What every current Liverpool player was doing during the 2022 World Cup

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As we edge ever closer to this summer’s World Cup, let’s look back to the 2022 edition, and where every Liverpool first-team star was back then. Which Liverpool player would you most like to see lift the World Cup this summer?

Let’s run through them — not a ‘Where are they now?’, but a ‘Where were they then?’ We’ll just look at the first-team players currently at the club, and exclude the youngsters who wouldn’t have been up to much.Liverpool players during the 2022 World Cup When the 2022 World Cup rolled around in Qatar, Alisson Becker was already Liverpool’s No. Jeremie Frimpong was with Bayer Leverkusen and did make the Netherlands squad, even if he never got on the pitch in Qatar.Joe Gomez was of course at Liverpool too, but he missed out on England’s final squad.

Virgil van Dijk was there for the Netherlands as captain and led them to the quarter-finals before they were knocked out by Argentina.Photo by Khalil Bashar/Jam Media/Getty ImagesIbrahima Konate was another Liverpool man in Qatar and he ended up going all the way to the final with France. Mac Allister and Gakpo are the obvious ones, because that tournament genuinely shifted the way people looked at them.READ MORE: Ranking Liverpool’s World Cup hopefuls: The nine players who can go all the wayJoin Our NewsletterReceive a digest of our best Liverpool content each week direct to your mailbox