Switzerland
Features news coverage of Switzerland and its players, including match reports and general football news.
Group H: La Loco’s 3-4-3 will prove too much.
Not many teams will be more happy with their draw than La Furia Roja, who have every right to feel they will saunter through this group, with all the ease they exhibited in qualifying. There is definite talent in the other teams, but Espanola are in a league of their own here. Even if Spain…
Switzerland World Cup 2010 Preview
It starts with a sudden lowering of the voice. Two quick glances to either side, a furtive slug of the glass, and the mysteries are revealed. Never mind the hand of Thierry Henry and the referee who was told to see nothing. The real European World Cup conspiracy, the one which – like all the…
Swiss Football Rocked By Europe-Wide Match Fixing Scandal
The Swiss Football Association (ASF) have handed substantial bans to nine Swiss Football League players for their respective parts in a match-fixing scandal that is sweeping across Europe. Five professional players from Swiss second-tier clubs Thun, Gossau and Slavonija Bern were given open-ended suspensions that will last at least three years – thus effectively ending…
Switzerland 2010 World Cup Squad
Switzerland Coach: Ottmar Hitzfeld No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Club 1 GK Diego Benaglio 8 September 1983 (aged 26) 25 Wolfsburg 2 DF Stephan Lichtsteiner 16 January 1984 (aged 26) 26 Lazio 3 DF Reto Ziegler 16 January 1986 (aged 24) 10 Sampdoria 4 DF Philippe Senderos 14 February 1985 (aged 25) 38 Everton 5…
2010 World Cup Qualification History: Group H
Judging by how Spain ran through what could have been considered a tricky 2010 World Cup qualifying group, one might feel that the other three sides in Group H might well just be playing for second and a likely second-round meeting with Brazil. However, take a look at how each of those sides made their…
Euro 2012 Qualifiers
The draw for the Euro 2012 qualifying stages was held today in Warsaw and the resulting groups left us with few possibilities of upsets. England missed out on qualification last time around but have a relatively easy group to negotiate with the likes of Wales, Montenegro and Bulgaria standing in their way. Switzerland round up…
Euro 2008 Manager Ratings
We’ve looked at the players, now it’s time to look at the managers involved at Euro 2008 and find out how they got on:
The Sun‘s Top 10 Flops of Euro 2008
Luca Toni‘s topping the charts again… only this time, it isn’t very flattering. English tabloid The Sun just dished out another Top 10 list, regrouping the “Biggest flops” of this Summer’s Euro championship tournament. The Italy striker tops the list, despite receiving a pat on the back from Bayern Munich chairman Karl Heinz Rummenigge. “It’s…
Transfer Rumours (28 June 08): Arsenal and Liverpool tap up youngsters, Newcastle after Manchester United defender, Chelsea to lose Lampard but gain Arshavin and more
Once the Euros wrap up tomorrow, you can expect a flurry of transfer activity to start happening across Europe starting 1st July. We’ll be there to cover everything (everything important, at least), but today there’s precious little to go on apart from some footballers confirming their lack of intelligence and some managers confirming that they’d…
Euro 2008 – Half-Term Report
16 matches gone, 15 more to go. After the agonisingly long qualification process, the tournament itself feels brutally short – then again, that’s probably what makes up most of the excitement at this level, the fact that every match is a final. So how have the 16 teams performed so far? Let’s look at it…
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