Part of that is down to life events and part of that is down to events at the club. I was never quite out of love with the club I watched every game in the league and the Champions League but very few are imprinted in my memory between 20. And yet, Bayern has played football of the utmost quality, using some of Rangnick’s tactics (pressing the opposition incessantly comes to mind), over the past two seasons.Īnd that is credit to Hansi Flick, the man who made me fall back in love with Bayern Munich. Yet that one game between Bayern and Hoffenheim remains memorable to me football of such high quality is rare, especially in a season impacted by COVID-19. That game between Bayern and Hoffenheim in 2008 was almost the signal for a new German rivalry at the top until it wasn’t Wolfsburg would go on to win the title, Bayern would finish second and Hoffenheim would finish seventh. Years later, Hoffenheim would hire a young coach by the name of Julian Nagelsmann, who would take them to their best ever finish (third) in 2018 and generate excitement around the club again until his departure for RB Leipzig in 2019. Photo by Filip Singer - Pool/Getty Images Julian Nagelsmann will take over for Hansi Flick in July. Raphael Honigstein’s tribute to the match in the Guardian explained matters rather well, with Hoffenheim earning many plaudits for the way they played. The standard of the game and the speed at which it was played, left fans like me asking for more.
The decider was scored by Luca Toni in the dying minutes of the game after Vedad Ibisevic had opened the scoring and Philipp Lahm had equalized. The best game of the first half of that season took place between Bayern and Hoffenheim, with Bayern eking out a 2-1 win.
A village team by the name of Hoffenheim had been promoted halfway through the season, they would be crowned winter champions under the tutelage of a certain Ralf Rangnick. Klinsmann’s Bayern side did well in the first half of the season but that was not the fairytale story of the season. Bayern had rather embarrassingly lost out in the UEFA Cup the season before to Zenit St. There was hope and excitement around the appointment of a young coach, no less a former player, at Germany’s biggest club maybe Klinsmann would be the one who improved Bayern’s overall standard and who would guide them to a strong Champions League showing after years of rather abysmal performances, especially in the knockout rounds. Other candidates that have been mentioned include longtime Bundesliga manager Ralf Rangnick and former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger.It was the summer of 2008 Jürgen Klinsmann had been handed the reins at Bayern Munich with the minimal expectation of winning the league. Nagelsmann is considered one of the world’s top young head coaches, but recent reports have indicated that RB Leipzig would demand a fee of up to €20 million for the head coach. Liverpool boss Klopp has a contract at Anfield until 2024 and has dismissed speculation in the past that he could take over the Bavarians. “Last year, our squad – and everybody knows this – had more quality than the team this season,” Flick said at a press conference this week.įlick could also be keen to jump at the chance to take over as Germany manager this summer, with current boss Joachim Low having already confirmed he will leave after Euro 2020.įlick served as Low’s assistant for more than a decade and has been widely tipped to be his country’s new head coach.īayern have been linked with two of the biggest names in coaching: Jurgen Klopp and Julian Nagelsmann.
Hansi Flick worked with Jogi Low in Germany’s successful 2014 World Cup campaign.
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Though Flick is only in his first full season in charge of Bayern, there has been speculation about a breakdown in his relationship with some of Bayern’s hierarchy.įlick and sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic have feuded over transfer decisions in recent months, with many considering the relationship to be untenable. I am very grateful that I was allowed to accompany the team.” “It was important to me that the team heard it from me. “I told the team today that I informed the club during the week after the game in Paris that I would like to terminate my contract at the end of the season,” Flick told Sky Germany in a post match interview. The 56-year-old only took over as head coach in November 2019, and led Bayern to the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and Champions League treble in his first season in charge. Bayern Munich head coach Hansi Flick has announced he intends to leave the club at the end of the season.įlick made the announcement this afternoon following his side’s 3-2 win over Wolfsburg – a result that took them closer to yet another Bundesliga title.
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