In future, the national players are to receive more support between training courses. National coach Hansi Flick and his team are developing a special programme for this purpose.
“It is important to us that the players, even when we are not together with the national team, work on what we have given them individually. For example, on tactical understanding or on the subject of standard situations,” Flick told the newspaper FAZ.
This is also done through group coaching, “sometimes online, but also sometimes in such a way that the players implement it on site in their clubs after consultation with the club coaches “ The team is divided into three groups: Defence, Centre, Storm. They will be accompanied by Flick and his co-trainers Marcus Sorg and Danny Röhl. “We will rotate so that each of us has worked with each player at some point,” the national coach emphasised. It could also happen that the new standards coach Mads Buttgereit “gives one or the other some homework”.
National team is always, the whole year, not just the 14 days you are together in individual measures or during tournaments.
Flick expects the measure to further professionalise the team. “It is elementary that we create optimal conditions in all details and areas for the most important team in the country,” he said.“I don’t know it any differently from Bayern Munich. “
Flick’s team and club coaches “tick in the same way “
Flick does not believe that this could lead to differences with the club coaches. “When I sum up the first few months, it has become clear that the club coaches and we DFB coaches basically think alike and assess the players in a similar way“. For the players, it is important to know “that their club coach exchanges ideas with the coaches of the national team,” explained the 56-year-old.
To this end, the national coach will forego a training course with his World Cup candidates during the Bundesliga break from 24 January to 3 February. During this time, the clubs only have to release their players from America and Asia for World Cup qualifiers still to be played there.
On Thursday, the DFB team plays against Liechtenstein in Wolfsburg, before the World Cup qualifiers are concluded on Sunday with the guest game in Armenia. Germany have already qualified for the World Cup tournament in Qatar.