Official assumption of office First PK as national coach: DFB introduces Nagelsmann at midday
The home European Championship 2024 in view: Julian Nagelsmann will be officially introduced as national coach on Friday
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The DFB has found its ideal candidate: Julian Nagelsmann is taking over as national coach. It will be officially launched sooner than expected.
Julian Nagelsmann will follow stern-Information officially presented as the new national coach this Friday afternoon. The “Bild” newspaper also reports on the personnel. Before that, the DFB committees should clarify the final details and then the contract will be signed. The DFB confirmed a PK appointment at 12 p.m. in Frankfurt.
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Hansi Flick’s successor doesn’t have much time. And the starting conditions are anything but ideal: After a botched World Cup and a disastrous 1:4 against Japan, the 2:1 win over runner-up world champions France under Rudi Völler was just an encouragement. The reality in world football looks like this nine months before the home European Championships: three tournaments in a row have been botched and they are in 15th place in the world rankings – surrounded by Morocco, Switzerland, Colombia and Uruguay.
Julian Nagelsmann’s DFB premiere in October
Former successful trainer Ottmar Hitzfeld considers him to be “the best choice of trainers available on the market”. Nagelsmann, who was born in Landsberg in Upper Bavaria, is “an outstanding top coach,” Hitzfeld told the “skysport.de” portal. “Extremely professionally competent with a lot of assertiveness.”
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He will have to prove all of this quickly. On October 14th (9 p.m.) the national team will play against the USA on its trip to the 2026 World Cup hosts in East Hartford, three days later Mexico will be another sporting benchmark in Philadelphia. At the beginning of October, the coach will soon decide on his first squad – and will have to answer many open questions.
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