Kiev/Madrid
adidas Golden Ball and Alibaba Cloud Player of the Tournament
awards. He probably won the pharaoh play award too.
Next the refereeing team are presented with awards, one of
the linesmen getting his lag autographed along the way, before
Monterrey re-appear to get their bronze medals and Flamengo get
silver. I’m half-expecting the stewards to get medals next, but inally
it’s time for the world champions to be honoured.
One by one, Liverpool’s players have a gold medal draped
around their necks before Jordan Henderson is handed the
distinctive silver-and-gold trophy by FIFA President Gianni
Infantino.
The skipper does his now trademark ‘Henderson Shule’ – no
captain in world football has got quicker feet on a podium – before
turning away from his team-mates and lifting the trophy high into
the Qatari sky with ticker-tape blasting out behind him and Can’t
Hold Us, a 2011 tune by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, FIFA’s choice of
winner’s anthem. If only Queen had done a song that its, eh? But
who cares. The Reds are on top of the world.
As the travelling Kop celebrate an English record 47th major
trophy a popular current song is adapted by some – “Monterrey,
Flamengo we’re the greatest team by far, we’re the mighty
Liverpool we won it in Qatar, we won it in Qatar” – but the inal
word can only go to one man. Jürgen Klopp. The greatest manager
in the world.
“We don’t ly 3,000 miles not to show up. It’s a wonderful night
for us, the club, for everybody who is with us. I said before the
game I don’t know exactly how it would feel to win it. Now I can
say it’s outstanding, absolutely sensational.”
Now for the Premier League...BOBBY
VISION #7Words: Chris McLoughlin