It is not a Bayern player, nor a Dortmund professional, who gave the national coach Hansi Flick a guarantee that he would take him more than four months before the World Cup. The coach praises Gladbach’s Jonas Hofmann. And also his new coach.
Prominent visitors to the training camp of Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach at Tegernsee: National coach Hansi Flick stopped by Rottach-Egern together with U21 coach Antonio Di Salvo and gave national player Jonas Hofmann a free pass for the World Cup in Qatar (November 21 to November 18). December). “If you see the last games, you have to say that he’s already set,” said Flick, who also used his visit to get to know the new Gladbach coach Daniel Farke better.
“I followed his path in the Premier League, it was just great. The way he wants to play football is also very close to our game,” said Flick about Farke. The personal exchange is therefore “important” to him and is “very close to his heart”.
Hofmann had played eleven international matches under Flick since last September and scored four goals. Especially in the four Nations League games in June, he showed strong performances, scoring two goals and taking a penalty. Due to his versatility, the 29-year-old is now indispensable for the national team and, according to Flick, “a constant”. In the games for the DFB he played both on the right flank and as a right-back. In the past Bundesliga season, he was Borussia’s top league goalscorer with twelve goals.
The national coach will continue to visit the clubs’ training camps. “I’ll visit a few more teams. I’ll visit Wolfsburg in Seefeld on Monday. I’m looking forward to Niko Kovac, who I’ll see again then,” said Flick, who was initially Kovac’s assistant coach in Munich and after his release rise to head coach.
