Why doesn’t Liverpool coach Klopp wear glasses anymore? – The World is a Ball

When a person changes their look, it usually makes an impact, attracts the attention of others.

If someone stays the same way for a long time and decides to be different, that impact is even greater.

That’s what happened to Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp, one of the most respected today, voted FIFA coach of the year in 2019, when he won the European Champions League.

One of his marks is his beard. Another, the cap, always on his head at matches. Another one, the glasses.

Because that last one is no longer. It was. It was.

For the current season, the German appeared without glasses, causing strangeness in those who were used to seeing him always with the accessory.

And even himself, as he said in interviews with the tabloid Bild, from his country, and the British TV Sky Sports.

“I think my face looks weird without glasses. I’ve been wearing glasses for 44 years, since I was 10.”

Without them, Klopp noticed, grudgingly, that his dark circles are accentuated. “When you take off your glasses, you don’t see your face, and that’s all right. Now I see it and say ‘my God!’”

Disposal of the optical device, his companion for decades, was necessary, he says.

“In the last few years, glasses were no longer able to correct my vision. The solution was a small intervention. It wasn’t a laser, but it made me see well.”

Klopp underwent intraocular lens implantation, a procedure aimed at correcting visual disorders such as nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism through surgery that lasts approximately half an hour.

“I don’t need glasses anymore,” declared the coach, “but I may need them again. When that happens, I’ll use it again.”

The possible need, he explains, is due to a difficulty in seeing at night matches, due to the effect of the light emitted by the reflectors, necessary to illuminate the field.

“It’s very likely that I will have to use [óculos] in games. But for normal things I don’t need them anymore, so I won’t use them.”

This story starred by Klopp reminded me of an excerpt from a famous song by Paralamas do Sucesso, “Oculos”, a hit in the 1980s.

“Why don’t you look at me? Tell me what’s wrong with me. Why don’t you look at me? There’s a nice guy behind that lens”, sang the nearsighted and four-eyed Herbert Vianna, at a time when eye surgery was considered risky.

With glasses, Klopp was always a nice guy, and good-natured, and positive, and smiling.

Hopefully, without them, it remains so.

In time: The superstitious will say that Klopp without glasses brings luck to Liverpool. There is no information on the date Klopp implanted the lenses, only that it occurred in the interseason, that is, July. After that, the season began, the Reds played 20 games, winning 14, drawing five and losing only one – a friendly against Hertha Berlin.