The question was clear: whether the white club had ever been an option for him. Kloppfar from going into details, reacted with a laugh before avoiding the matter. “Now I answer this question and everything I have said until now disappears, it is cancelled,” the German joked. Afterwards, he left a short sentence, but full of intention: “It is José. It’s fine like this. So no comment.”
The reference, noted in the interview with the Portuguese coach Jose Mourinhohelped Klopp get through without fueling headlines about a possible link with the real Madrid. A trademark response: humor, waist and zero desire to open a door that, at least publicly, he prefers to keep closed.
Yes, he was much clearer when talking about Carlo Ancelotti and his adventure at the head of Brazil. Klopp did not spare his praise for the Italian coach, whom he considers the ideal profile to organize a team with plenty of talent, but in need of structure. “If I had been Brazilian and they had asked me about the perfect coach for the national team, I would have had no doubts: Carlo,” he said.
For KloppAncelotti’s hand can be decisive in a Brazil which, according to him, has “great potential”, but needs someone to really bring it out. “It lacks a little tactical discipline and there is no better person to make it better. Carlo is incredible, Brazilians are lucky,” explained the former coach of the Liverpool.
The German was also surprised by the general level of the World. He assures that he has found a more open competition, with small, daring teams and big teams forced to impose their hierarchy from the beginning. “I see a great will to prevail, to play, to score. There is no speculation,” he said. Kloppwhich still maintains its old claim: too much is played.
“For great players, in general, there is too much football,” he insisted. However, he acknowledged that the presence of 48 selections It also has an emotional component that is difficult to ignore. See countries like Curacao, Cape Verde either Haiti compete in a World He finds it “wonderful,” although he admits that it is not his ideal format.
About the hydration breaksanother of the tournament debates, Klopp He defended its usefulness in extreme conditions, but criticized its durability. “To drink you don’t need two and a half minutes“, he said, before adding another joke: at his age, those breaks also serve “to go to the bathroom.”
In sports, Klopp go to Germany as favorite for the title and highlights the growth of teams such as Norway and Japan. But his phrase about real Madrid was the one that left the juiciest headline: asked about the white bench, the German laughed, looked askance at the noise that the answer could cause and chose to dribble. How he did his Liverpool on the best days: fast, direct and without losing control.
