Tuesday April 27, 2021
From FC Bayern to national coach?
DFB is now negotiating very quickly with Flick
The DFB is now also pushing the pace. The outgoing Munich coach Flick is the favorite to succeed national coach Löw, who will stop after the EM. Talks should now begin. The renewed escalation of the DFB crisis could delay the negotiations.
Now it can also go ahead with the search for national coaches with Hansi Flick. Just a few hours after the confirmed change of coach at FC Bayern, the German Football Association announced talks with Flick and the German record champions. “It is well known that Hansi Flick is held in high regard by the DFB and is an excellent candidate as national coach. We can confirm that against this background we will now hold talks with Hansi Flick and those responsible for FC Bayern,” said the association With.
With the termination of the contract in Munich, the preferred candidate for the successor to Löw is free to return to the German Football Association. FC Bayern apparently wants something in return from the DFB and Flick, should the 56-year-old take over the German national soccer team. According to unconfirmed reports, the conversation will be a friendly game, as the DFB does not pay a transfer fee. Löw ends his work for the DFB team after the European championship in the summer.
National team director Oliver Bierhoff had previously excluded active discussions as long as Flick is in an ongoing contractual relationship. The situation has now changed. Julian Nagelsmann, who comes to FC Bayern from RB Leipzig, will take over the Flick post in Munich in the summer.
As early as April after the Champions League quarter-final at Paris Saint-Germain, Flick had asked Bayern bosses for clearance at the end of the season. He then philosophized about the other role of the national coach, which was publicly viewed as an interest in Löw’s successor. “Of course the DFB is an option that every coach has to consider,” said Flick.
How is the leadership crisis affecting the DFB?
Born in Heidelberg, he would return to the national team after seven years. In 2006 Löw made him his assistant after the World Cup summer fairy tale and his own promotion to national coach. The highlight of the joint work was the 2014 World Cup triumph in Brazil, Flick was awarded a large share of the title win internally in the DFB.
Löw’s assistant coach was promoted to sports director, but left the association in 2017. After a short time as managing director at TSG Hoffenheim, he joined FC Bayern in the summer of 2019 as Niko Kovac’s assistant coach, then became an interim and ultimately head coach with a sensational success story.
“We ask for your understanding that we are currently not going to comment on the further procedure, which we will initially coordinate with all parties involved with all due care and calm,” said the DFB’s announcement.
It remains to be seen to what extent the situation in the DFB can influence or delay the negotiations and the conclusion of a contract with Flick. After the latest statements by President Fritz Keller, who, according to media reports, compared Vice-President Rainer Koch with Nazi judge Roland Freisler at a meeting of the presidium, the leadership crisis in the association has worsened.
Keller has apologized for the derailments and has ruled out a resignation. The critical voices are increasing, the Presidium of the Bavarian Football Association was “appalled” by the “renewed escalation” that Keller had triggered.
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