Interview with Mads Buttgereit: “Standards are so awesome” – Sport

Mads Buttgereit is the corner kick and free kick expert on Hansi Flick’s staff. He talks about the complex choreographies that lead to corner goals and explains why the German team is unpredictable when it comes to set pieces.

as Hansi Flick took over the post of national coach from Jogi Löw in August 2021, he appointed an assistant with a completely new profile to his staff: Mads Buttgereit, half Danish, half German, has been taking care of the standard situations of the DFB team ever since. The 37-year-old was standard coach at the Danish first division club FC Midtjylland before he was appointed to the coaching staff of the Danish A-Elf by national coach Kasper Hjulmand. Flick, a self-confessed supporter of corners and free-kicks, had wanted to bring Buttgereit to Bayern Munich, which he was not able to do at the time. A technical discussion.