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Christof Kneer and Philipp Selldorf
On August 1st, Hansi Flick took up his job as national coach, he has been number 11 since 1926. While some of his predecessors had taken the direct route from assistant to boss – Helmut Schön, Jupp Derwall and a certain Joachim Löw – Flick has a golden one Detour elected: he was once the assistant to a certain Jogi Löw, stopped at the height of his success after winning the World Cup in 2014 and then made a career as head coach. At Bayern, the assistant Hansi turned into the top coach Flick, about whom Jürgen Klopp said after winning the triple including the Champions League: “It will be difficult to write more history in nine months.”