Flick writes the redemption chapter. The German’s legacy with Barcelona is at stake in front of a broken Madrid

In football, the “executioner” rarely turns into the “savior” overnight, but Hansi Flick broke the rule and turned Barcelona’s wounds into a podium, in a rare tactical paradox that turned yesterday’s enemy into the architect of today’s comeback.

And today The German coach faces his toughest test since taking over the job when he takes charge of his Catalan side in El Clasico against Real Madrid on Sunday night. Next, in a battle that could prove that the “former executioner” has actually become the “present savior” or reopen the wounds that everyone thought they had healed.

However, before Hansi Flick opened a new page in the book of the relationship between Barcelona and the German school, the experiences of the German coaches at the Camp Nou were not many, but they were influential and varied… as they started with the tactical rigor that Hennis Weissler tried to establish in the seventies, before turning into a physical and disciplinary revolution, led by Udo Lahm to the title. 11 years.

The German heritage remained at home in Catalonia in intermittent intervals, oscillating between history-making success and fleeting experiences that left no mark. This legacy, with all its contradictions, is why Flick’s mission today is loaded with the weight of history and the aspirations of the present.