Jurgen Klopp It didn’t take much to leave the first crack of the World Cup 2026. The German, Global Director of Football Red Bullwas in the Aztec Stadium in it Mexico-South Africa who opened the tournament and, from his new role as commentator for German television, he did not hide what he thought of the level of the match.
The former coach of Liverpool will be one of the great voices of the championship during the next 40 days in USA, Mexico and Canada. Its premiere came in the first match of a World Cup different from all the previous ones: 104 matches, three countries as headquarters for the first time and 48 selections distributed in 12 groups of four. The first two from each group and the eight best third parties pass, who enter the new round of sixteenths.
“Not even with a candidacy with Haaland, Klopp and Rodri have they knocked down Florentino”
Mexico He did his homework on Thursday night and won 2-0 to South Africa with goals from Quinones and Raul Jimenez. A victory that leaves him very well positioned to overcome the group stage. The game, yes, had more noise than football. The referee sent off three playerstwo South Africans and a Mexican, and the duel was broken up between interruptions, poorly read spaces and decisions that Klopp did not fully understand.
Klopp points to the board
Klopp He was especially hard with the management of the meeting. “This situation sums up the whole game to a certain extent. It was simply a bad tactics! Neither team played well. Eleven against nine and then they catch you counterattack. Because? Because the last line I was too late. That was a general problem throughout the game. South Africa He didn’t take advantage of it at all. It was not a first-class match,” he stated in the microphones of ZDF.
Christoph Kramerformer of the german team and companion of Klopp in the broadcast, he did not buy the premiere either. “You perceive a very intense atmosphereand I expected that intensity and that the spaces would expand. But I thought that then they would focus on the duels, and that wasn’t the case. It’s great that they play there, but it seemed more like a “charity party”said about the match that raised the curtain on World Cup 2026.
