2023-09-22 17:06:34
The ex-coach of Bayern Munich Julian Nagelsmann is the new German soccer coach, as confirmed this Friday by the German Federation, after local media announced this week the name of the successor of the outgoing coach, Hansi Flick.
Nagelsmann, 36, signed the contract this Friday at the German Federation Campus (DFB) in Frankfurt and undertakes to carry out the position until July 31, 2024.
The former coach of the Bavarian team thus becomes the coach number 12 from the history of the German national team. Nagelsmann assumes the leadership of the German team after the departure of Flick, which occurred last September, 10th.
Triumph against France
Two days later, Rudi Völler and two DFB coaches, Hannes Wolf y Sandro Wagner, led the national team to a 2-1 home victory against world runners-up France in Dortmund.
The DFB announced that Wagner “will continue to support Nagelsmann as an assistant in the future and Benjamin Glück will be the other assistant coach of the national team.”
The 37-year-old player already worked in the TSG Hoffenheimhe RB Leipzig and, more recently, at FC Bayern Munich as assistant coach in Julian Nagelsmann’s team. They led Hoffenheim and Leipzig to the Champions League and won the German championship with FC Bayern in 2022.
“Something special”
Nagelsmann himself, in statements reported on the DFB website, recalled that the team has a European Championship ahead of them in their own country and “That’s something special, something that happens every few decades“I subordinate everything to the fact of having a great tournament in a great country,” he said.
For his part, the president of the DFB, Bernd Neuendorf, declared when announcing Nagelsmann’s appointment that “next year’s Euro Cup has a enormous importance for football in Germany as a whole“. “We are convinced that Julian Nagelsmann, as national coach, will ensure that the national team inspires its fans and that the European Championship is also a sporting success.”
Trip to the USA
“Julian Nagelsmann is un excellent coach who faces his new task with the greatest motivation. Now, we will all focus on next summer’s tournament and support Julian Nagelsmann as best we can,” added Neuendorf.
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In October, Nagelsmann and the national team are scheduled to travel to USA, where they will compete against the hosts of the next World Cup. After the start against the USA, on October 14 Germany will play Gold Cup champion Mexico on October 17 in Philadelphia.
On November 21, the German team will face Austria in Vienna in the last international match before the start of the European Championship year.
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