Interview with DFB assistant coach Danny Röhl
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Coach Danny Röhl knows his boss Hansi Flick well – he already worked with him at Bayern.
(Photo: Jan Huebner/Imago)
Danny Röhl, assistant coach of the German national team, talks about his curious way into professional football, his relationship of trust with Hansi Flick and explains what an academy coach can learn from Hermann Gerland.
Interviewed by
Christof Kneer and Philipp Selldorf, Frankfurt
On Thursday, the German national players practiced the attacking game in the last third, the day before that the opposite was on the program, the game was trained against the ball. Hansi Flick used to draw up such training plans for the national coach Jogi Löw, now, as head coach, has he has a new Hansi: Danny Röhl, 32, has already assisted Flick at FC Bayern and has now followed him to the national team, where he forms the assistant coaching duo together with Marcus Sorg. Röhl’s career began as an analyst at RB Leipzig, later he supported the head coaches Alexander Zorniger, Ralf Rangnick and Ralph Hasenhüttl as an assistant. With Hasenhüttl he moved to FC Southampton in 2018, after ten months FC Bayern recruited him there, where Röhl won the treble alongside Flick. In his first major interview, the native of Zwickau describes how he went from student to professional trainer – and how a call from Hansi Flick changed his life.
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