Hansi Flick will be the new national coach of the national soccer team and will inherit his former boss and world champion coach Joachim Löw.

As the German Football Association confirmed on Tuesday, the 56-year-old will take over the highest national coaching post after the EM this summer after his successful engagement with seven titles at Bayern Munich.

He receives a contract until 2024.

For Flick, the top job is a return.

In 2006 Löw made him his assistant after the World Cup summer fairy tale and his own promotion to national coach.

Flick has already been on the sidelines as the responsible coach at an important international match.

When Löw was banned from UEFA in the 2008 quarter-finals, the national team won with him as a temporary coach in Basel 3-2 against Portugal.

The first international matches as a real boss are now in the World Cup qualification against Liechtenstein, Armenia and Iceland in September.

This year there will be two more competitive games each in October and November.

Flick's success story at FC Bayern

Flick accompanied Löw as an assistant until the 2014 World Cup triumph in Brazil, in which he played a key role as a tactical source of ideas.

Then he rose to the position of sports director at the DFB.

In 2017, the former Bayern professional surprisingly left the association to take a break.

Half a year later he became managing director at TSG Hoffenheim - but the project only lasted a few months.

At FC Bayern, Flick got back in 2019 as Niko Kovac's co-coach and initially became interim boss after the Croatian was eliminated.

The star players around Thomas Müller and Joshua Kimmich followed him.

Flick wrote an unimagined success story with seven titles in 18 months - including the Champions League triumph in 2020 in Lisbon.

When Löw announced his retirement after the EM in February, Flick was immediately a logical candidate for his successor. Official talks were not allowed to take place due to the existing Bayern contract until 2023, but Flick himself asked for approval in April after the premier class at Paris Saint-Germain and the subsequent victory in Wolfsburg. FC Bayern released Flick on June 30th and released Julian Nagelsmann from league opponent RB Leipzig as his successor.