World Cup 2010 - Switzerland

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By dannywoodpx

President:Ralph M. Zloczower
Coach: Ottmar Hitzfeld
Established: 1895
Confederation: UEFA
Webpage:http://www.football.ch

Although they are far from being a world power in football, as they are in other areas, such as chocolate, watches and banking, turn out to be a team to fulfilling the demands of a small country, gone to the ninth participation in World Cup. In order to be present in South African this summer, Switzerland qualified in 1st place in Group 2 which had as opponents the selections from Greece, Latvia, Israel, Luxembourg and Moldova.

In this world Cup, the Swiss have strong possibilities to ensure the transition to the next phase, but do not expect facilities, on the contrary, because ithey have to figth with Chile for 2nd group place if we consider that the 1st place is assigned super favorite Spain.

Key Players

Diego Benaglio-He acts in Wolfsburg in Germany since two seasons ago, helping, the team to win his first German Champion Title. It is the undisputed holder of the Swiss national team goal since Euro 2008.

Alexander Frei - He is the Swiss top scorer of all time with 40 goals in 73 appearances and is the team captain since 2007, after the departure of Johann Vogel.
In the "Austrian-Swiss" European in 2008 was injured in the opening game against the Czech Republic and can not help his team during the rest of the competition. This time, he will lead the team as far as possible.


The Coach

Ottmar Hitzfeld, an experienced German coach, owns an impressive résumé, because it has already won almost everything there is to win at club level.Hitzfeld back to Switzerland to coach a team, this time the national team in order to make them forget the debacle that was the Swiss participation in "its" European 2008 and for now he already have take the team to African World Cup.

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