Hansi Flick breaks FIFA guidelines by dealing with press duties alone

Germany supervisor Hansi Flick defied FIFA guidelines as he sat alone for the press convention forward of their essential Group E conflict towards Spain on Sunday.

The FIFA guidelines counsel a participant alongside the supervisor should seem at a press convention the day earlier than a recreation, however Flick instructed his gamers to deal with coaching.

Since all media briefings need to be at FIFA’s important media centre in Doha, the German coach needed to journey over 200 km from their Al Shamal coaching base for the pre-match press convention.

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“We 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,” Germany’s supervisor instructed the reporters.

The absence of a participant will price Germany a giant advantageous however Flick is simply nervous in regards to the well-being of his gamers.

“Every participant within the 26 is essential so I requested them to not come alongside as a result of it will be significant they dedicate power to the coaching session.

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“We are disappointed. We have a very good media centre [at the training ground] and it would have been possible for a player [to come] if the press conference had been held closer.”

According to The Guardian, “The DFB, Germany’s football federation asked to relocate the press conference but FIFA refused, fearing it would set an inconvenient precedent.”

The four-time World Cup champions have been upset by Japan 2-1 on Wednesday.

“We are optimistic,” mentioned Flick.

“We need to be courageous and consider in our high quality. We need to follow our recreation as a result of we’ve got the standard. We belief the group. We’re constructive and simply actually need to see that we method this recreation on Sunday towards Spain positively.

“It’s simply important to deal with defeats, but also to clear your head and focus on the new task, and that’s our goal, to get the team to the point where they naturally believe that they can push this thing in the right direction on Sunday.”

Spain, in the meantime, has solely misplaced as soon as in its earlier seven matches towards Germany. This would be the fifth assembly between the groups on the World Cup and Spain gained the final outing, 1-0 within the semifinals of the 2010 match.