopp has blasted the organizers of the recently reformed FIFA Club World Cup compet ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/klopp-criticizes-fifa-club-world-cup-organizers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-29T17:40:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-29T18:48:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1751210407.228914.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/klopp-criticizes-fifa-club-world-cup-organizers#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/klopp-criticizes-fifa-club-world-cup-organizers\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Klopp Criticizes FIFA Club World Cup Organizers\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-29T17:40:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-29T18:48:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/klopp-criticizes-fifa-club-world-cup-organizers\"},\"wordCount\":208,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/klopp-criticizes-fifa-club-world-cup-organizers#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1751210407.228914.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"FIFA Club World Cup\",\"klopp\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/klopp-criticizes-fifa-club-world-cup-organizers#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/klopp-criticizes-fifa-club-world-cup-organizers\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/klopp-criticizes-fifa-club-world-cup-organizers\",\"name\":\"Klopp Criticizes FIFA Club World Cup Organizers - 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