Manager Jurgen Klopp likened Liverpool winning a first Club World Cup to landing on the moon but admits he could not care less if they do not get lauded for lifting the trophy.

On three previous occasions – in 1981, coincidentally against Saturday's opponents Flamengo – 1985 and 2005 they returned home empty-handed and it remains the piece of silverware they have yet to win.

The competition is generally derided in Europe, and England in particular, and Klopp has been criticised for taking his full first-team squad to Qatar and leaving behind a hugely-inexperienced youth team to get beaten 5-0 by Aston Villa in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup.

Many players have spoken in recent weeks about how winning trophies is driving them on, having lifted their first piece of silverware with the Champions League in June.

Midfielder Adam Lallana this week described it as an "addiction" and Klopp said his players' attitude has been first-class despite having to break from their normal routines.

"The Club World Cup winner, you don't often get the chance to do that and for most of them, with the countries they play for, they never have a chance to win a World Cup. This, for me, is also the only chance," said the German.

"They do not complain a lot. I never had to convince my team to come and play the competition.

"They were completely on fire from the first moment when they heard about it.

"You don't write history beforehand, you do something and then everybody tells you later: 'You wrote history'. But I have no clue whether it would be history.

"To be honest, that's not my first concern. Winning it would be great – I don't even know exactly how the trophy looks but I didn't know that about the (European) Super Cup either and that is a good example."