Klopp loses his wedding ring on the pitch and experiences 20 seconds of distress – 01/10/2024 – The World Is a Ball

What is the value of an alliance?

Before responding, two clarifications.

1) I’m not referring to an alliance made with someone to achieve a goal, like what countries make in commercial relations or to fight an enemy in a war.

2) I don’t mean cash value.

This is the wedding ring, which is worn on the ring finger of the left hand (during the engagement it is on the right) to express devotion and commitment to the person you love.

And it’s about its sentimental value.

Only those who are married and wear a wedding ring can respond. It’s not a question for singles and unattached people.

I was on the married team and wore a ring for approximately 15 and a half years. That was how long the marriage union lasted. I didn’t take it off, as far as I remember, a single day. So much so that when I decided to do it she wouldn’t come out, it was a difficult process, it seemed like it had become part of her body.

Relating the topic to football, the person who is married (for the second time) and uses the wedding ring is the German Jürgen Klopp, one of the best coaches currently active, European champion (Champions League) with Liverpool in 2019 and runner-up in 2018 and 2022.

The 56-year-old coach’s wife is called Ulla, and they got married in December 2005, almost two decades ago, just weeks after meeting in a pub at Oktoberfest.

I don’t know if Klopp always wears the ring or if he takes it off at some point, but I know that it is vitally important in his life, extremely valuable, and that losing it is synonymous with the end of the world.

On the first day of this year, he experienced this agonizing experience.

At Liverpool’s stadium, Anfield, the home team, led by Egyptian Mohamed Salah, defeated Newscastle 4-2, a result that kept them at the top of the English Championship, three points ahead of Aston Villa.

After the final whistle, Klopp entered the four lines, as he always does, to greet his players and wave to the fanatical fans.

However, at a certain point, he realized that something was missing as he walked across the lawn. It was the alliance. She had fallen.

Klopp was distressed. He started looking around, down, and must have thought: “Look at the size of the field. How will I find it?”

He asked a nearby security guard for help, and his thoughts must have gone further: “It’s screwed. What am I going to say to Ulla?”

His anguish lasted 20 seconds (which must have felt like 20 hours to him), when someone from the nearby TV crew who was filming him at that moment located the silver ring and notified the coach.

In fact, what a good vision for this person, and how lucky for Klopp that the loss had happened close to where they were.

The German was happy. He opened his arms as if in gratitude, crouched down, picked up the ring, kissed it and then replaced it on his finger.

Then, he ran and punched the air, celebrating twice: the team’s important triumph and the recovery of the treasured object.

“I don’t like jewelry, but I can’t live without this ring,” he declared in the post-match interview.

The coach added that the loss was not unprecedented. “I needed a professional diver because it happened at sea.”

And he knew why the ring came off the finger – it happens when it gets thin. “[Acontece] if I lose a kilo or two.”

End of story. The scare at Anfield was just a story to tell, and Klopp could return to Ulla’s arms in peace.

There are many married people who, if they show up at home without a ring, will have serious problems with their spouse. This time, it wouldn’t be him.

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