Something is happening at the DFB: The new national coach Hansi Flick gets support from Benedikt Höwedes - he is supposed to become a team manager.
Will he take on Bierhoff's legacy?
Frankfurt am Main - A world champion returns to the national team * - but not as a player.
Benedikt Höwedes is the new team manager of the DFB *.
First of all, the ex-Schalke should go through a trainee program in which he gets to know all areas of team management.
The DFB officially announced this on Wednesday.
In perspective, he could even be the successor to DFB sports director Oliver Bierhoff *, whose contract expires in 2024.
So does Bierhoff breed his own heir to the throne in Höwedes?
First of all, the world champion should be the link between the team and management.
At the same time, he is attending a UEFA management seminar, which lasts for a total of two years.
Benedikt Höwedes returns to the national team - will he inherit Bierhoff?
The world champion also works for Amazon as a Champions League expert.
"For me, three incredibly exciting tasks are starting, which I am nevertheless very much looking forward to," said Höwedes of
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"I look at football from very different angles and stick to it practically and theoretically," he says happily.
In 2020 he ended his active career.
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Benedikt Höwedes ended his active career - now he wants to work in football management.
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There is another personnel change in the national team: After goalkeeping coach Andy Köpke announced his departure, his successor has now been determined: The Swiss Andreas Kronenberg is moving from SC Freiburg * to the DFB.
Hansi Flick wants to inspire fans again: "National coach is a huge responsibility"
Flick's first sporting task will be to get the World Cup ticket for Qatar.
There are still seven qualifying games on the program until the end of the year.
The game begins in September against Liechtenstein in St. Gallen (2nd), in Stuttgart against Armenia (5th) and against Iceland in Reykjavik (8th).
Flick wants to play an "exciting football" again *.
“For me, the national coach is an obligation, a huge responsibility,” he said.
"For me there is no age where it is said that from then on he will no longer be a national player," he also clarified.
Thomas Müller and Mats Hummels will be happy to hear that.
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