Separation at Salihamidzic?
Bayern boss is said to have left his wife after 28 years
Created: 05/07/2022, 1:50 p.m
By: Jose Carlos Menzel Lopez
A picture from days together: Hasan Salihamidzic and his wife Esther Copado at an FC Bayern basketball game in 2019. © Frank Hoermann/Imago
Hasan Salihamidzic, sports director at FC Bayern Munich, has apparently separated from his wife Esther Copado – after 28 years.
Munich – In terms of sport, Hasan Salihamidzic was at least able to make the season with FC Bayern satisfactory by winning the tenth championship in a row, but apparently things are not going too well for the record champions’ sports director.
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reports, the 45-year-old ex-player is said to have separated from his longtime wife Esther Copado – after 28 years as a couple.
The Bayern boss is said to have already moved out of the common house.
It was football that brought Salihamidzic and Copado together.
Both met in 1994 when the ex-kicker played with her brother Francisco Copado (also went goal-hunting for SpVgg Unterhaching) at Hamburger SV.
Hasan Salihamidzic: Love from the Bayern sports director?
Four years later, Salihamidzic moved to Bayern and the couple moved to Munich.
In 2007, after 13 years of a happy relationship, marriage finally followed, the children Lara June (16), Nick (19, last noticed with deleted transfer tweets) and Selina (21) crowned happiness.
When asked where the secret of their long-term partnership lies, Copado answered in a joint interview with Salihamidzic as part of the opening of their yoga studio in Munich in 2016: "Love and respect.
We appreciate each other, love and respect each other very much.
What is very important: we trust each other.
We have a relationship of equals.
Everyone gives the other the necessary freedom and gives the other the necessary support.”
The Salihamidzic family fell victim to terrible hate messages
However, the past few weeks in particular have been anything but easy.
After Bayern lost to Villarreal in the Champions League, the family fell victim to terrible hate messages online, including even death threats if Salihamidzic didn't leave the club.
Son Nick, who is under contract with the FCB amateurs, made the news public via Instagram.
Salihamidzic himself did not want to comment on the separation.