Contract until the home European Championships
Julian Nagelsmann is to become the new national coach
September 19, 2023, 12:39 p.m
The German Football Association has found its new national coach: Julian Nagelsmann is taking over the national team, according to consistent media reports. The 36-year-old should receive a contract until after the home European Championships in 2024.
According to consistent media reports, the DFB has found a successor for the recently dismissed national coach Hansi Flick: Julian Nagelsmann, who was considered a possible new head of the national soccer team at an early stage, will lead the DFB team, which has recently been rushing from disaster to disaster, at least until the home European Championships next year Take over summer. According to the “Kicker”, an oral agreement was reached on Tuesday; official confirmation is expected in the coming days, according to the “Kicker”. Before that, Nagelsmann would have to terminate his contract in Munich, and the process would have to be confirmed by the DFB committees. DFB President Bernd Neuendorf announced this morning: “We are in good discussions.”
The coach, who is under contract with FC Bayern Munich until July 2026 after being released in March of this year, would apparently forego a lot of money for the new position. The new national coach will earn around 400,000 euros per month at the DFB, according to the reports. At FC Bayern, his annual earnings are said to have been around seven million euros. The German record champions announced early on that they would waive a possible transfer fee for Nagelsmann in favor of the financially strapped DFB.
The DFB parted ways with Hansi Flick on September 10th due to continued lack of success. The DFB team had lost 4-1 against Japan the previous evening, their third game in a row. In the subsequent 2-1 (1-0) win against runner-up world champion France, DFB sports director Rudi Völler looked after the national team together with U19 coaches Hannes Wolf and Sandro Wagner. Völler had categorically ruled out any further engagement.
The new national coach will celebrate his debut on the DFB team’s upcoming trip to the USA: the team will meet the USA on October 14th (9 p.m./RTL and in the ntv.de live ticker), four days later the team plays against Mexico. At the end of a turbulent international year, Austria awaits on November 21st with German coach Ralf Rangnick.