1. Hansi Flick began his managerial career as player-manager of fourth-division club Victoria Bammental.
24 Facts About Hansi Flick
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From 2006 to 2014, Flick was the assistant coach of the German national team under Joachim Low, contributing to their victory at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
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Hansi Flick subsequently served as the sporting director of the German Football Association from 2014 to 2017.
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Hansi Flick was later appointed permanently, and won the UEFA Champions League that season, completing the club's second continental treble.
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Hansi Flick later replaced Low in charge of the Germany national team in 2021, leading the team to qualification for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, before being dismissed in 2023.
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Hansi Flick later played 44 matches for Koln before retiring from professional football in 1993 due to injuries.
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Hansi Flick's last spell as a footballer was with Victoria Bammental from 1994 until 2000.
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In July 2000, Hansi Flick became a manager of the Oberliga Baden-Wurttemberg side TSG Hoffenheim, winning the league and gaining promotion to the Regionalliga Sud in his first season at the club.
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Hansi Flick later worked briefly as an assistant of Giovanni Trapattoni and Lothar Matthaus and sporting coordinator at Red Bull Salzburg.
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Hansi Flick stated that his work under Trapattoni, one of the world's most renowned managers, taught him many things, especially on tactics and in developing relations with players, but said that he disagreed with Trapattoni's defence-first approach.
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Hansi Flick was named the assistant coach for Germany on 23 August 2006.
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Hansi Flick became sporting director at the German Football Association after the 2014 World Cup until 16 January 2017.
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On 2 July 2019, Hansi Flick joined Bundesliga club Bayern Munich as an assistant coach, under the management of Niko Kovac.
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Hansi Flick was named German Football Manager of the Year by sports magazine Kicker, and won the UEFA Men's Coach of the Year Award.
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On 17 April 2021, Hansi Flick announced that he had told the club he wanted to leave at the end of the season.
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Hansi Flick voiced his desire to coach the Germany national team, given his previous job as an assistant to present German team manager, Joachim Low.
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Hansi Flick left Bayern with one of the greatest winning records in modern football history.
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Hansi Flick coached Bayern to a treble, the second treble in Bayern's history.
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In October 2020, Hansi Flick won Europe's Coach of the Year, an award for the best coach in football in the major football leagues of Europe.
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On 25 May 2021, the German Football Association announced that Hansi Flick signed a three-year contract from 1 August 2021 to serve as the manager of the Germany national team, and he replaced his former boss Joachim Low after UEFA Euro 2020.
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Hansi Flick lasted two years in charge and had the second-worst point rate of 1.72, only ahead of Erich Ribbeck with 1.50 points per game.
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Hansi Flick was the first manager of Germany to be sacked in the role's history.
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On 29 May 2024, Hansi Flick signed as the new head coach of La Liga club Barcelona on a contract until 30 June 2026.
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Hansi Flick became the third German in the club coaching history, after Hennes Weisweiler and Udo Lattek.