DFB gets "Vorendi-National Player" Höwedes: Post in TeM Management

Benedikt Höwedes returns to the national team. The former world champion is strengthening the team management.

World Champion Benedikt Höwedes becomes a prominent apprentice. The 33-year-old estimated as a team player and fighter should be strongly tackled with the rebellion of the crashed German national team. As a "link between management and team", DFB Director Expects Oliver Bierhoff from Höwedes 'Important Impulses'. After all, this was "sporty as a character always a pioneering international".

His new task in team management feverish the longtime Schalke with much anticipation. "It was always the biggest to play for my country. That's why I am very pleased to be back in the new role in the national team and to be involved in all processes around the DFB team," Höwedes will be in cited a message from the DFB. "At him", stressed Bierhoff, "our young players can be oriented".

Höwedes will initially go to the Winter World Cup 2022 in Qatar parallel to his UEFA-Master study course for international (MIP) in a kind of trainee program the management tasks around the team of national coach Hansi Flick. He wanted to learn how a selection team is managed - and at the same time passing on his experience to the team and the team behind the team, so Höwedes: "We have a great team with lots of potential. I am very proud to play now again."

Höwedes had finished his active career in the summer of 2020. From October he occupies the management seminar of UEFA, which has already passed through Simon Rolfes and Sebastian Kehl. The training program is to offer top players the opportunity to change according to their active careers in leadership roles outside the place. This lasts a total of two years.

Flick, Höwedes and the conversion according to the era Löw

"It is my goal of increasingly installing earlier successful national player in management and to benefit from your experience. For the future of German football and the leadership of the national team, it is important that we show our former national players paths and help as they also Management can be successful, "said Bierhoff.

With Höwedes, the conversion proceeds according to the era Joachim Löw around the national team. Flick had already brought Danny Röhl as a second co-coach next to Marcus Mory in his team. Vacant is still the post of goalkeeper trainer after the retreat of Andreas Köpke. Hot candidate is according to sports image of the Swiss Andreas Kronenberg from the SC Freiburg.

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"Success is only in common," said Flick last: "We have to create an atmosphere to shape this team." Höwedes should act actually.