Jurgen Klopp slams World Cup controversy: Football is being held hostage

Hydration breaks have been windingup Jurgen Klopp (Picture: Getty Images)

Jurgen Klopp warns football is becoming ‘background music to an advertising show’ as he questions the motivation for hydration breaks at the World Cup.

Players at this summer’s World Cup are having a break 22 minutes into each half to take on fluids.

Some games in the tournament – held in USA, Canada and Mexico – are played in extremely high temperatures, with the drinks breaks brought in to help the players stay as cool as possible.

However, Klopp sees the three-minute interruptions as ‘nothing more than a gilded cage built for sponsors’ while they have been badged up as a ‘noble sword against the heat’.

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