Let's talk about Shakhtar's rival.
How long has it been since Shakhtar won European Cups with a team that threatens to win in another division?!
Indeed, it is important to eat, whatever you want. Celta season-16/17? Don’t come close, that team of Berisso was much stronger for this and meant a lot of super-interest in the League of Europe (before the semifinals reached) they were out of the villota zone by 14 points. Fulgem in the 2009/10 season? Hardly; Hodgson has simply won a strong team, and this means that the coach, having placed a bet on the European Cups, immediately entered the Premier League, releasing a double, from the bottom three, moving up 16 points. You can go Toulouse, from which Shakhtar is located a couple of months before Fulgham, and that’s a big stretch. Let the French finish the season in 14th place, their “+15” from the villota zone at the end of the season with a small stink.
And the Young Boys axis is constantly playing in such a way that you simply don’t understand what to worry about. After thirteen rounds, the “young boys” had six defeats and a third place at the end. Already in the first round, the capital club played in the new league in Sion; After which it was so useful, like 0:4 from St. Gallen and 1:3 from Servette.
We are not talking about European Cups: all games of the Young Boys this season of the Champions League ended with a clean sheet. True, they still played only against representatives of the top leagues: Barcelona (0:5), Aston Valley (0:3) and Inter (0:1).
Let me remind you that we are talking about the rank champion of the country - obviously not about the Swiss version of Leicester, but about the team that got us used to the titles. How did the “young boys” end up in such a life
First of all, we would like to tell you about the amazing history of the team, which, being a representative of the capital, at a great time became a football periphery - if it needed to be done carefully, it always found the strength to turn around.
Lords of Wankdorf The very name of Young Boys was a kind of punchline at the hour of the birth of professional football in Switzerland. In 1894, Basel founded its own football club by people who were old enough to establish a school section - and this club, which later gave the name to Lionel Messi's first club, formerly called " How fatefully later, the capital’s students fell asleep on their team - and they could see their name in contrast to the Basel one.
If the “Old Boys” soon ceased to represent any serious force and now rank in the fifth division in rank, the “Young Boys” were the stars of different eras. Varto guessed that in the local arena the Young Boys held the final of the World Championship 1954 - and this was a loss, since the arena was already very sharp.
Five of the Young Boys took part in the home championship for Switzerland - and they were part of a very strong team, which did not allow Italy to leave the group and lost to the most productive match in the history of the tournament. 5:7 on the forty-degree spice at Lausanne look like an eternal compliment to the teams, as vikorista specu as a vindication of the gloomy roll and the game at 0:0; Switzerland lost to their eternal counterparts in especially Austria, although they were leading 3:0 until the middle of the first half..
And the Young Boys at that time “celebrated” a quarter of a century without a championship title. Wanting to share third place with Servette (17) in the historical table of ranks of “young boys”, they had to go on a starvation diet more than once. Six titles have been won before the Other World, and in order to return the championship trophy to Bern, it will take a mentor who created the Miracle of Bern.
Albert Sing engraved with Sepp Herberger back in the forties. Before the calls, the team won the emergency, falling short - at that time, it already had 37 victories - but entered the field in its fifth decade. It may be long before we accept the fact that at that time Zing had long been the coach of his teams. Not the ones in the Young Boys, but the ones at Schaffhausen before Zing was a coach.
The result of this work - initially as a fighter, and then “simply” as a trainer - became four champion titles. The stars of this team were the forwards. One of the members of this very strong Switzerland, Eugene “Genie” Mayer, may once again lose the team's highest scorer in history with 199 goals. Ernst Wekselberger was too young to spend as much money as possible, and even helped the “young boys” reach the semifinals of the 1959 Champions Cup.
Then, at the first stage of the playoffs, the team played against Manchester United, but thanks to the Munich tragedy, the English played a game. Vekselberger's goals helped pass the Ugric MTK in 1/8, the German Vismut in 1/4 - and in the semi-finals Mayer's goal became a winner against the incredibly strong Reims. Unfortunately, the French still defeated the capital's club and reached the final.
Zing defeated the Young Boys as one of the strongest teams in Europe in the 1950s, and now 58 (! ) Rocky Capital Club having won one championship.
Bern - a great place for retirement “Boys” of the fifties must have lain under specific stars. Varto was waiting for Mayer and Vekselberger to grow old as their success began. The single title until the end of the century dates back to the 1985/86 season. For all the honors to the forward Lars Lunde, who was immediately taken to Bavaria, and the retired Robert Prutz, who won trophies in Sweden, Scotland, and then won the title of Switzerland Meccas from Italy (rare cosmopolitanism at this time) -. In the season before the title, the “Young Boys” finished ninth in the championship, and this year they became tenth.
Further, we are more impressed by Switzerland, which has placed Germany, Italy and Turkey among the top countries where non-metropolitan football clubs dominate. At the very least, the Young Boys were on the periphery without any special orders, where it was possible to enjoy even more Swiss life. For example, Stephane Chapuisat, one of the greatest football players in the history of the country, having arrived in Bern in 33 years, and what is now unheard of, 58 goals and 35 assists in three seasons. At its worst, the Young Boys were in a state of flux (Chapuise and having come to the team as soon as they turned from the swamp) or balancing on the line of bankruptcy and bankruptcy.
Young Boys became a team that made people laugh. Switzerland has coined the term “proyoungboysen,” “Veryoungboysen,” which means “to miss everything at the last moment.”. The same period from 1960 to 2018, including one championship – and eleven other places! The team won six consecutive Cup finals for just two – there, and in European cups, the team was victorious against rivals of the Myupa level -47. In order to become a team, because, on the off chance, they are afraid of the rich and high-status teams, the “young lads” need a young child and some praise.
