Barcelona manager Hansi Flick adds two more to the staff during the international break

Barcelona manager Hansi Flick arrived with a relatively small coaching team in the position with only assistant manager Marcus Sorg, Toni Tapalovic and Heiko Westermann arriving with him. The club had brought in a new fitness team alongside him, but now Flick saw fit to bring in two more match analysts.

According to RAC1Flick hired two match analysts he knew from the German national set-up, as was the case with Sorg and Westermann. The first is Dr. Stephan Nopp, who was part of Germany's senior side analysis team between 2011 and 2023, who worked with Flick during their victory in the 2014 World Cup, and leaving at the end of the reign of Flick in December 2023. Nopp has been without a. work since.

Hansi Flick signs two new assistants for his coaching staff. They are: Stephan Nopp and Michael Hasemann. @ClubMitjanit

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Meanwhile, 26-year-old Michael Hasemann has been part of the youth set-up at the German Football Association for several years as well, working as an analyst from the under-16s to the under-19s last summer.

Hasemann completed his UEFA Pro License last summer, and after starting as a central defender for Osnabruck and then Koln, reaching their B teams, he also played amateur football. Hasemann would have crossed paths with Weestermann especially during his time at the youth set-up for Germany, with Westermann also part of the under-19s before joining Barcelona.

Dr. Nopp and Hasemann join current video analyst Francesc Marti and Match analyst Guillem Escriu as part of the existing analysis team. Understandably, Flick is keen to have input from his own trusted people, and even from the staff already, Flick's staff is still closer to half of those of Marcelino Garcia Toral or Unai Emery at Villarreal and Aston Villa respectively.