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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp won the FIFA Best Male Coach award for the second year in a row on Thursday night.
At an awards ceremony, Tottenham star Heung-min Son also collected the Puskas Award for Best Goal, his fantastic solo effort against Burnley, and Bayern Munich forward Robert Lewandowski crowned Best Male Player, the Anfield gaffer held on to the management accolade for another year.
However, it has since been revealed that in FIFA’s scoring system, Klopp finished tied on points with Bayern Munich manager Hans-Dieter Flick.
Flick took over an underperforming Bayern in November last year and, despite being his first head coaching job since coaching Hoffenheim in 2005, the former Allianz Arena assistant led the German giants to the treble. .
With the Bundesliga title, DFB-Pokal and the Champions League crown snatched away at the end of the season, he only came up with the second treble, including Europe’s highest honor in Bayern history.
After earning more fan points and media points than Klopp, who instead dominated the national team coach and captains categories, FIFA’s scoring system put Klopp and Flick on points with 24 each.
However, Klopp was crowned the winner due to the finer handwriting in the voting system, which in the event of a tie awards the award to the coach with the most votes from the national team coaches; In that category, the Liverpool manager won more than 100 points. more than Flick.
So in the end, Klopp was the choice of those who worked within the game, while Flick won the hearts and minds of those who watched – that is, journalists and fans.
Which in itself leads to an interesting debate about who is ultimately more important in soccer: is it the players and coaches who know the game best, or the media that provide its global coverage, or the fanatics who are the basis of his enormous wealth?
For now, it appears that FIFA is favoring the experts over the voice of the everyday fan, and the Best Male Coach award is just one instance of a much more controversial series of events (the Qatar Winter World Cup is the main one of them) where fans can feel The governing body of the beautiful game has put aside their opinions.
But few could envy Klopp for his latest honor. While Flick may have beaten him in the Champions League last season, creating the first Liverpool team to win the Premier League in 30 years is a huge achievement in itself.
Can Klopp hat-trick and pick up the 2021 gong too? We’ll have to wait and see.
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