Jordan Henderson not even thinking about football just yet

Jordan Henderson

Liverpool skipper Jordan Henderson says football is not even in his thinking at the moment and admits to “challenging times” amid the lockdown of the country due to coronavirus.

Liverpool’s Melwood training base is locked down and the players are following individual player fitness programmes at home as Jurgen Klopp aims to keep his squad conditioned.

Henderson says the players also have a Whats App group to keep up their spirits with the Premier League suspended until April 30 at the earliest.

“It has been challenging at times, especially when you’ve got three kids running around the house,” Henderson to Liverpool FC via videolink.

“But at the same time I feel as though I’m in a luxury position if you like, in terms of I’ve got a garden, a nice house that the kids can go and run around and play in, go in the garden and play.

“I understand a lot of people might not have that luxury. I’m surrounded, obviously, by my wife and kids, so it makes it a lot easier.

“But there’s people out there who are a lot worse off who are suffering more than I am and my thoughts really just go out to them. It sort of puts everything into perspective a little bit.

“Football isn’t even in the thought at the minute. Of course myself and other players will be wanting to get back as soon as possible and be chomping at the bit to go and play football.

 

 

 

“But at the same time, you understand that there’s bigger problems and bigger things going on in the world.

“We just need to do our best to support our families, stay safe and just keep listening to what the authorities are telling us. And hopefully this period can finish sooner rather than later and everybody can start some normality off again sooner rather than later.”

Henderson added: “We’ve got a big WhatsApp group and things are getting fired in quite often, so everybody’s sort of staying in contact and chucking different videos in and different challenges that we can do.

“There has been a lot of contact with the lads because normally we’re spending every day together and travelling together and all sorts of stuff. To not see each other for a long period of time is strange, especially at this time of the season. But at the same time, when we have the off-season, again, it’s pretty similar to that.

“It’s just the time that we’re at and the stage that we’re at in the season that it is a little bit different. Now we’re in the house and you can’t really do anything else, it is a bit strange.”

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