“Hansi Flick as national coach is a risk” – the press review

“Picture”: “It’s completely a mystery what’s going on in Flick’s head. There is no discernible plan. He obviously thinks he knows everything better because he won six historic titles with Bayern in his first season – in the second season, by the way, only the championship (cup No more for second division club Kiel). (…) Instead, experiments, experiments, experiments that we can’t even afford! It’s incredible how we’re going full throttle to hit the wall with the EM 2024.(…) The DFB must immediately deal with national coach alternatives – anything else would be negligent!”

“football”: “The shrill whistles of the spectators in the Veltins Arena will ring in the ears of the DFB decision-makers around Rudi Völler for a long time to come. The sports director had already pronounced one before the end of the season in the event of bankruptcy. is in view of the renewed bleak performance without questioning any progress. Flick’s announcement that “everything will look very different in September” only sounds like a slogan to persevere. A year before the EM, the national coach and his team seem to have lost all orientation .”

“Sport Show”: “Is a successful EM possible with Hansi Flick? Or, apart from a bear as a mascot, is there also a problem bear as the national coach? (…) In the summer of 2023, Germany will have a staid national team with very good, good, but also many mediocre footballers compared to the upscale European segment. The national coach’s reputation has suffered greatly, and his quality is being questioned. The realization in Gelsenkirchen that Rudi Völler would change his mind should give Hansi food for thought.”

“Sports buzzer”: Perhaps Völler must continue to protect his most important employees because the clammy association simply cannot afford to be kicked out including a successor at the moment or there is no valid alternative. In the end, almost a year before the start of the home European Championship, the evaluation of the current coach must still be in the foreground – and that simply can’t be enough.

“Sport1”: “The national coach is partly to blame for this bad mood. It is increasingly turning out to be a mistake that the DFB stuck with the former Bayern coach after the embarrassing World Cup preliminary round in Qatar. Flick obviously missed his second chance.”

“Hansi Flick is hardly relevant anymore because of the doubts of the public”

“Southgerman newspaper”: “The national coach has to put up with even this critical question, but in the end the evening came to a head that should make Flick even more difficult: when he finally substituted Kimmich, it took 42 seconds before the ball fell unhappily on Kimmich’s hand rebounded – the penalty that Cuadrado converted to make it 2-0 (82nd) ​​sent a most worrying message at the end of an international year.Flick has not only made some unfortunate decisions in recent games.Fortune has now finally left him .”

“Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: “Not even half a year after Völler’s prediction, the time horizon that he specified at the time may have to be readjusted again. After just one win, one draw, but three defeats since the debacle at the World Cup in Qatar, the question of German football quality will not only arise in years, but very acutely. 2-3 v Belgium, 3-3 v Ukraine, 0-1 Poland and now . Since Tuesday evening at the latest, a bad suspicion has arisen: Can the German national soccer team perhaps not do any better? Völler’s current statements tend in this direction. “After the three games you have to say that the quality isn’t the greatest it was a few years ago,” he said on RTL.”

“Daily Mirror”: “Allowing Flick to continue as national coach is now a risk because he can hardly cope with public doubts. And because with every further failure, the memories of the coached World Cup come up again. The statements by sports director Rudi Völler (“The national coach is the poorest sow”) do not indicate that the German Football Association is seriously considering his dismissal.”