Hansi Flick is publishing a book.
In it he admits that his wife was seriously ill.
The difficult time made him a different person, as he explains.
Bammental – Hansi Flick really takes off as a trainer.
In November 2019 he began his career as a professional coach at FC Bayern and won six titles with the Munich team.
He is now a successful national coach and, after the sovereign World Cup qualification, is confident about the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
In his book, Flick makes public strokes of fate in the family
As assistant to Joachim Löw, he celebrated the 2014 World Cup.
In terms of sport, Flick is in the fast lane, and he is also very happy in his private life.
Flick and his wife Silke have been married for 35 years and met as teenagers.
Together they have two daughters.
Flick once revealed that Ms. Silke is his most important advisor.
Otherwise, little that is private is made public.
It is all the more remarkable that the football teacher is now revealing a very personal stroke of fate.
On September 18, his book "In the moment - about success, the beauty of the game and what really counts in life" will be published.
In it, Flick describes how he and his wife received a bitter diagnosis twelve years ago.
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National coach Hansi Flick is interviewed after the game.
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Flick admires his wife Silke how calmly she dealt with the cancer
After the 2010 World Cup, “Silke was diagnosed with breast cancer,” the 57-year-old writes in the book.
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“I was scared like I had never felt before.
Being there for her and the children was even more important than usual," Flick continues.
During this phase, he "received one-time support from the DFB (Flick was assistant coach of the German national team at the time, editor's note) and was able to withdraw for a certain time".
He still admires his wife to this day, "with what strength and inner calm she mastered the difficult situation."
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After his wife was diagnosed with cancer: Flick shed a lot of tears
"I lay in bed with tears in my eyes much more often than she did," admits Flick.
This phase of his life "taught him humility and gratitude".
It changes something in you when you have your own transience and death mirrored.
That's why he's never taken interpersonal encounters and relationships since this stroke of fate "for granted," explained Flick.
He also deals differently with sporting bankruptcies today.
"There are things that are bigger and more important than football." Much bigger than his saddest moment as a Bayern coach.
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