Hansi Flick is the brand new coach of Barça. He turns into the third German to handle the Catalan membership’s first staff. He’s, with Pep Guardiola, the one coach to have received a sextuplet.
1- Hansi Flick was born on February 4, 1965. He’ll rejoice his sixtieth birthday in 2025. He comes from Heidelberg, a metropolis of 150,000 inhabitants, 340 kilometers from Munich.
2- On the age of 20, Bayern recruited him whereas he was enjoying at SV Sandhausen. With the Bavarian membership, he performed greater than 100 Bundesliga matches and received the championship 4 instances. In 1987, he performed in a European Cup closing however misplaced in opposition to Porto.
3- His first coach at Bayern was Udo Lattek, simply following his time at Barça (1981-83). Lattek managed Bayern in two phases, between 1969 and 1975 and between 1983 and 1987. Subsequently, Flick and Lattek met once more in Cologne.
4- Aside from Lattek, Flick performed below the orders of Jupp Heynckes (1987-90) at Bayern and Erich Rutemöller (1990-91) and Jörg Berger (1992) at Cologne.
5- He retired from skilled soccer on the age of 28 as a result of accidents. He performed 7 seasons, or 148 Bundesliga matches, with Bayern Munich (1985-90) and Cologne (1990-92).
6- Though his profession as a participant was short-lived, Flick shared the locker room with legends like Jean-Marie Pfaff, Lothar Matthäus, Dieter Hoeness, Klaus Augenthaler, Andreas Brehme and Jürgen Kohler at Bayern. In Cologne he performed with Bodo Illgner and Pierre Littbarski, amongst others.
7- Even when everybody remembers that he was Germany’s coach throughout the 2022 World Cup, we should not neglect that Hansi Flick was Joachim Löw’s assistant between 2008 and 2014. Germany had reached the Euro closing (2008), the World Cup semi-final (2010) and one other Euro semi-final (2012) earlier than lifting the World Cup in Brazil in 2014, in opposition to Leo Messi’s Argentina.
8- His first match on the bench for the German choice was within the quarter-final of Euro 2008. It was a match in opposition to Portugal and the Germans received 3-2 due to targets from Schweinsteiger, Klose and Ballack.
9- Miroslav Klose, high scorer within the historical past of the World Cup, was one of many assistants at Bayern Munich for one season, in 2020/21.
10- Hansi Flick received a sextuplet in 2020 with Bayern. This feat was solely achieved by Josep Guardiola’s Barça in 2009. The Catalan coach subsequently coached Bayern. It’s now Flick’s flip to guide Barça.
