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The English royal family has nothing to do with the German Football Association (DFB), but just as everyone is staring at the rift at the Windsors, the DFB is probably hoping for the rift at Bayern.
"Zoff between Flick and Salihamidzic" - crashing headlines of this kind suddenly spread over the broken relationship between coach and head of sport, and they must sound like music to the ears of national team manager Oliver Bierhoff.
Because if this noise
a)
not only exists, but
b
) escalates at best, that would be the solution for Bierhoff.
But not just for him.
The specialist organ “Kicker” has now asked its readers the fate of the nation (“Who should be a national coach?”), And Hansi Flick is leading.
However, only very thin.
At a dry 24.72 percent the approval was on Sunday, the competitors Stefan Kuntz and Lothar Matthäus are sitting close to his neck, at least one thing is already emerging: this time we will get the best possible national coach.
It's never enough for the best.
Herberger and Daum
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Who was the last national coach who was also the best German coach at the same time?
Generations of experts have racked their brains over this question, but the correct answer only emerged when the elderly and the dead were consulted: It was Sepp Herberger, our Reich trainer under Adolf Hitler, later he was still a national trainer the father of the miracle of Bern.
At the turn of the century, Christoph Daum, the Bundesliga champion maker, almost made it - but in a hair analysis, the cocaine content of his hairstyle exceeded the permitted limit, and again nothing came of it.
Like now.
Jürgen Klopp would be the best, but he doesn't want to, he's bound.
Julian Nagelsmann doesn't want either, and neither does Thomas Tuchel.
Ralf Rangnick wants, but Bierhoff obviously doesn't want him.
He prefers Flick, but does FC Bayern want that too?
Bierhoff has to kneel to Karl-Heinz Rummenigge or Uli Hoeneß or whoever has to kneel at Bayern.
On the other hand: Rummenigge is Flick's biggest patron - and without the board boss, who is about to abdicate, especially "Bild" rumors, the coach at Bayern might soon be unable to hold anything.
Rummenigge, however, just replied: "We would be crazy if we let our coach go early now."
Hansi Flick (left) and Joachim Löw during training for the national team in May 2012
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Would Hansi Flick even be the right national coach?
Anyone who had asked this question a year and a half ago would have been admitted immediately.
And whoever had predicted at the time that the Notnagel Flick would lead Bayern to all winnable titles, would become Fifa vice world coach of the year and now possibly national coach, would have been completely incapacitated.
For many, Bayern coach Flick was the biggest mistake since the Roman Emperor Caligula appointed his horse consul.
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And now?
No messing about.
Everything paletti, great team, perfect spirit, and Thomas Müller müllert again.
In other words: Flick can make players better.
And he can lead people.
He manages to take national player Leroy Sané in in the 32nd minute and out again in the 68th minute without feeling emasculated and the store blown up.
At a time when more and more footballers listen to their hairdresser or tattoo artist rather than the coach, Flick can feel exactly which stars he needs to heat the jersey or preheat the toilet seat and which ones need the rolling pin over their head, for one better blood circulation.
In short: Flick can handle a team well.
But it is exactly at this point that the doubters also speak up, modify the sentence slightly and say: Everyone can deal with a team that is good.
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Especially when a Lewandowski plays along.
The Pole hits, hits and hits like Gerd (“Bomber”) Müller in the glorious time when the emperor and libero Franz Beckenbauer revealed to the astonished journalist Horst Vetten: “Don't tell anyone, but even with you as a coach we would become champions The then coaching guru Max Merkel went even further and added with his Viennese humiliation: "FC Bayern could also train a walking stick." Merkel later landed on "Bild" as a coach evaluator.
His top mark was six balls.
How many would he have given Flick?
You can no longer question Merkel.
One thing is certain: it makes no difference whether a Bayern coach or national coach is.
Because the highly gifted also run to a national coach, he then only has to throw the eleven correct dice.
Heroes from 1990: The then DFB team boss Franz Beckenbauer (left), captain Lothar Matthäus and final scorer Andreas Brehme (right)
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It was like that in 1990, when the team boss Beckenbauer handed over his world champions to Berti Vogts and calmed the nation with the sentence: "It doesn't matter whether Berti sits on the bench or Chancellor Kohl." Or Marcus Sorg.
The assistant coach replaced his boss Joachim Löw when he was sick twice and won 2-0 and 8-0.
"Congratulations from the national coach", Sorg said to the team afterwards - otherwise Löw's absence might not have noticed.
Flick would be able to do all of this too.
"He is", even his competitor Lothar Matthäus admitted on Sunday, "the ideal candidate."
And Flick wouldn't be a stranger.
He knows the store and all the processes.
He used to be Löw's assistant coach and didn't screw up anything, only at the EM 2012 in Poland he was noticed once.
Before the game against Portugal, Flick announced at the press conference as a strategy against Ronaldo's free kicks: "Put your steel helmet on and make it big."
The Poles winced, for them it smelled suspiciously of helmets from old Wehrmacht stocks, and Flick was shocked by himself. But that is statute-barred, he has been pulling at his belt since then, and the DFB shouldn't have to fear that Flick, like Jürgen Klinsmann, in 2004 starts and says: "Now the shop will be taken apart first."
At first glance, there is little to be said against a national coach Flick, and if necessary, he has to counter the last stinkers who do not directly consider him a tactical tinkerer with a swerve on the already mentioned Beckenbauer, who briefly in the cabin as team boss our hands clapped and said: “Go out and play.” That's how we became world champions.
Hansi Flick doesn't have to deliver any more.