Barcelona summary: Flick, a humane German

Pedri publicly stated at the beginning of the season: "There is much more training now than before. Our physical fitness feels good. There will be no problem with physical fitness after 70 minutes." You should know that Barcelona has persisted until the end with not enough bench depth (the Champions League is only one final away). After playing 120 minutes with Real Madrid in the Cup final, he fought with Inter Milan in the second round for 120 minutes in the second round, and in the 114th minute, Yamal also created a goal-scoring opportunity, but unfortunately Sommer saved the ball with his fingertips. There is a comparison of the seriousness of Barcelona's training this season. Barcelona arranged training at 10 am the second day after the first century war of the season, while Real Madrid, who lost, arranged training for two and a half days later, which made Madrid media even more angry with Ancelotti.

In terms of playing depth, Barcelona is more obvious. For example, Rafina's three-shot knockout against Bayern, the team can still have an advantage in exchanging counterattacks with Real Madrid, and defeated Real Madrid 4-0 in the first century battle. Including Rafinia's last minute turnaround against Benfica, this reflects Flick's idea, which is to hit the opponent's goalkeeper as soon as possible. Flick even had an overcorrection of his thinking of facing the goalkeeper as early as possible. For example, after Barcelona entered November, the team's frequent long and straight passes made the team lose the initiative in possession of the ball to some extent, but in the end the team still found a balance between possession of the ball and playing the game depth.

Flick customized wake-up service for Conde

Former Bayern chairman Rummenigge once commented on Flick, "Flick has Heinx's sensitivity and Guardiola's tactics." Heinx's sensitivity refers to the old coach's closeness to the players and his concern for the players. Although most people do not think that Flick has Guardiola's obsession with tactics, Flick's concern for the players is affirmed. Flick cares about everything about the players, whether the players are doing well, and whether the families are doing well. Barcelona told team reporter Xavi: "Flick is like Guardiola. Guardiola also cares about the players. If he knows that your wife is pregnant, he will ask your wife every day, until some players can no longer stand the coach's greetings every day. Flick is also like this."

Last summer, Flick just signed a contract at Barcelona. At this time, the season has ended. Only Valde, who is recovering from injury in the club, so Flick went to Valde to greet him. During this season, Flick always uses the time he can find out to talk to all the players. Sometimes the conversation takes longer, which involves technical and tactical requirements, and more often the conversation is like a neighbor. Flick has completely adapted to life in Catalonia. He likes the food here. He has several restaurants he often goes to, and he will go downstairs to drink coffee in the cafe in the neighborhood and buy things at the supermarket by himself. Flick is very humane, and everyone's feelings are the same. This season, Barcelona changed to a logistics service provider, and the chef who cooked for a team was replaced. However, Flick told the chef that she would not go anywhere. She had become a member of the team. In the end, Barcelona changed the supplier and did not change the chef, but the club directly signed a contract with the chef.

Flick is as human as the Southern Europeans, but he also maintains the principled and rigorous nature of the Germans. Especially in the matter of on-time, Flick is famously serious. He has been too angry at the young players who are late on the training ground and has also allowed Comte to sit on the bench three times because Comte is late for attending the pre-match technical and tactical meeting. This season, Barcelona has adopted another set of disciplines for late players, not using a fine, but using it as a penalty. This rule cannot be changed after it is set. In order to avoid Comte being late in important competitions and missing the game, Flick customized a wake-up service for Comte. A member of the coaching team always knocked on Comte's door before the tactical meeting to remind him that it was time to go down to participate in the tactical meeting.

It is worth mentioning that Flick's punctual request is not only for the team, but also for the club's executive and management. Every time he agrees with the senior management to meet, if the senior management is late, Flick will be angry. Flick thinks it is a waste of his time and disrespect for him. This has changed the work culture of the club's senior management, at least it has changed the work culture between the senior management and Flick. According to the Latin culture, being late for 15 minutes is not considered late, it is a buffer period, but it is not here for Flick. The agreed meeting must be present on time.

In addition to winning the Spanish domestic treble, Barcelona reporters were surprised to find that Flick did something that neither Guardiola nor Cruyff had done, that is, everyone discovered that the factional media dispute between Barcelona had disappeared. Flick was just not controversial among the fans, and was a good person in all competing media, and there was no controversy. Flick stayed close to all media in English and did not create controversy at the press conference, nor became an enemy of any media when he was not a friend of any media. This was probably the most peaceful year in Barcelona's century history, which may be as Rummenigge said, "Flick always brings quietness after a storm."