Uli Hoeneß sees great pressure on the "ideal national coach" Hansi Flick in the German national soccer team. “It is relatively easy for him now because he will hardly encounter any resistance. He's just the messiah, "said the honorary president of FC Bayern Munich on Sunday in Sport1-" one-two-pass ". “But if you are the Messiah, you have to be successful. The pressure on him is tremendous. ”Flick had won seven titles with Bayern as the successor to Niko Kovac. He succeeds Joachim Löw at the DFB. Flick managed to get the team behind at Bayern, "they went through fire for each other," said Hoeneß.

On Sunday, the 69-year-old also recalled the anger around Flick, who did not follow the same course with sports director Hasan Salihamidzic in personnel matters. During the greatest successes, there was much public anger about internal anger. “He contributed to that, I was pretty angry with him,” Hoeneß grumbled. As a coach, Flick was only interested in the sporting side, not in the economic side. "That is why he is actually an ideal national coach." Because the national team is not about transfer fees.

Hoeneß asked DFB director Oliver Bierhoff to be more active in public.

"It can only work if, for example, Oliver Bierhoff finally disappears from this oblivion and not only gives an interview every three months, but actively gets involved so that the whole project runs," said Hoeneß.

The fact that you cannot rely on people acting at the DFB, who are all amateurs, "is as clear as meat broth".

"My wife jumps into my back"

In connection with a new leadership at the DFB, Hoeneß proposed an advisory committee made up of personalities from professional football.

When sensible people approach him, the former Bayern boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge or Rudi Völler, "we can hardly ignore it," he said.

At the same time he repeated not to be available as DFB President.

"My wife jumps in my back," said the 1974 world champion.

From his point of view, it is a matter of the new DFB leadership also having sporting competence.

In this context, he could very well imagine that Philipp Lahm would be a candidate for the Presidium.

“A name that is extremely interesting,” said Hoeneß.

Former world champion Lahm is the head of organization for the 2024 European Championship in Germany and is already a member of the DFB Presidium.

Hoeneß also criticized the behavior of English fans before the final of the European Championship this Sunday (9 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the European Football Championship, on ZDF and MagentaTV). The English "behaved impossibly in every way," he said. Hoeneß is annoyed that during the round of 16 England versus Germany fans turned against a little crying German girl or that the Danish anthem was whistled. That has nothing to do with "sportsmanship", said Hoeneß.