This is any player’s worst nightmare. Paint your training years to succeed in the professional game only to see how your career ends prematurely with an injury. This nightmare has become a truth for Hansi Flick, Thomas Tuchel and Julian Nagelsmann.
The 3 Germans will make history this week, fitting the first trio of a country to make the same semi-final series since the European Champions League Cup in 1992-93. They take over many other clubs in those days, but their successes can be attributed to their training days in their home country and even more to their playing days.
Flick is the older man, in terms of age, if he does not delight as a more sensible club coach, and also had the longest and most illustrious player career of the three, playing almost twice in the Bundesliga before being forced to play. Hang the tacos at 29. At this level he had already won the league four times with Bayern and contested a European Cup final.
When Flick, now 55, played in that 1987 defeat to Porto, TuchelArray 46, was about to sign for the Augsburg youth team. But he would never make it, departing early to place a normal starting position in the SSV Ulm regional league. Just as he had begun to progress, a knee injury forced him to retire at the age of 25. It was even more complicated for Nagelsmann, knee disorders forced him to retire while still in Augsburg’s youth education.
“I felt an idea at the time that I had ted all my youth, which was for nothing. It’s just terrible,” he told Joe.co.uk a few years ago.
Start
The head of RB Leipzig, 33, took courses in business management and sports science as he struggled to settle for the loss of the one thing he had fought for. But the guy he’s in the first semi-final on Tuesday has presented him with a way back to the game. Tuchel coached the Augsburg reserve team in 2007-8 and needed someone to identify his opponents, recalled Nagelsguyn’s passionate football brain during his brief stint at the club. “It was my way of training,” Nagelsguyn said later. “I learned a lot from him.”
Tuchel also praised Nagelsmann, whom he described as “very curious”, which served him well in the course of Fussball Lehrer (football teacher) organized through the German Football Federation (DFB), which ended in 2013. Nagelsmann finished the moment in his class. former Schalke coach Domenico Tedesco, who now coaches Spartak Moscow. Tuchel and Flick are also graduates, as are Jurgen Klopp, who has reached the final two Champions League finals.
The 10-month course gives emerging coaches the opportunity to download the UEFA Pro license, the highest education badge in Europe and the minimum requirement for jobs in the 3 most sensitive German divisions. But with written and practical exams, mock educational sessions and more than 800 hours of categories (UEFA asks only 240 hours), this is probably the most rigorous control that budding bosses achieve anywhere in the world.
While Tuchel and Nagelsmann had their big opportunities in Mainz and Hoffenheim after internal promotions of youth education roles, another notable feature of the German educational model, Flick took a less busy path. After the end of his professional player career, he played for some time with Victoria Bammental in the fit amatuer before taking over as coach. His tenure there included relegation, but caught the attention of the nearby town of Hoffenheim, which had just begun an adventure that would lead from hard-to-understand regional leagues to the Bundesliga and the Champions League, thanks in a giant component to the coin. Dietmar Hopp.
Learn the trade
A spell under Giovanni Trapattoni at Red Bull Salzburg proved influential in the progression of defensive systems, but it was at the DFB that Flick began to improve the exact taste and urge that he is now about to be the best. Flick joined the German national team after the World Cup at home in 2006 and with Joachim Lew when the country won the trophy in 2014, after which he became the organization’s sporting director. Him in the background but constantly learning.
This ongoing education has been used in a devastating way, with Flick leading Bayern from the stalemate of Niko Kovac’s reign to the doubles state and Champions League favourite, and Lyon will arrive on Wednesday. But it wasn’t just the tactical inventions that made a difference.
Flick communicates with his players
“He’s a high-level human being and has a wonderful feeling for us,” said Jerome Boateng, who, along with his 2014 World Cup-winning partner, Thomas Muller, rediscovered his form with Flick. “Hansi is very respectful and professional with us players, with those who play and those who do not. It gives everyone the feeling that he’s on the team. And that’s very much for a club like Bayern.”
This understanding with the players was also key to Nagelsmann: “I am firmly that if you need to be a successful coach, empathy and concern for the user behind the player is more vital than any tactical aspect,” he once said.
Relationships matter
Empathy is one of the qualities demonstrated through Tuchel in the conditions of maximum stress following the bombing of the Borussia Dortmund bus in 2017. While this revealed cracks in his relationship with the club hierarchy that eventually led him to his departure, his players praised his reaction to them. But controlling egos in a club like PSG is another matter.
The arrival of Kylian Mbappé was PSG’s quarter-final victory
The meeting between Leipzig, subsidized through Red Bull, and Qatar-owned PSG, is not a meeting for romantics, however, the slightly different tactical approaches of German bosses deserve to give rise to attractive competition. Nagelsmann is about the press and tries to force the opponent to make mistakes in the most sensitive field. And while Tuchel is also an advocate of the taste that has come to delineate trendy German football, the specific demands of the PSG have meant that it has rarely become too dependent on its stars, especially Kylian Mbappé and Neymar, and lacks the kind of cohesion. Nagelsmann’s sides are displayed.
Anyway, one of those two Germans will coach a definitive Champions League and Flick, who has this subject pending his playing days, is pleased to see his compatriots in the same stadium.
“I’m naturally satisfied with Thomas and also by Julian,” he said. “I know for myself what it’s like to succeed in the semi-finals. They are the most productive club teams, the most productive clubs in Europe. You’re very happy to be here.”
While this may be true, none of those 3 will be satisfied if the story ends there.
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