And yet, Julien Sprunger regret nothing

Julien Sprunger to the ZSC Lions – that was the beginning of 2010, a realistic Option for the wing. "I had several offers on the table, and if I had changed, I would have gone to Zurich," he says. "At times it was 50 to 50 between Fribourg and ZSC. Me it had been, to see something New."

At the end he signed for four more years at Gottéron. "Private things tipped the scales," he says. "My first son was on the way, so I decided to stay in my familiar environment." In the meantime, he has two sons at the age of eight and a half years.

Had Sprunger changed at that time to the people of Zurich (and he stayed), he would now be a three-time Swiss champion. He doesn't regret his decision? He grins. "Yes, if I only would have gone to get the title, I would have to go to the ZSC, or at the SCB. But I have a Mission in Freiburg. I want to shape the history of this club." Just to be clear, he adds: "no, I don't regret my decision." In the meantime, Sprunger is 33, and that he leaves his sporting home, is hard to imagine.

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number 5 of the list of best

On Sunday, he was a Studio guest in the Western Swiss television, "sports Sunday". In a post about him it was said: "The Canton of Fribourg has several landmarks. The Cathedral of St. Nicholas, the Moléson, the Fondue moitié-moitié and Julien Sprunger." With 313 goals, he is the best scorer in the club's history – and the No. 5 Swiss best list behind Peter Jaks (487), Gil Montandon (417), Roman weger (405) and Jörg Eberle (379). Also with age he has lost nothing of scoring chances. Its 18 matches in the current season are only surpassed by Lugano Gregory Hofmann (21).

"shoot many goals, is the one," he says. "To do it year in and year something else. The ice hockey has changed in the last 15 years. To take the Puck and make a Solo, is hardly possible today. So, I had to change me."

Sprunger is not as spectacular as before, he is become still more efficient. "It is crucial that you're at the right place at the right time," he says. The shot you can train specifically to develop the intuition for the situations to be more difficult. He seems to have in the blood. "I play more deliberate than in the past," he says. "With 20 you run away."

Worth the risk?

As well documented as his Goalgetter-qualities, but also his injury history. Last season he was the sixth concussion again longer had to fear the worst. But he returned, and this Winter is dominant as ever. He has not thought of whether the risk is worth it? "Of course I think about it," he says. "The health is the most important thing. That's why I shake me after each brain is also very much the time taken and experts consulted, in order to have all the info."

He'll, of course, particularly well, says Sprunger. "But in hockey, it goes so fast, there are sometimes collisions are unavoidable. Also this happened to me, unfortunately." What annoys him are the deliberate attacks against the head, the witnesses of a lack of respect for professional colleagues. And, as he says, "missing line" of the League, the Sanction of such attacks.

Sprunger is to be hoped that he stays out of further concussions spared. And maybe he can his dream of the championship title with Gottéron, Yes even realize. You would him, put the 1.94 meters large Cathedral landmark, a monument.

(tages-Anzeiger.ch/Newsnet)

Created: 22.01.2019, 17:55 PM