Biography, career and achievements of Hansi Flick, new coach of FC Barcelona

Already it is official! The FC Barcelona has announced that Hansi Flick will be the new trainer of the team, sucediendo to Xavi Hernández. The contractual bond will extend until 30 June 2026, and this will be the first adventure of the native of Heidelberg out of Germany like technical director and will be the third trainer germano in the history of the Catalan cast, following in its footsteps Hennes Weisweiler and Udo Lattek.

Originario Of Baden-Wurtemberg, before ingresar to the world of the technical direction, had a career like player that extended by more than 18 years. It began in the SV Sandhausen from the season 1982/83 until 1985/86, and afterwards gave the jump to the Bayern Munich, where played until the campaign 1990/91 and had the greater part of his career. It contested 139 commitments and attained numerous successes, including four Bundesliga, a Glass of Germany and a Supercopa of Germany. Later, it joined to the FC Köln until the course 1993/94, and afterwards joined to the FC Bammental, where was until the period 2000/01, exerting also like player-trainer.

In spite of some injuries that affected his career, Flick stood out by his versatility in thefield . It could be so much mediocampista defensive, like defender and even lateral. Perhaps the big has to of his career was in that it could not have a pasantía like player in the German selection, where only played a pair of meetings in the category Sub-18.

Hoffenheim, his first adventure like trainer to complete time

Now, after this periplo like player-trainer in the FC Bammental, would give start to his formal adventure like trainer when it was announced like technical director of the Hoffenheim in the campaign 2000/01. It accumulated a total of five seasons (until 2005/06), turning into the trainer with more clashes directed in the history of this team to date, with a total of 195 meetings. During his time in the 'Die Kraichgauer', attained a positive record of 88 victories, 46 ties and 61 defeats.

After his go through the Hoffenheim, had a brief period like assistant and assistant of Giovanni Trapattoni and Lothar Matthäus in the RB Salzburgo, that lasted little more than a month. Afterwards, in September of 2006, gave the jump to the German selection, where joined like assistant of Joachim Löw in the restructuring of the national team. During his period like second to the control, the 'Mannschaft' contested a final of the Eurocopa in 2008, a semifinal of the World-wide in 2010 and another semifinal of the Eurocopa in 2012, before winning the Glass of the World in the summer of 2014 in Brazil. East was his first big success like trainer.

Back to the conquest of the Glass of the World in 2014, Hansi Flick decided to leave to be the assistant of Löw and occupy a new charge in the German Federation of Football (DFB), exerting like Sportive Director until 2017. From this moment, returned to the Hoffenheim, where already was known, but no like trainer, but like Sportive General Director until February of 2018.

The Bayern Munich launched it to the stardom with his historical 'Sextete'

It would not be until the summer of 2019 when Hansi Flick returned to the benches, this time to the Bayern Munich. The team where had developed big part of his career like player hired it like second trainer during the era of Niko Kovač in the Bavarian bench. It shared this charge with the brother of the technician, Robert Kovač, and occupied it by a short period of 16 duels. However, shortly after, the 'Die Roten' decided destituir to the Croatian and appoint to Flick like main technical director of interim way.

This event marked a milestone in the path of the germano like trainer, since it led to the Bayern in an exceptional season, the 2019/20, in which they won the Bundesliga, the DFB Pokal and the League of Champions. Besides, they completed a historical 'Sextete' in 2020 when obtaining the Supercopa German, the Supercopa European and the World-wide of Clubs. Until this moment, only the FC Barcelona of Pep Guardiola had attained a similar attainment. In this same campaign, Hansi also broke the record of victories in the first 25 commitments in the Bayern, surpassing to the of Santpedor when adding 22 victories.

The native of Heidelberg continued in the bench of the combined muniqués during another season, the 2020/21, in which it won his second Bundesliga. Nevertheless, when finalising the campaign, informed to the Bayern his decision to leave the team to ship in a new adventure like seleccionador of Germany. This decision did reality and left to the 'Die Roten' after a successful stage in which it obtained numbers really impressive, with a total of 70 victories, eight ties and eight defeats in 86 meetings.

His unlucky go through the selection of Germany like trainer

Now, when it was announced like trainer of the 'Mannschaft' the first of August of 2021, his go through the German selection did not result to be so durable as it expected . Hardly it lasted 25 meetings. Although it began of promising way, winning his first eight clashes, the reality is that the exert of the selection Germany in the World-wide Glass of Qatar 2022 was disappointing, since it did not attain to advance further of the first phase.

Besides, the irregular results in the friendly against Japan, Colombia and Poland also contributed to his dismissal. On 10 September 2023 it was destituido of his charge and since had kept like free agent. Nevertheless, it is totally prepared to take advantage of his new and ilusionante opportunity in the combined Barcelona.