Soccer: Flick is irritated by the choice of the world coach

Hansi Flick gets the triple. Champions League. German champions. Germany Cup. You can’t win more in a year where there are no World Cup or Euro Cup finals. Then everything should be clear. Flick, who also took over Bayern on November 4, 2019, initially on an interim basis from Niko Kovac and this when they were only fourth, led the team to an unprecedented series of successes with 21 wins in a row. That is a German record.

On August 28, the team’s crowning: Bayern win the Champions League final against Paris Saint-Germain 1-0. This is the logical choice in Germany for the coach of the year. And then Flick’s personal culmination of being chosen as a world coach? Think!

Flick and Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp received exactly the same number of votes from team captains, national coaches and fans. In this case, the regulations stipulate that the coaches vote. Then they are weighted more. And here the cult coach of the Mersey has the advantage. Klopp’s track record in 2020: He won the first English championship for the Reds in 30 years. That’s! It is Klopp’s second title after he won it (as a premier class winner) last year.

Consequently, let’s say: irritated, the otherwise jovial Bayern manager shows up when Arsenal legend Arsène Wenger reads the name “Klopp” from his note. Flick solidifies to form hydrochloric acid. And shortly after it fades and no longer fades.

Bayern-Rummenigge hides irritation

Bayern coach Karl-Heinz Rummenigge expresses his irritation with the following words: “Of course, we also congratulate Jürgen Klopp on being chosen world coach, but Hansi Flick has won five titles in 2020 and allows you to fall in love with football. We know that he is a great coach. Without a doubt, Hansi would have deserved the title. “

Klopp also seems surprised. He says: “Without a doubt Hansi would have deserved it too. I am not the best coach, but I won the award. “

But how did this incredible choice come about? Well, except for the Spanish Ramos, who voted for Zidane, all the captains of the great nations voted for Flick. Then Harry Kane, Giorgio Chiellini, Hugo Lloris and Manuel Neuer. Something similar happens with the coaches of the national team: Gareth Southgate, Luis Enrique, Didier Deschamps and Jogi Löw voted in favor of Flick. Only the Italian Roberto Mancini gave his voice to the Liverpool manager.

Overall: Europe mainly chose Flick. Klopp won the victory with the votes of the rest of the world. Especially from smaller countries where the name Flick is still largely unknown. And there are mainly Commonwealth countries and former British colonies where only the Premier League is watched and counted.

By the way: neither Cristiano Ronaldo, who deliberately played the insulted liver sausage when Robert Lewandowski was announced as a world footballer, nor Lionel Messi as captain of Portugal and Argentina had Klopp in their top 3. Both chose Flick. Our Nati captain, Granit Xhaka, wrote Flick’s name at the top of his paper, Coach Vladimir Petkovic on Klopp.