Bayern Munich boss
Hans-Dieter Flick From August 2006 to July 2014, HansDieter Flick was the assistant coach of the Germany national team under manager Joachim Löw. In August 2020, Flick won the UEFA Champions League as the manager of Bayern, completing the club’s second continental treble. Hans-Dieter “Hansi” Flick is a German professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. As a player, he was a midfielder who played for Bayern Munich and scored five goals between 1985 and 1990. He later played 44 matches for Köln before retiring from professional football in 1993 due to injuries. Flick’s managerial career began in 1996 as a player-manager of Viktoria Bammental, which was playing in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg at that time. At the end of the 1998/99 season, the club was relegated to the Verbandsliga Baden, but Flick remained their coach for one more season. In July 2000, he became a manager of the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg side 1899 Hoffenheim, winning the league and
gaining promotion to the Regionalliga Süd in his first season at the club. After four unsuccessful attempts to reach the Bundesliga 2, he was released from duties in 2005.
Flick then worked briefly as an assistant of Giovanni Trapattoni and Lothar Matthäus and sporting coordinator at Red Bull Salzburg. 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 also said that he disagreed with Trapattoni’s defencefirst approach. 12 | EK MAG | ISSUE 07, September 2020
