Liverpool win Club World Cup

Photo: Collected
Photo: Collected

For the very first time, Liverpool have won the Club World Cup after Roberto Firmino’s extra-time goal allowed Liverpool to beat Flamengo 1-0 in the final in Doha on Saturday.

In three years, the biggest prize in soccer will be handed out in a stadium yet to be completed.
With a 45,000-strong crowd packed into Khalifa Stadium, Qatar has shown it can fill a venue with sports fans - unlike at the track and field world championships earlier this year.
But it is a stadium touched by the welfare concerns that have dogged Qatar’s building work since being awarded the main 32-team World Cup in 2010 by FIFA. A British worker plunged to his death during the construction phase in conditions later deemed to be dangerous.
The latest piece of silverware is Liverpool’s third in little over six months after they won the Champions League in June and began this season by winning the UEFA Super Cup on penalties against Chelsea.
Van Dijk returned against Flamengo after illness kept him out of the 2-1 semi-final victory against Monterrey and that determination to be back playing summed up Liverpool’s attitude towards the competition. Read more

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