How Hansi Flick got sacked as Germany manager after Japan defeat

How Hansi Flick got sacked: Bosses decided manager’s fate while he told fans he would fight on… and caretaker Rudi Voller wanted him to STAY – before he left Germany’s five-star hotel in shuttle bus

• Hansi Flick was sacked on Sunday following their 4-1 loss to Japan a day prior
• Euro 2024 hosts Germany have won just four out of their last 17 games 
• His departures comes despite Rudi Voller wanting him to stay on as manager 

Hansi Flick was sacked as manager of Germany following a dreadful run of four wins in 17 games for the Euro 2024 hosts.

Huge questions were asked after they suffered a humiliating 4-1 loss to Japan in Wolfsburg on Saturday night.

There had been big hopes for Flick to succeed in the position after a successful time as manager of Bayern Munich.

Flick vowed to fight on after the defeat, but his time as manager of his country ended in a five-star hotel on Sunday in the city where his last game provided an embarrassing defeat. 

BILD have revealed that he was informed of his decision by German Football Association (DFB) president Bernd Neuendorf and national team director Rudi Voller.

Hansi Flick was sacked as manager of Germany after a rotten run of four wins in 17 games

Germany’s heavy 4-1 defeat to Japan in Wolfsburg on Saturday night proved too much for Flick

Flick vowed to fight on after the defeat, but he was informed by national team director Rudi Voller (right) and DFB president Bernd Neuendorf on Sunday that he had been sacked

The players were then summoned to the five-star Ritz Carlton hotel in Wolfsburg, where they were informed of his sacking before he said his goodbyes.

At 5.23pm, three DFB shuttle buses left the hotel through the rear of the exit of the hotel, with Flick and his assistant coach Marcus Sorg departing the German camp ahead of their friendly with France on Tuesday.

It’s said that Voller had fought for Flick not to be sacked immediately, making a ‘strong case’ for not getting rid of a manager between two games.

However, it was Voller who revealed that talks would take place on Sunday, after he said losing 4-1 to Japan was a ‘disgrace’ and in a message to the players said they ‘can’t s*** their pants now’. 

He said after the loss to Japan: ‘We’re all still in shock. Losing 4-1 is a disgrace.

‘We all should take a good look at ourselves and then see what happens next. We would all do well to sleep on it tonight.

‘I just spoke to Hansi – he’s deeply affected. We’ll talk tomorrow about why that happened. That was an embarrassment.’

But 24 hours later, after he was unable to convince other German officials to keep Flick, he spoke of the importance of bringing in a coach who can bring them back to the ‘level they expect’.

Voller who will take over against France, had told other officials that Flick should carry on in the position for Tuesday’s friendly

The decision was made at the Ritz Carlton hotel where the German team is staying in Wolfsburg, with Flick leaving in a DFB shuttle bus at 5.23pm

He said: ‘I will therefore temporarily look after the national team for the one game against France with Hannes Wolf by my side.

‘The most urgent task will then be to hire a national coach who will quickly realign our team and prepare it for the big European Championship tournament next year, from which we all hope that there will be positive impulses for German football and also for our entire country.

‘A national coach who will then, in the long term, raise the national team back to the level that we know and expect from it.’

When speaking to reporters after Germany’s loss to Japan, Flick looked like a man that knew the writing was on the wall, despite outwardly expressing that he was the ‘right man for the job’.

After the match he told reporters: ‘I know in football there is a dynamic and I cannot forecast what will happen but from my side we try everything to prepare the team well.’

Germany hope to turn around their form before they host the Euro 2024 championships

Julian Nagelsmann, who replaced Flick at Bayern Munich, could be set to do so again for Germany

‘I think we are doing a good job and I think I am (the right man for the job),’ he said when asked specifically about his future. 

But pressure built on the DFB with fans, as well as media outlets like BILD calling for his sacking.

BILD brutally described him as the ‘worst national coach of all time’ while saying they were lucky to be Euro 2024 hosts as they ‘probably wouldn’t have qualified’.

Jurgen Klopp is believed to be Germany’s ideal man for the job, though the Liverpool manager is not available at this time.

Julian Nagelsmann is described as the current top candidate, while the likes of Eintracht Frankfurt’s Matthias Sammer and Matthias Sammer – who has not managed since 2005 but has held behind-the-scenes role with Germany and Bayern Munich since then – have also been linked to the job. 

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