{"id":576602,"date":"2026-05-10T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/576602\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:33:08","slug":"el-clasico-hansi-flick-to-lead-barcelona-despite-fathers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/576602\/","title":{"rendered":"El Clasico: Hansi Flick to lead Barcelona despite father&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manager Hansi Flick will take charge of Barcelona in Sunday&#8217;s El Clasico against Real Madrid despite the death of his father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tributes will be paid at the Nou Camp, with a minute&#8217;s silence before kick-off (20:00 BST) and players wearing black armbands during the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Announcing the death on Sunday afternoon, Barcelona said: &#8220;FC Barcelona and the entire blaugrana family wish to send all our love to Hansi Flick after the passing of his father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We share in your sorrow and our thoughts are with you and your family during this difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flick, 61, can deliver back-to-back La Liga titles for Barcelona with a win or draw against Real.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Bayern Munich and Germany manager has won four trophies with Barcelona since replacing Xavi in May 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their fierce rivals from Madrid said in a statement: &#8220;Real Madrid, its president and its directors deeply regret the death of the father of Hansi Flick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Real Madrid wants to express its condolences and affection to their families and all their loved ones. Rest in peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manager Hansi Flick will take charge of Barcelona in Sunday&#8217;s El Clasico against Real Madrid despite the death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-576602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}