"We all let it happen 12 years ago." Klopp's angry tirade after Qatar World Cup question

At a recent press conference, a journalist asked Jurgen Klopp a question about the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The coach responded with a powerful speech. Fixing it.

How it all happened

Journalist: As a football fan, are you also looking forward to the upcoming mostbet-az-90.com World Cup?

Klopp: No.

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Journalist: Because of the timing or the events surrounding it?

Klopp: Both. In any case, I will watch the games, but the feeling will be different. I watched an old documentary about this whole situation.

When it was officially announced that Russia and Qatar would host the next two World Cups, it seems to me that for the first time two countries were announced at once. We know how it happened, and how we can still allow it to happen.

No legal action subsequently resulted in… Now it is revealed, now everyone knows about it. However, this was kept quiet and everyone wondered: Wow, how could they let this happen? It's already 12 years old and it's getting closer.

What else you don't like

You can't do anything about Qatar and its desire to host the World Cup, it's already very close. At that moment, when they decided to give the tournament to this country, everything was already clear. The people involved in this should have known about everything.

Later we will start talking about human rights regarding the fact that people work there in, to put it mildly, difficult conditions.

We are not could hold the World Cup in this country in the summer because of the temperature, it's quite hot there.

There were no stadiums in Qatar, at most one, they had to build new ones. Nobody thought about it, I didn't hear anyone talk about it that day. These stadiums have to be built by someone because they don't come out of thin air.

This is the situation, it can easily piss me off, can't it?

Once again, I'm looking at it from from a football point of view, and I don't like the situation where the players from time to time get into a position in which they need to convey some kind of message. You journalists should send it. You didn't write the most critical article about it, and not because it's Qatar and so on. No. They did not write about the conditions that were obvious.

We are to blame for this. Now we are telling the players that they must wear this headband, and if you do not, you will not be for them, but if you do, then with them. No, no, these are the players, this is a tournament, and we must organize it. Football players go there, play and give it their all for the sake of the country, it has nothing to do with the circumstances.

I already see on the news: What is it like to be there?, and this, like the whole situation, is not good footballers. It's a tournament, it's happening in this country, and we're all letting it happen because nobody did anything 12 years ago. There is nothing we can do and we must go.

Wonderful people live there, and not everything is so bad. It's just that the way it happened was wrong from the start. But now it is close, let them, the players and coaches, just play. And don't put Gareth Southgate in a situation where he has to talk about everything on a regular basis. He is not a politician, but an England coach. Let it work.

If you want to write more about it, do it, but in your own name, and not by asking us and then giving Klopp said or Southgate said that it would make a difference. We all, and you more than me, let this happen 12 years ago.