Hansi Flick, new coach of FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona and Hansi Flick reached an agreement that the German will be the coach of the first men’s football team until June 30, 2026.. The new coach signed the contract at the club’s office at an event with Barcelona president Joan Laporta; First Vice President in charge of sports, Rafa Yuste; and the sports director of the Anderson club, Luis de Souza Deco.
The champion of everything is on the bench
With the arrival of Hansi Flick, Barcelona gains coach known for his assertive, intense and non-conformist footballwhich is accompanied by extensive experience at both club and national team level, thanks to which he has achieved almost every title that can be won in the world of football.
Flick was born in Heidelberg in 1965 (age 59). In 1996, Flick began his career on the bench as a player-coach at Victoria Bammenthal (1996-00), before heading to Hoffenheim for five seasons (2000-05). He then worked as an assistant to Giovanni Trapattoni and Lothar Matthäus at RB Salzburg, just before joining the German national team in August 2006, when everything changed.
Six years with Joachim Löw
After the 2006 World Cup, which was held on German soil, the German team was in the process of restructuring. Jurgen Klinsmann handed over the coaching position to Jurgen Löw and consequently Hansi Flick became his deputy. From that moment on, Löw and Flick led the German team, which performed brilliantly in the four major competitions in which it participated. Between 2008 and 2014, Manshaft played in a European Cup final (2008), a World Cup semi-final (2010) and another European Cup semi-final (2012), before winning the World Cup in the summer of 2014 in Brazil. the first of his greatest hits from the bench.
Sextet winner
Following the 2014 World Cup, including the historic 1-7 semi-final win over Brazil, Flick steps aside and is no longer Löw’s second. He served as sporting director of the German Football Association (DFB) until 2017 and then as general sporting director of Hoffenheim until February 2018.
A year later, in the summer of 2019, Bayern Munich hired Flick as Niko Kovac’s deputy, a position he held alongside the manager’s brother Robert Kovac. A few months later, the Munich company decided to abandon the two Croatian brothers and temporarily chose Flick as head coach. This decision would change the history of Flick and Bayern and would ultimately lead to a record-breaking season for all involved.
Flick is fourth in the team, and after two victories, Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has already confirmed Flick as coach until the end of the year. New update in December: Flick will continue at least until the end of the season. The results supported him: he became the first manager to achieve 22 wins in his first 25 games for Bayern, surpassing Pep Guardiola’s record of 21 from 25.
The season ends, as everyone already knows. Bayern wins the second treble in their history, including a painful 2-8 win against Barça, and a few months later Flick wins the UEFA Coach of the Year award.
Lewandowski, lethal weapon
After winning the Bundesliga, Copa and Champions League, Flick and Bayern ended 2020 with the German Super Cup, European Super Cup and Club World Cup, reaching a sextet that only happened in 2009 in Can Barça when Pep Guardiola touched the sky with Messi, Iniesta , Xavi, Puyol and company. Flick achieves this, among others, with Neuer, Alaba, Kimmich, Müller and Lewandowski, who averages more than one goal per game under his leadership.
Flick will remain on the bench until the end of the 2020/21 season, which also saw him win his second Bundesliga, his seventh title in just over a year and a half. He then informed Bayern of his intention to become the new German coach.
Despite a very good start from the Manshaft bench with eight wins from the first eight games, Hansi Flick ends up paying dearly for a defeat to Japan on the opening night of the 2022 World Cup, which ultimately leads to Germany’s elimination in the group stage, and a few months later, after a series of more negative results, Flick’s dismissal as German coach.