The national coach should also be called Hansi Flick until the home European Championship 2024, which he agreed with the DFB leadership in an apparently unexpectedly harmonious meeting. A successor to Oliver Bierhoff will be named later.
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Christof Kneer and Philipp Selldorf
The DFB’s crisis group withheld a group picture with the national coach from the public. Hansi Flick got behind the wheel of his company car and drove away. For the time being, the DFB left open whether it was the business trip of its senior employee or the trip home of a private individual. Time passed and the journalists outside the doors of the Hotel Kempinski Gravenbruch puzzled over the result of the event. Nobody knew: Was the meeting over – or was it just over for Flick? President Bernd Neuendorf and his chief adviser Hans-Joachim Watzke were slow to respond. All speculation was allowed. In any case, a signal of unity – a joint photo – had already been dispensed with.