Joint-top scorer in @FIFAWorldCup history ✅
200th Argentina appearance ✅
Record-extending 27th FIFA World Cup appearance ✅
First-ever FIFA World Cup hat-trick ✅
A historic night for Lionel Messi! 🙌
🚨 Jürgen Klopp SLAMS Water Breaks 🚨
🗣️ Klopp:
▪️This is the state of football when it becomes a hostage to executives sitting in air-conditioned offices.
▪️They sold us so-called 'cooling breaks' as a way to protect player welfare and as a noble weapon to combat the heat. But in reality? It is nothing but a golden cage built for sponsors and advertisers.
▪️When I saw the players stopped during a cooling break while TV broadcast times were dictating the rhythm of the match, I couldn't help but wonder: 'Who does the World Cup really serve…? The fans? The players? Or the advertisers?'
▪️A World Cup match should flow like a river. But instead, we are building dams in the middle of it just so commercials can pass through. This is dangerous for the spirit of the game.
▪️Football was once the main event. Now, it is threatened with becoming mere background music for an advertising show.
▪️We are told that these breaks are for player welfare, and of course, player health is important. But when the game begins to bow to TV broadcast schedules, it's only natural for people to ask questions. The ball is supposed to be the star, not the commercial break.
▪️The World Cup is the cathedral of football. Yet, sometimes I feel we have turned it into a shopping mall, where the cash register commands more respect than the match itself.
▪️If this is the future, then football is no longer being interrupted by commercials... rather, football itself has become the break between commercials.
CHAMPIONS x4 🏆🏆🏆🏆 Quatre de sis finals seguides: seguirem fent més gran la llegenda d’aquest equip. Gràcies culers per tot el suport que ens doneu sempre. Visca el Barça, el millor club del món. 💙❤️