Bayern Munich boss - Hans Dieter Flick

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.

He was named the assistant coach for Germany on 23 August 2006. Although not listed as an officially recognized manager by the DFB, due to the sending off of Joachim Löw in the previous game, Flick was technically the German manager for the UEFA Euro 2008 quarter final against Portugal on 19 June 2008, which ended in a 3-2 win for Germany. After finishing second at the UEFA Euro 2008 and third at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, he reached the semi-finals at the UEFA Euro 2012 and won the 2014 FIFA World Cup as assistant coach of Germany. He became sporting director at the German Football Association after the 2014 World Cup until 16 January 2017.

Flick joined Bayern Munich as an assistant coach, under the management of Niko Kovač. When Kovač left Bayern by mutual consent in November 2019, Flick was promoted to the interim manager position. In his first match in charge, Bayern defeated Olympiacos 2–0 in the UEFA Champions League group stage on 6 November 2019. After a satisfying spell

as an interim coach, Bayern announced that Flick will remain manager until the end of season. In April 2020, Bayern Munich gave Flick a new contract lasting until 2023. He successfully guided Bayern to win the 2019/20 Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, and the UEFA Champions League, thus completing the continental treble for the second time in their history. He was subsequently named German Football Manager of the Year by sports magazine Kicker.

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