Open crisis in Germany. The Federation announced this Sunday the dismissal of coach Hansi Flick after a embarrassing defeat in a friendly against Japan that was played on Saturday in Wolfsburg (1-4). The dismissal comes just nine months before the Euro Cup is held on German soil. Flick arrived at the Mannschaft in the summer of 2021 to try to modernize a script that had been in the hands of Joachim Löw for a long time, the coach who led Germany to win its last World Cup, in Brazil 2014.
Flick had just crowned Bayern as European champions in 2020, 2-8 including Barcelona, ??but as head of the German team he has never hit the key. He already experienced a moment of great anxiety at the World Cup in Qatar, since his team left for home without making it past the group stage.
For the sake of stability it was maintained but Germany has gone five games without winning and that has already been too big a burden. Although the match against Japan, with Barcelona’s Ter Stegen in goal, was not official, it was very disappointing.
Flick, 58, led an open-door training session for the public this Sunday but was later dismissed. Since their semifinals in the 2016 Euro Cup, Germany has gone from failure to failure.
“We have unanimously decided that the men’s team needed a new impetus after the disappointing results of recent times,” argued DFB president Bernd Neuendorf.
For this marters’ friendly against France in Dortmund, the sporting director, Rudi Völler, who was the coach who led Germany to the 2002 World Cup final, takes the reins of the team on an interim basis, and the U-20 coach, Hannes Wolf. , and former striker Sandro Wagner.
In the pools of the German press to succeed Flick, different names are already circulating. Among them that of Julian Naggelsmann, coach of Bayern until March, that of the Austrian Oliver Glasner, coach of Eintracht Frankfurt, champion of the Europa League in 2002, and even that of Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp, who would be allowed to make the two compatible. charges.
Flick’s dismissal is something new within the German team. His last ten predecessors had not been dismissed.
