Flick fired! DFB pulls the ripcord

Julian Nagelsmann is to become national coach in Germany. The ex-Bayern coach is said to be one of the hottest candidates for the position behind Jürgen Klopp. However, Klopp is unlikely to get a perfect solution because he is tied to Liverpool FC. That's why Nagelsmann should take over the DFB team and lead them to the home European Championships in a year. At the next international match against France on Tuesday (1 p.m.), sports director Rudi Völler, Hannes Wolf and Sandro Wagner will oversee the selection on an interim basis.

“The committees agreed that the senior men’s national team needs new impetus after the recent disappointing results,” said DFB President Bernd Neuendorf. He described Flick’s expulsion as “inevitable”. Nine months before the home European Championships in 2024, the association has to look for a new coach in one of the deepest sporting crises in its history. At the end of 2022, the DFB selection failed in the preliminary round of the World Cup.

Lots of changes, no success Flick took over the national team from Joachim Löw after the 2021 European Championship and won the first eight games, albeit against second-class opponents at best. In Qatar, the DFB selection was thrown out after the games against Japan (1:2), Spain (1:1) and Costa Rica (4:2), and Flick was unable to turn the mood around in the last few months. This week Flick announced that Ilkay Gündogan is the new DFB captain. Now the coach had to go. © APA/afp / RONNY HARTMANN

The 1-4 defeat in Wolfsburg was the third defeat in a row; the national team had last played so unsuccessfully almost 40 years ago. Flick had changed his team again, contrary to his announcement that he wanted to find his “core team” for the home tournament. A new tactic with Joshua Kimmich as a central right-back in the build-up to the game went completely wrong. Flick suffered his heaviest defeat in his 25th international match. He was still allowed to lead the public training session on Sunday morning. A few hours later it was over.

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Flick fired! DFB pulls the ripcord

Hansi Flick is no longer the coach of Germany. The DFB parted ways with the 58-year-old on Sunday, and the association drew the consequences after the 1-4 defeat against Japan in Wolfsburg on Saturday. The successor is apparently already ready.

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