Successor to Hansi Flick: Looking for a new national coach: Völler, always Völler

Status: 09/11/2023 12:27 p.m

The DFB is urgently looking for a new national coach. The profile is created quite quickly and there are options for the models. Always right in the middle: Rudi Völler.

There are wonderful anecdotes about what happened in past searches for a national coach. But the German Football Association (DFB) is hardly in the mood for anecdotes at the moment, so it is recommended at this point to search the Internet for “national coach”, “Villa Himmelseher”, “Christoph Daum” and “Paul Breitner”. That’s enough to end up with Erich Ribbeck and also with Rudi Völler.

In the past few months, the impression has become more and more solid that German football always turns to Rudi Völler when it is looking for personnel at association level.

Task Force, Sports Director, Interim coach

After the powerful national team manager Oliver Bierhoff was eliminated due to the failure at the 2022 World Cup, members were sought for a task force and Völler was found. Then they looked for someone to serve as interim sports director for national coach Hansi Flick, and Völler was found.

On Sunday (September 10th, 2023) someone was sought to look after the released national coach Hansi Flick on an interim basis for the international match against France on Tuesday (live from 8:15 p.m. on Erste and in the stream at sportschau.de) – and Völler was found.

Parallel to the preparations for this game, the search for a new national coach has begun. Rudi Völler is also looking, and among the names that could be found, Rudi Völler’s is of course also circulating.

New coach to “realign” team

Even if the German Football Association has sometimes given the impression in recent years, months, weeks and days that it decides important personnel details based solely on gut feeling, it should be assumed that a profile is created in the largest individual sports association in the world.

This has already become vaguely known. Rudi Völler presented it on Sunday (9/10/23). The new national coach must “realign” the team, which, according to Flick, was given a “new philosophy” before the debacle against Japan. The first and foremost aim is to make the 2024 European Championships in Germany a success in every respect. “In the long term,” said Völler, the new coach should “raise the national team back to the level that we know and expect from it.”

Two variants are conceivable

Two variants are conceivable. Variant one: A trainer who combines all the necessary features. This coach would have to be equipped with excellent expertise and be able to impart this to a team in just a few weeks of time together. It should be accepted by the vast majority of all interest groups, i.e. the team, the fans and the media.

He should at least speak the language of the two generations currently represented in the national team, from Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz to Thomas Müller and perhaps soon Manuel Neuer again, and know what things these generations deal with when they are busy with their cell phones or at home . Everyone can now see what deficits the DFB and especially Hansi Flick had in these points in the documentary “All or Nothing”.

Creating enthusiasm with words and demeanor is difficult when losing game after game, but ideally a new coach should be able to do that too.

The second variant would be a team of two people. A football teacher with excellent expertise and great acceptance in the relevant groups who leaves external representation to a partner.

Watzke, Neuendorf – and Völler

Someone or people like that are now being sought, primarily by Hans-Joachim Watzke, currently the most powerful man in German football, Bernd Neuendorf, the president of the DFB – and Rudi Völler.

If Völler himself is at least part of the solution, which was probably presented before the international trip to the USA (October 9th to 18th), the DFB can forego creating a requirements profile in the future. One simple thing is enough: Rudi Völler wanted.

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