The new national coach, Hansi Flick, demanded an “all-in” mentality from players and team on Tuesday: “I lived it that way in Munich. I’ll live that here, I’m an absolute team player and that’s why it’s just important that we all have such an “all-in” mentality here. That means we want to be “all-in” as much as possible, you all know from poker, I bet all-in because I think I did everything I could to get the pot in order to win. And “all-in” mentality for me really means that you give everything in order to leave the field as the winner in the end. “He praised the players of the national team, but made no secret of the fact that he expects the best from them: “These are the best players in Germany. That means we also have a certain quality. And I want to see them on the pitch. I want us to just take the initiative. The opponent – and the European Championship also showed that if you attack early, if you attack together, you put the opponent under pressure, if you have high ball wins, that the way to the opposing goal is of course a little shorter than a little further back. Flick praised his predecessor Jogi Löw for having done a great job for German football. The first international match with Flick as coach will be the World Cup qualifier at the beginning of September.
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