Swiss Billy Bin Christoph Spacher had an incredible football career, winning 47 caps for the national team (being a participant in that legendary match at the 2006 Emergency, for example, Shovkovskyi set his tournament record) and And finished the day at Bernie’s. According to the sports director’s recognition of everything through a number of fates after the end of his career, many people were wary: after all, there were still some misconceptions, “greens”. Ale Same and Specher Young Boys became the strongest team in the country.
For us, Spacher was especially helped by those two fates that occurred between the “positions” of a football player and a sports director. As a manager for the development of talents, and among the talents who moved from the reserve of young boys to the first team, Michelle Ebisher and Kwadwo Dua were the gravitationalists who greatly helped the team in the rest of the Euro. Ale Christophe showed his class in all warehouses for his work.
Under the new club, they learned to sell at a high price, reveal undervalued players, and scout for new talents.. It turned out especially well when Borussia Monchengladbach paid 12 million for Zakaria, the same summer they sent Djibril Sow to Bern for 2 - and a little later, Eintracht Frankfurt paid 14 million for Sow.. The young boys signed Kevin Mbabu after failing in Newcastle - and sold him to Wolfsburg, but failed again. Fabian Rieder joined the system for the club - and thus went to Rennes for 15 million. And, for example, Jean-Pierre Nsame joined the team after Servetti scored 23 goals in one season.. don't go anywhere. He “simply” became a local legend, with 140 goals and a lot of trophies.
Get stronger under Spicher and coaches. Adi Gutter herself gained her name from Berne, turning the championship back to Weindkorf after a 32-year break - and will immediately have a successful career in the top leagues. Gerardo Seoane, having won three championships with the “young lads” - and don’t forget about it, and from that moment he works for the Bundeslisia. Six victories at Superliza for this period allow the most successful club in history to take part in this period – and as of the beginning of this series, Young Boys was a clear outsider in the duels with Shakhtar and Dynamo, then, for example, last year this season, Vin was already a favorite.
Why is everything so bad at once
Ale, ale, ale. Successes in the past - from the past of recent times - do not affect the recent past. At the same time, the hegemon of the league is in tenth place out of twelve teams – and this is despite the fact that the teams are lucky: the recent 3:2 win over Basel was due to two own goals from their opponent! What are the reasons?
Globally, it seems that the role of Spicher himself has changed - and it is not a fact that this was to the benefit of the club. Two reasons for this are important for visualizing the club, and in trying to find a replacement for your club, you can tell by pressing “Ctrl+C”, “Ctrl+V”. Steve von Bergen is poised for a great career as a gravel, having ended his career in Bern, and having worked with young people for a couple of rocks - and so he was appointed sports director. There are no such transfer deals for the new sports director of this team (before the speech, the great Chapuisat himself immediately takes over the position of the chief scout).
The club learned the mistakes made by the coaches itself. Let's reach out to the 2024 rock club with two head coaches. Back in the spring, winning the title, we said goodbye to Rafael Viki - and later, after the disaster at the start, to Patrick Ramen. The “lads” are now being trained by Joel Magnin - another great gravel, who has a lot of rocks in the team and is simply ready to close the loophole under the name “in.
As much as you can stand on the side, the team has discipline. During the 0:4 draw with St. Gallen, goalkeeper David von Ballmos - an undeniable legend, a participant in all six championship seasons - got nervous. Right before the hour of the match, they raided the henchman Ajam, crowded him up and started shouting at him.
In the remaining game with Zurich (0:0), Joel Monteiro won a penalty so much that, out of aggression, he threw his boot and received a clean red card from his opponent. Since such a misfortune arises during the hour of the game, it is scary to realize what is in the excitement - and this, of course, is extremely far from the stereotypes about the Swiss discipline.
Well, plus to what extent, simply, the frames are all. The Young Boys are currently facing a major plague of injuries: for example, three central members and the left ones are simultaneously injured (! ) zakhishniki. The pairing with captain Benito is a nominal midfielder, and the remaining left-back is literally in the rest of the game, and as we say, Magnin is a mystery. Injuries and Fasina Konte - a 19-year-old Guinean forward, who, for other reasons, would be a strong contender for promotion to the top league.
To replace the verdict Just recently, the dominance of Basel in Switzerland seemed eternal. Having won not 6 titles in 7 victories, but 9 in 10 — and having chosen a much stronger team. Basel will now become the next force in the Swiss Super League without winning the championship and will cease to be.
However, the “military” Shakhtar, who has survived a million force majeure events, is being lost to a team with an incomparably greater resource, the Young Boys.. We can’t remember the era of Bernard and Villean – after 24. 02. 22 “Girniks” have already signed two graves for a total of 12 million euros.. The record of the “young boys” is a ridiculous 4.5 million euros, and they also invested in 2017 for Kassim Adams (through the river they sold to Goffenheim for 8).
Every championship, every super-expensive sale did not become a drive for Spacher to buy gravers at a higher price for three million euros. So the market on which the club operates is very modest: Shakhtar can “suck” talent in a much larger space and, until the hour of war, among the large number of talents, the Young Boys. So, after 5 years in the system, the same “young boys” may be “Swiss” with the nickname Melnyk or Kovalenko, but the truth doesn’t change the essence. Shakhtar sifted from the river, but not from the table, to be an outsider in such a game.
With respect to the fact that the Young Boys are still in a major recession, it would be simply disgraceful to lose weight. Ukrainian clubs have already come up with the idea that they can play for everyone in the European Cups - I would like to see the tenth team of Switzerland, Shakhtar, guessing how to beat RB Leipzig.