Two weeks after the announcement of Xavi’s departure at the end of the season, FC Barcelona has obviously chosen its next coach: president Joan Laporta wanted a German technician and Hansi Flick was chosen.
The management of FC Barcelona did not delay. Only two weeks after Xavi’s shock announcement of his departure from the Blaugranas bench at the end of the season, the Catalan leaders have already chosen their next coach. It is Hansi Flick, as announced by Onda Cero Radio this Sunday (like other Spanish media in recent days).
Flick is said to have already accepted the job. The 58-year-old technician has started learning Spanish and is looking for assistants who speak both German and Spanish. He would become only the third German coach in Barça’s history, after Hennes Weisweiler in 75-76 and Udo Lattek from 81 to 83.
Laporta wants a German coach
Hans-Dieter Flick is not only the technician who led Bayern when Barça conceded a historic 8-2, on August 14, 2020, in the quarter-final of the Champions League, in Lisbon. Joan Laporta, the president of FCB, wanted to entrust the reins of his team to an experienced German coach, preferably already a winner of the C1.
The former assistant to Joachim Löw in the German selection was thus the ideal candidate since he has been unemployed since his dismissal from the Mannschaft last September. Thomas Tuchel and Jürgen Klopp were also considered, but the former PSG coach is expected to stay at Bayern, while Klopp, while leaving Liverpool in June, will take a vacation for a while.
