Criticism from Bayern coach: Flick and swipe against the DFB

Hansi Flick has good relations with the German football Association (DFB). Finally, the current coach of FC Bayern state from August 2006 to January 2017 even in the largest specialist sports Association in the world under contract. For eight years he was the assistant of national coach Joachim Loew after the world Cup 2014 title Flick sports Director, before he retired at his own request. After the 2:1-victory of FC Bayern münchen in the semi-finals of the DFB Cup against Eintracht Frankfurt Flick was, however, a little side blow against the old employer. He doesn't like the time setting of the game fell.

Tobias Rabe

editor responsible for sports Online.

"I Usually discuss the game fixtures a little, because you can eh do nothing," he said on Wednesday evening in the ARD. He think it is however "unfortunate", between two of the Bundesliga to have games like the one against Bayer Leverkusen on last Saturday, won by the Munich-based 4:2, and against Borussia Mönchengladbach this Saturday (18.30 clock in the F. A. Z.-liveticker for the football Bundesliga and Sky) in a Cup game. "Maybe you could make a semi-final, similar to how it plans to the Champions League after the round, to focus only on the championship," said Flick.

He said this from the beginning, internally as, "but, unfortunately, came at the DFB none on the idea of the implement. This is so that you have to accept,“ said Flick. The Bavaria meet at the 4. July in the final in Berlin's Olympic stadium on Bayer Leverkusen. The criticism surprised a little, after all, they are accustomed to in Munich, every three days to play through its obligations in Germany and in the European Cup. Possibly, but the tired performance in the second half, promoted, as in the case of the Bayern visible the forces schwanden, Flicks appetite for public confrontation with the DFB.

the reason for the lawsuit would have also had the Frankfurter opponents, who were charged more than the Munich. By the League-played in Bremen in the previous week to the best of the Concord ride since the beginning of the game operation in the Corona-crisis the third game of the week, while Munich are now two. A shift in the Cup semi-finals on a date to the Bundesliga at the end would have been for the fourth-League club Saarbrücken even more problematic. The Mavericks, who lost on Tuesday against Leverkusen 0:3, has not played since mid-March, because the season has been canceled in the Regionalliga.

stop Long Flick with the unpleasant termination but. Rather, he looked ahead to the Grand Finale – and wished again that Fans watching in the stadium can have in a duel, the ends actually, the rush of the end of the season in German football. "I don't know if that can be now so advanced that in Berlin, possibly viewers. I can't imagine it, almost,“ he said on the possible admission of at least some of the stadium visitors. "We simply have the conditions that are there now. We have to accept it.“

The Olympic stadium is the final in a Cup, always with more than 70,000 spectators sold out. Due to the Coronavirus to the Bundesliga season and the DFB must-Cup-competition only with mind games to be played in empty stadiums to the end. Flick is, however, convinced that the duel of the title defender with the Challenger Leverkusen is at least sporting a great football evening. "Bayer is a team that plays a very beautiful football. Therefore, the neutral spectators can look forward safely to a beautiful game.“