{"id":2140,"date":"2023-09-10T19:39:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T18:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.net\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2026-09-04T00:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T23:36:18","slug":"german-football-federation-sacks-hansi-flick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=2140","title":{"rendered":"German Football Federation Sacks Hansi Flick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The German <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-external\" data-dzsl=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Football<\/a> Federation (DFB) has sacked Hansi Flick as head coach of the <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=70573\">national team<\/a>, following a humiliating 4-1 defeat to Japan on Saturday in Wolfsburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rudi V\u00f6ller, the DFB&#8217;s sporting director, will take temporary charge of the &#8220;Mannschaft&#8221; until a new coach is appointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flick, who was sacked following the match, said he believed he was still the &#8220;right man to lead the team&#8221; despite the loss to Japan in a friendly international.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flick took over as manager of the German national team in 2021, replacing Joachim L\u00f6w, who spent 15 years at the helm and led the team to the 2014 <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=70098\">World Cup<\/a> title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Germany will host the next edition of the European Championship in 2024, and the team will face France in a friendly match on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German Football Federation (DFB) has sacked Hansi Flick as head coach of the national team, following a humiliating 4-1 defeat to Japan on Saturday in Wolfsburg. Rudi V\u00f6ller, the DFB&#8217;s sporting director, will take temporary charge of the &#8220;Mannschaft&#8221; until a new coach is appointed. Flick, who was sacked following the match, said he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70890,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/70890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}