{"id":458754,"date":"2023-09-10T19:28:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458754"},"modified":"2023-09-10T19:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T15:28:11","slug":"hansi-flick-sacked-as-germany-manager","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/hansi-flick-sacked-as-germany-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Hansi Flick sacked as Germany manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hansi Flick has been sacked as Germany&#8217;s head-coach following a disastrous run of results, which saw the <em>Mannschaft\u00a0<\/em>record only 4 wins in 17 games, including the most recent 4-1 humiliation to Japan in a friendly.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 Treble winner with Bayern Munich becomes the first German head-coach to receive the sack since the position was created way back in 1926, almost 100 years back.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: Hansi Flick was fired as Germany head coach on Sunday, the country&#39;s football federation (DFB) announced.<\/p>\n<p>Germany lost 4-1 to Japan on Saturday, deepening the gloom around the squad ahead of hosting next year&#39;s European Championship. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1l5iDY1gBd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1l5iDY1gBd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNFC\/status\/1700886317138124999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rudi Voller, who managed the team between 2000 and 2004 will step in as a temporary solution. He will be assisted by Hannes Wolf and Sandro Wagner.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea Rudi V\u00f6ller, Hannes Wolf and Sandro Wagner will now take charge of German national team for Tuesday&#39;s friendly against France.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe aim is to find a replacement for Hansi Flick as quickly as possible\u201d, DFB statement confirms. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6KpAO4C7MP\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6KpAO4C7MP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1700884267520139435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The committee agreed that the German national team needs a fresh impetus after the recent disappointing results.&#8221; German FA president Bernd Neuendorf said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going into the European Championship next summer, we need confidence and optimism in the country regarding our team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been one of the most difficult decisions I have had to make during my time in this role because I really respect Hansi Flick and his assistants, both on a professional and personal level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sporting success is of the upmost importance to the DFB, which is why this decision had to be made.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Germany made a flying start under Flick, recording 8 consecutive wins in his opening 8 games after he was appointed in August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>However, a significant dip in form, which culminated in a shock group-stage exit at the World Cup, has seen them record only 3 wins in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hansi Flick has been sacked as Germany&#8217;s head-coach following a disastrous run of results, which saw the Mannschaft\u00a0record only 4 wins in 17 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":458755,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16880,17080],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[19351,21319],"acf":{"announce":"The German board has had enough of the team's recent poor performances","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458756,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458754\/revisions\/458756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458754"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458754"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}