Hans-Dieter Flick

[Porque]

Me and @Birdy did it way way back.


And @Rassvet agreed with us. That's pretty much it.

June 2022

Interesting (slight tangent) on Klopp at Liverpool is that Laporta's first choice was not Barca DNA but German coaching lineage in Flick.

Perhaps not now, but if Xavi only reaches modest success (or even failure) and when the amigos are out, coupled with Flick wanting club football again, I wonder if everything alinged that we could go that route again.

A bit of a long shot admittedly, but wonder how we could shape up with that route now that we are passing the financial limitations of last year.

August 17 2020

This. If Messi moved to Germany, playing under Flick and surrounded by the hardworking Bayern players, using their nutritionists and having no amigos to pad him, you would see an elite Messi again. In 3 weeks he would be eating his Sauerkraut, drinking his milk before bedtime and running like a Fruhlingshuhn.

Collecting my admission certificate

 

[iniestaGOAT]

Staff please do your job and ban these dumbasses talking about random shit on Flick thread.

Barcaforum admins for once in your miserable lives do something useful.

 

[CatalinR10]

Dont be so humble, you were already since the wc win 2014 pro-Hansi ✅️🤣

It was a nice cold autumn in 96 , nothing out of the ordinary. I was minding my own business drinking a beer in a pub in Heidelberg. A guy came in the pub with a football equipment from a team that I didn't knew until then and complimented my Cruyff jersey.

He said he admires Barcelona a lot and told me he plays for Victoria Bammental . After talking a bit with him I noticed that he was intelligent and really sharp , already a great tactician but he was lacking a bit of trust in himself. My idea that he should try a coaching career was received with a bit of pessimism but I told him that he should start giving it a chance by being also a coach in the team that he is now and see where life takes him from there.

10 years later , I see him with a job in the German national team.

28 years later he's the coach of Barcelona and so far mauling teams left and right.

You are welcome Barcaforum.

 

[Barcaman]

What also surprised me is how he managed to bridge the language barrier so easily and forge great relationship with entire team. Which, to be honest, was still reeling from losing Xavi.

 

[Fati_Future_BallonDor]

What also surprised me is how he managed to bridge the language barrier so easily and forge great relationship with entire team. Which, to be honest, was still reeling from losing Xavi.

Yeah and we discussed if he will be able to communicate with our players 🤣

He had started to learn spanish a few months ago, wait some months until he will give us interviews on spanish 😎

 

[Loki]

Yeah and we discussed if he will be able to communicate with our players 🤣

He had started to learn spanish a few months ago, wait some months until he will give us interviews on spanish 😎

You don't need to be Oppenheimer to learn a few hundred football related words and mix some english in between to be able to communicate. And the body language is also as important as the vocal one and that is thankfully international. A hug here, a smile there gives a player a good feeling if it's honest. And if he really needs help, there is always the translator near him.
The language problems were overstated.

 

[Porque]

Yeah and we discussed if he will be able to communicate with our players 🤣

He had started to learn spanish a few months ago, wait some months until he will give us interviews on spanish 😎

I'm presuming that the way the training sessions, professionalism and structure was setup was a breath of fresh air for all the players.

That can win over the players more than any words could. And of course the results on the pitch only served to validate and encourage this.