Germany sack head coach Hansi Flick after Japan thrashing

Hansi Flick was fired as Germany head coach on Sunday, the nation’s soccer federation (DFB) introduced, sooner or later after a 4-1 loss to Japan deepened the gloom across the squad forward of internet hosting subsequent 12 months’s European Championship.

The DFB mentioned director Rudi Völler can be one in all three coaches taking joint cost of the subsequent sport, a pleasant towards France on Tuesday in Dortmund.

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Germany haven’t received any of their previous 5 video games and have been eradicated within the group stage finally 12 months’s World Cup.

Flick mentioned after the loss to Japan that he wished to stay as coach and insisted he was the fitting particular person for the job. Sunday’s announcement got here hours after he led the crew in a public coaching session attended by followers.

Flick received the Champions League with Bayern Munich in 2020 and took the Germany job the next 12 months. He began by profitable his first eight video games — with out dealing with any of Europe’s high groups — however has simply 4 wins from 17 matches since then.

Germany captain Ilkay Gündogan backed Flick to stay after the Japan sport however mentioned the crew sorely lacked cohesion.

“A lot of our players, they are in a mental fight with themselves. There’s no confidence, there’s no understanding for the timing, for the right decisions on the pitch,” Gündogan informed broadcaster beIN.

The interim teaching employees faces a troublesome process towards France, who’ve received all of their 5 Euro 2024 qualifiers with out conceding a single objective since shedding the World Cup ultimate on penalties to Argentina final 12 months.

A probable everlasting substitute may very well be Julian Nagelsmann. He was Flick’s successor at Bayern till the membership changed him with Thomas Tuchel in March. After the France sport, Germany are subsequent in motion Oct. 14 towards the United States, and Mexico 4 days later.

“Now, us in charge, have to act in order to be able to play next year at the Euro the demanding and ambitious role of hosts that we are hoping to play. That is what German fans rightly expect from us,” mentioned Völler, who was nationwide crew coach from 2000 to 2004.

“The most urgent thing is then to bring in a national team coach who at short notice can redirect and prepare our team for the big Euro tournament next year.

“We count on from them, as does the entire nation, constructive impulses. A coach who can elevate our degree to the place we all know and count on it to be.”