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Jurgen Klopp has warned that soccer could lose its value and appeal due to the increasing schedule, adding that the newly expanded Club World Cup is the “worst idea ever implemented” in the sport.

The former Liverpool manager, who took up a new role as Red Bull’s Head of Global Soccer at the start of the year, has been a vocal critic of the mounting fixture lists, with the Champions League and international schedules growing in recent years.

The Club World Cup is the latest brainchild of FIFA president Gianni Infantino.



“The Club World Cup is the worst idea ever implemented in football,” he told German outlet Welt.

Last year the Copa and the Euros, this year the Club World Cup, and next year the World Cup.

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Tournaments like the Club World Cup can’t be held on the players’ backs.

The Club World Cup has proved hugely controversial

Liverpool is not one of the Premier League clubs involved in the Club World Cup; instead, it’s Manchester City and Chelsea.

The pair could be impacted next term which would invariably hurt their Premier League title chance and could, conversely, improve Liverpool’s.


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