Dietmar Hamann is clearly in favor of a change in the position of national coach. Lothar Matthäus would give Hansi Flick another chance – but he also calls for changes.
For Dietmar Hamann, an immediate separation from national coach Hansi Flick is inevitable, for Lothar Matthäus only under certain conditions.
“Only if you think he can’t do it anymore and you have someone new who you trust more, then of course you have to pull the ripcord,” said record national player Matthäus on pay TV broadcaster Sky: “But first you should continue Support Hansi despite this situation, in which he certainly made mistakes.”
In view of the sporting crisis of the national soccer team twelve months before the home European Championship, Hamann pleaded for an immediate replacement for the post of national coach. “The danger that things will go wrong with him is so great that you have to act now,” said the ex-national player: “It’s going in the wrong direction at a tremendous pace.” In his opinion, Flick has “lost the players’ trust” because: “If the team is right, then the boys do it themselves because they say: We’ll go through fire for him. That’s not the case at the moment. “
Hamann for Ancelotti or Zidane
Hamann spoke out as a possible successor for a foreigner. “We’ve been bouncing around for years and we think we’re the best and the biggest. But the fact of the matter is we’ve fallen so far behind.” That’s why he would appreciate it if the German Football Association (DFB) addressed the Italian Carlo Ancelotti or the French Zinedine Zidane. “It can’t get any worse than it is now,” said Hamann, “that’s why I would kiss Julian Nagelsmann’s hand.”
Instead, Matthäus called for tactical and personnel changes from Flick. “I think he can knock the three-man chain into the bin,” said the former Bayern captain. With the tactical experiment with the three-man defense chain in the disappointing performances against Ukraine (3: 3), in Poland (0: 1) and against Colombia (0: 2), the coach “cause for unrest”. In addition, a center forward must be set in the future.
But even these measures would not help if Flick stayed, Hamann suspects. “In the end you have to say: It doesn’t matter who plays where and with whom – it doesn’t work.”
Source: Stern
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