Hardly. The journalist is trying to kill the argument that Vinicius is provocative. He literally says “Exactly” when Klopp says it’s unjustified…

@@XXXTENTAClON227 ahh I must have missed that. Good on him then, I misunderstood.

@@surplusvalue5497 it's stupid either way. Acknowledging the people who think his play style provokes racism and bringing it up to a manager in another country is senseless and idiotic. Even klopp thought it was stupid like "Imagine I just say yes to that.." because anyone in their right mind knows how dumb that argument is

@Jack you, too, are part of the problem, if you think you can make this into a discussion on what has been named "woke".

that journalist is a brazilian jornalist who supports vini jr, and that was what he expected as an answer, making jurgen say nothing justifies racism

Yo Brian!

you guys got it wrong, the journalist is brasilian, asking him to show that its only in spain that he is considered provocative.

The question was asked so Jurgen could shut down the notion of Vinicius being provocative, it was not placing blame on Vini.

​@@grantdowling8550 Black players in LaLiga is having less issue than Serie A players in terms of racism. Yet why only Vini got such treatment?

Indeed, this is completely wrong. This is a Brazilian journalist (Fred Caldeira) that did some videos supporting Vino Jr. He wanted exactly the opposite. His goal was showing that only in Spain the Vini Jr. behavior on the pitch is a "problem".

100%

​@Rodrigo Schaefer I am Brazilian also and follow Fred Caldeira and I know for sure he supports Vini, but the way he elaborated the question was really poor. And Klopp not knowing the context made the whole thing weird.

Not at all, Fred Caldeira is a good dude

Load of nonsense. Reporters are there to ask questions. A lot of other people (many in Spain) have suggested that Vinicius Jr provokes these reactions. Those people are the ones who are disgraceful. It's good this journalist asked the question so we could see one of the world's best managers say how ridiculous the assertion is. It's obvious the question wasn't meant to catch Klopp out.

I don't think the reporter was trying to get Klopp to agree. How Vinicius plays has been mentioned as an excuse for racist reactions by media, clubs and officials in Spain. So by asking this question, Klopp is given a chance to publicly state how awful that justification is, and completely come out against that idea.

@@RevRyan15 I am sick and tired of people banging on about racism 99% of people aren't racist and if they are name them , so pack it in .

@@michaeldooley5398 This reads like gibberish

@@RevRyan15 Stop banging on about racism bird brain , it's easy to understand .

@@michaeldooley5398 ah fuck i thought my head couldn't hurt more after two nights of anaesthesia but here we are after reading ur comment

I can see it now..we are going to be linked with him..amateur journalism..😮

no kidding! say that to the racist africans calling all kind of names to whites

Meanwhile it’s justifiable to do business with brands like Nike, adidas and etc. please...

Vinicius owns liverpool

Glad his not a Liverpool player he would cause to many problems for us haters of Liverpool 😂

A question which shows how big the racism problem still is. People think it could be justified by anything.

“Alexa… define asinine” I agree.

I don’t even think it’s that , a lot of the Spanish media seem to think the racism is justified because Vinicius winds people up on the pitch. Must be a Spanish culture thing

This is all the Spanish media trying to say it Vinis fault and justify Spain racism

good managers never blame their players, klopp makes excuses about the grass to put pressure on himself not the players

I am Arsenal fan but I have always respected Klopp. The man is the face of Liverpool FC whether they win or loose and in this instance talking about a very important issue which the reporter got himself tangled with.

Jurgen was actually being nice, on another day he would have finished that reporter

@@jdaking7648 Jurgen knew that the reporter was already self destructing himself so he need not do anything.

Same…a Real Madrid and Arsenal fan here, but also a huge fan of Klopp from the day he brought his Dortmund side to the Bernabeu and completely outclassed us…he’s the Perfect manager, and the only Manager i like as much as Ancelotti…pocketed that reporters dumb question in the most elegant way possible

F off , racism my arse .

It's from a while ago.

champions league

no he didn't. there was no trap and the question was perfectly worded. it seems like the Brazilian journalist speaks better English than many English.

I do agree with. The only problem is that Klopp didn't follow the news recently, so he couldn't give the proper response. Furthermore , I also think that it's crazy to suggest that Vinicious provokes fans to abuse him racially because of the way he plays the game. I don't care about Real Madrid, but I do recognize that Vinicious is a great player and I haven't seen him do anything on the pitch to invite racial abuse.

I kinda understand that, however, I don't think that his phrasing suits the purpose or is effective, loaded questions more often than not misguide the attention and even if you wanna trigger a specific type of response is preferable to be direct because to be fair is somewhat shitty to try to trap somebody like that, also, what if it backfires? Understanding the context and with what recently happened to Vini in the match against Valencia, I do empathize with the journalist intentions, but I sincerely think that there are better ways to defend Vinicius against the racist calamities that have been happening to him in Spain.

You're clearly missing the underhandedness of the question. He was setting up a trap for the manager to fall in with his response.

@@samnedumedja5323 I’d love to know what you can do to provoke someone to racially abuse you? XD i know that’s not what you mean, it’s just you worded it kinda funny ;)

Good on you for defending this pe son that you don't know, because if you do know this person in real life, then you are the same level of garbage he is for trying to stir up more bullshit and create further discord because that's what bad journalism does. Phrasing your statement is class 101 and how he phrased it was intentional. Don't defend people that defends racism

Exactly.

For a while now in La Liga, Vinicius has been target of chants that include racial slurs or racial connotations by ultras of rival teams, more often when Real Madrid plays away. To deflect allegations of racism people and some press and pundits in Spain have been saying that somehow Vinicius provokes this kind of behavior, shifting the focus of the conversation from racism to Vinicius character.

@@yungguattari4924 that much I've ascertained but thank you anyway. I'm just miffed as to why this journalist, no wait, this so-called "journalist", raised this question with a manager from a completely different league and detailed it in such as way that it invites misrepresentation of a response. The guy is a clown and a sad reflection of modern day rag media.

@@biteme8535 oh, yeah, that was a certain bullshit move even if he was intending to provoke an answer where Klopp say that Vini isn't a provocateur.

@@biteme8535 I think the question was asked the day before Liverpool faced Real Madrid at Madrid in the last champions league. Some journalists asked similar questions to other rivals (players) in La Liga and found out that those players agreed that Vinicius provoked that kind of behaviour, I think the question to Klopp was to notice the difference between La Liga and the rest of the football world.

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