FC Bayern Munich has found its dream coach.
But Julian Nagelsmann is also in great demand elsewhere.
For example in Spain.
Munich – Julian Nagelsmann is a coach of superlatives.
Extremely young, extremely successful, extremely goal-oriented.
At the age of 34 he has already managed to land on the chair of his favorite club.
And there, at FC Bayern Munich*, he wants to stay for a few more years.
Maybe even ten?
Clear!
“The only question is whether the club can imagine that.
I'm not someone who has to move all the time.
Moving really excites me.
If I can stay here for ten years now, I would also be satisfied," he said at a press conference in December.
Because Nagelsmann already has a plan for his future life.
Most recently, he said in an interview: "I started competitive sports when I was 14, studied after high school, played football at the same time and then became a coach.
I don't need a sabbatical, I'm full of energy.
But if I don't stop coaching until I'm 70, I don't know if I can still start surfing in Portugal.” Nagelsmann loves a number of other sports besides football and feels at home in nature.
Of course he wants to discover as much of it as possible.
And so a coach's classic path to staying active into old age may not necessarily be their Plan A.
Julian Nagelsmann: Bayern coach is a topic at Real Madrid
You will not like to hear these thoughts at Real Madrid.
Because that's exactly where Nagelsmann should end up one day, if President Florentino Perez has his way - and better today than tomorrow!
Julian Nagelsman
FC Bayern Munich
Born: July 23, 1987 (age 34), Landsberg am Lech
Previous clubs (as a professional coach): 1899 Hoffenheim, RB Leipzig
Contract with FC Bayern Munich until: June 30, 2026
According to the Spanish portal "Onda Futbol", the royals are said to be dissatisfied with the work of coach Carlo Ancelotti - active in Munich from 2016 to 2017.
Allegedly, Perez doesn't like how the white ballet dances.
The gameplay left a lot to be desired.
That's why the real boss is apparently already thinking about a successor.
Even more: He has already found it - in Nagelsmann!
Julian Nagelsmann to Real Madrid?
There was contact before
The interest is not really new, the Madrilenians had already put out feelers to Nagelsmann in Hoffenheim's times.
Back then, in 2018, it even became quite concrete, as Nagelsmann once revealed in a Sport-Bild interview.
“It's not like I had a contract ready to be signed at the time.
Real wanted to talk to me to get to know me.
I said it doesn't make sense at the time.
It would have been only three weeks until the start of training, I could hardly speak Spanish.
That would have met neither my nor Real’s requirements.”
Will there be a collaboration at some point?
Nagelsmann should feel flattered, but he certainly has other things on his mind at the moment: for example FC Bayern's mini-crisis.
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