Flick makes the stroke of fate in the family public: "Fear like I've never felt before"
Created: 09/16/2022, 13:52
By: Momir Takac
Hansi Flick is considered level-headed and humble.
He wasn't always.
It was only when his wife Silke fell ill with cancer that he became a different person.
Bammental – Hansi Flick is on the road to success as a coach.
In November 2019 he started at FC Bayern, winning six titles straight away in his first position as head coach of a professional team.
He has been the national coach for almost two years and can look back on a confident World Cup qualification.
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As assistant coach to Joachim Löw, he won the world championship title in 2014.
In terms of sport, things are going like clockwork, and privately he is also on cloud nine.
Flick and his wife Silke have been married since 1987 and they have two daughters together.
Flick once revealed that Ms. Silke is his most important advisor.
But other than that, little is known about his private life.
It is all the more surprising that the 57-year-old has now gone public with a very intimate stroke of fate.
His book "In the moment - about success, the beauty of the game and what really counts in life" will be published soon.
In it he tells of his wife's serious illness twelve years ago.
The current national coach Hansi Flick leaves nothing to his wife Silke.
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Flick is more relaxed about sporting defeats today: "There are things that are more important than football"
After the 2010 World Cup, "Silke was diagnosed with breast cancer," writes Flick in the book, which will be available from September 18.
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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," he 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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Flick about his wife’s cancer: “I lay in bed much more often in the evenings with tears in my eyes”
"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 now also interprets sporting defeats differently.
"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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