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title: "Klopp delighted with Woodburn’s Wales call-up"
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# Klopp delighted with Woodburn’s Wales call-up

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is delighted with Ben Woodburn’s call-up the Wales senior squad.

As quoted by the [club’s official website](https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/first-team/276934-boss-i-m-really-happy-for-ben-and-wales), the German discussed the youngster’s inclusion in his country’s squad for their upcoming qualifiers, and spoke of how happy he was for Woodburn.

> It’s fantastic. A lot of things could be not too positive in this situation… Ben is a fantastic boy, outstanding-skilled and very young still. So now you play for Wales and you come back and another boy would misunderstand the situation and it could be a problem, but he is just fantastic.

Woodburn is held in extremely high regard at Liverpool following a series of impressive displays at youth level. The versatile midfielder has already made some senior appearances for the Reds and is clearly admired by Wales boss Chris Coleman.

> We had a very good, even when it was very short, talk about it. I wanted to explain why the situation is different here but he said ‘no boss, I know’ so all good.

> He loves playing in the U19 UEFA Youth League, having the role he has there, fighting for this little advantage with boys the same age, playing with the U23s, training with us and he doesn’t expect \[too much\] in this moment.

![Michael Steele/Getty Images Sport](https://cdn.readeverything.co/readliverpoolfc/2017/09/842116640.jpg)

The 17-year-old netted for Wales recently in their narrow win over Austria, and also contributed with an assist in his country’s 2-0 win away at Moldova.

> He takes each minute as a fantastic opportunity to help whichever team, that’s the best ground and the best basis to have a really nice career – what he for sure will have. How we all think, not hope, but think is that this career will be here.

Klopp is clearly more than comfortable with his promising youngster going off with his country, as they look to push on in their pursuit to secure qualification for the 2018 World Cup at the end of the season.

> He has still a lot of things to learn, but I’m really happy for him and for Wales to have this fantastic opportunity to bring him from the start. Or having him as a sub is really cool, because obviously \[he had\] a big influence in the last two games – a big, big influence – and hopefully he can do so again.

Wales play Georgia and the Republic of Ireland in October.