2024-06-01 05:05:46
Former nationwide coach Hansi Flick is taking on FC Barcelona. An outdated acquaintance is now set to observe him to the Catalan metropolis as his assistant.
Hansi Flick is more likely to strengthen his teaching group at FC Barcelona with a former German nationwide soccer participant. As Spanish media are reporting, Heiko Westermann will be part of the 59-year-old’s teaching employees as an assistant. Westermann is at the moment Christian Wörns’ assistant within the U-19 group of the German Soccer Affiliation (DFB).
The 40-year-old has performed for Betis Sevilla, amongst others, throughout his profession and is due to this fact acquainted with Spanish soccer. The central defender beforehand performed within the Bundesliga for Arminia Bielefeld, Schalke 04 and Hamburger SV. Westermann performed 27 instances for the German nationwide group and scored 4 targets.
Along with Westermann, Marcus Sorg and Toni Tapalovic can even assist the previous Bayern coach and nationwide coach Flick in Barcelona. After Hennes Weisweiler (1975/76) and Udo Lattek (1981-83), Flick is simply the third German coach within the historical past of the standard Catalan membership. The place in Barcelona has not been a safe job lately, Flick is already the eighth coach within the final ten years.
An enormous job awaits – on many ranges. Predecessor and membership nice Xavi is claimed to have incurred the displeasure of the membership administration by open criticism of the membership and a sensible evaluation of the probabilities within the coming years, and because of this needed to depart – the curious climax of a rollercoaster journey through which the 44-year-old had introduced at the start of the 12 months that he can be leaving early on the finish of the season, however then had a change of coronary heart and wished to remain.