Xavi Hernandez It’s already the past at FC Barcelona. This Friday the club announced the dismissal of the coach and, in the absence of official confirmation, Hansi Flick He will be the one who takes charge of the Barça bench next season.
The Barça club had been negotiating with Flick for several days, and although all the details of the operation have not yet come to light, from the newspaper Sport They have announced that the German will have a salary 30% lower than what Xavi earned: Barcelona’s budget for its new coach and his assistants would be 12.6 million euros.
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However, here we will focus on the performances of the German coaches who have been on the FC Barcelona bench: who are they and how have they fared? We review background.
Hennes Weisweiler(head coach of FC Barcelona) and Johan Cruyff (FC Barcelona) and Hiroshi Ninomiya(head coach of MItsubishi, Japan)
Hennes Weisweiler invited Ninomiya to join FC Barcelona training camp, Duisburg 14 Aug 1975
Photo by Masahide Tomikoshi / TOMIKOSHI PHOTOGRAPHY pic.twitter.com/Pp8io0Zl0L— tphoto (@tphoto2005) January 12, 2020
The first German coach that Barça had was Hennes Weisweiler, who back in 1975 was one of the most prestigious coaches in Europe. He arrived at the club that year after having triumphed managing Borussia Mönchengladbach, winning the UEFA Cup in the 1974/75 season.
Of great character, he clashed with the opinion of Johan Cruyff, who was one of the biggest idols at that time within the club, so both the team and the fans took his side, which led to him being replaced mid-season by Laureano Ruiz.
The second German coach in the history of the “Blaugrana” club, and so far the last, managed to make the institution win the Cup Winners’ Cup in 1982, but lost a League that seemed practically served: the team sank in the final stretch, with the physically worn out footballers.
The particularity? He also started the 1982-83 season, for which he managed Diego Armando Maradona at Barça. However, he never had a good rapport with the Argentine star, and he also faced the other star of the team, also a German. Bernd Schuster, who one day called him “drunk.”
He was fired and replaced by the Argentine César Luis Menotti.
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