{"id":140391,"date":"2022-11-27T00:07:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T00:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/flick-flies-solo-to-defy-fifa-as-germany-prepare-for-crucial-spain-clash-germany\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T00:07:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T00:07:16","slug":"flick-flies-solo-to-defy-fifa-as-germany-prepare-for-crucial-spain-clash-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/flick-flies-solo-to-defy-fifa-as-germany-prepare-for-crucial-spain-clash-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Flick flies solo to defy Fifa as Germany prepare for crucial Spain clash | Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"
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H<\/span><\/span>ansi Flick sat alone at the top table of press conference room 1, a visible demonstration of an isolated Germany manager under pressure. The reason for his solo appearance may result in a fine from Fifa, but will be worth every Swiss franc should it help the four-time world champions pull away from a humiliating early exit.<\/span><\/p>\n

Things are done differently in Qatar, as you may have heard, and media duties are no exception. A manager plus a player must appear at a press conference the day before a game \u2013 only at this World Cup that does not take place at the stadium or a team training ground, but at Fifa’s main media center in Doha. For Germany, that involves a 210km round trip from their Al Shamal training base on the northern tip of Qatar. For Flick, who knows defeat to an in-form Spain on Sunday will spell almost certain elimination from the tournament, that is no way to prepare for the most loaded assignment of his international reign. So he showed up alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can’t expect a player to come along and drive for three hours. It’s a very important match so I told them I’m going to come and do it on my own,\u201d Germany’s manager said. \u201cEvery player in the 26 is important so I asked them not to come along because it is important they devote energy to the training session.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are disappointed. We have a very good media center [at the training ground] and it would have been possible for a player [to come] if the press conference had been held closer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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