The perfect job for Hansi Flick: Finally, unreservedly powerful!


The perfect job for Hansi Flick
Finally unrestrictedly powerful!

A comment by Tobias Nordmann

The long wait is over: The DFB is settling the successor to national coach Joachim Löw. As expected, Bayern Munich’s title collector Hansi Flick will take over the national team after the European Championship. And there he can finally work the way he would like to.

It’s a good day for Jérôme Boateng. Because with this Tuesday it should be quite likely that he will soon be a national player again. Like Thomas Müller. Like Mats Hummels. All three were banned from the squad in spring 2019 by means of a blitz from national coach Joachim Löw. The key word was upheaval. And there were actually good arguments for the head of the DFB team at the time. All three were no longer in the form in which they made Germany the world champion in 2014, for example. All three have now recovered, and all three are back in top shape. Hummels and Müller also back in the circle of the German national team. Except Boateng.

But after the European Championship this summer, there will also be a comeback. Should he not injure himself seriously or seriously or end his career spontaneously. Because after the EM Löw will no longer be national coach and instead of his Hansi Flick will take over. So the man who made him (Boateng) at FC Bayern from the unloved person, from the no longer needed footballer, to an absolute top performer again. In the 2019/20 triple season even more than in the season just ended. But even there he made it clear again: When it comes down to it, when the big games are up, when the tough opponents come, then the giant is there. Then he’s still a hero striker.

So nobody can prevent the comeback of the 32-year-old in the DFB team. Except for himself and Flick, but you see for yourself, actually that’s out of the question. Above all, however, no sports director can prevent that. His name is known to be Hasan Salihamidžić in Munich and enjoys the hotly contested right of squad sovereignty there. His decision. His word. It is no secret that Flick, who was often cross with the 44-year-old because of this, would have liked to keep Boateng. Nor that Salihamidžić had any other plans. Power struggles such as the one over the central defender had worn the coach down and prompted him to voluntarily and prematurely terminate his contract. The fact that the DFB had opened the door for him back into a powerful position after Löw’s announced resignation, it was certainly an extremely lucrative candy to say goodbye to one of the most coveted head coach positions in world football. That he is the right man for the DFB is absolutely indisputable: he strokes his players to top performances, has a clear plan, can enforce it and knows how to win titles. It doesn’t need any more arguments. They are the best.

FC Bayern retains its power

In Munich it would not have continued for Flick anyway. Too often he had complained about the power structure. He had lit too often. Especially against Salihamidžić. Vain. Without reverberation. The future club boss Oliver Kahn said after the request for exemption confirmed by the club: “Assume that we at Bayern are always very, very critical of ourselves and ask ourselves questions: Where could we have intervened? Where would we have things going can leave? ” But he also said that there would be no transfer veto, as vehemently demanded by Flick, even for future coaches, the next one is Julian Nagelsmann: “Of course, in the end, when the going gets tough, the club has to decide A coach always wants a top team and the best players, a sports director also has to look at the financial issues. But it doesn’t have to be.

At the DFB, as national coach, Flick gets all the power that was forbidden to him at Bayern. Sole sovereignty over all sporting matters of the team. Nobody is involved in the composition of the squad. Not even the mighty Bierhoff, whom Flick has known long enough from his assistantship to Löw between 2006 and 2014 to know whether there could possibly also be irreconcilable differences. When choosing his players, Flick is not tied to financial constraints, but only to the eligibility to play and then does not have to accept that contracts with service providers expire against his express will. Just like last time with Jérôme Boateng.

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