Barcelona has hired former Germany and Bayern Munich coach Hansi Flick as the replacement for Xavi Hernández. Flick signed a two-year contract with the Catalan club. It’s the 59-year-old Flick’s first coaching job since being fired by Germany in September last year.
FILE - The Germany’s head coach Hansi Flick reacts during the World Cup group E soccer match between Costa Rica and Germany at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor , Qatar, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. Barcelona has hired former Germany and Bayern Munich coach Hansi Flick as the replacement for Xavi Hernandez. It’s the 59-year-old Flick’s first coaching job since being fired by Germany in September last year.
Flick signed a two-year contract with the Catalan club, which announced his hiring minutes after confirming that it reached an agreement with Xavi “to sever the contract the coach and his staff had” until the end of the 2024-25 season. Xavi, a midfield great as a player at Barcelona, has left after the team finished a distant second to Real Madrid in the Spanish league this season.this summer. In April, he said that he had changed his mind because the team was playing better and he believed it could bounce back from a trophy-less season.New coach Emma Hayes conducts 1st practice with US women’s soccer team, preparing for Paris GamesBarcelona president Joan Laporta had publicly celebrated Xavi’s commitment to stay at that time.
Until now, that two-year stint at Bayern was Flick’s only career job with a top-division club. Before that he was best known as an assistant coach on the World Cup-winning German team of 2014.
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