In the middle of the Zurich heart

At once is the new castle of the navel for the Zurich-based football world. From new castle the Xamax FCS, the last summer, was promoted in the Super League and the same as the first candidate on the descent was traded. Yesterday he played in Thun, and Zurich all looked to the Bernese Oberland. They had only one hope: that Xamax loses.

The FCZ did, because then he would keep despite the 0:3 in Basel at least four points in Reserve at the barrage of space. GC, because it would have then, despite the 0:1 against St. Gallen, just nine points behind Xamax and a Chance at least of 1 percent to the League.

But Xamax is not doing the people of Zurich't Like, Xamax loses, it wins, and the absolutely deserve it. 2:0, it is at the end, Kemal Ademi and Samir Ramizi, both meeting with Kosovan roots.

A crazy championship

hurt your goals in the Zurich Clubs. The Grasshoppers have descended to 99.99 percent. Now no more do the math, you could get to points still to Xamax unlock. How to win a team four times, since 17 rounds winless and against St. Gallen in a more dismal performance delivered?

And the FCZ is still a point in front of Xamax, before the barrage of space. And next Saturday he has to go to new castle. His only luck is that Xamax has to go without his superior Topskorer Raphaël Nuzzolo, because he is shown a yellow card in the tuna for a dozen foul and that's why is locked. He says: "This Yellow card I'll take that for the win."

Nuzzolo is not only one of the faces of this team, he is one of the whole championship, which is so crazy. Between the third and the Ninth, between Lugano and Xamax, lie only five points. "All want us to lose," said Nuzzolo, "but we put pressure on the entire League."

In Zurich, did not think of you at GC and FCZ in a dream that they would land this season in regions of the table, where Xamax was expected. Europa League was their Vision, space 4. A life on a great foot. Zürcher dreams.

GC and FCZ pay for the same weakness: their fatal delusion.

The 20 million they give to play in the Super League. The failure you could have, in any case, it is also cheaper. What you are now, for several reasons: their ignorance, their miserable transfer policy and their misjudgement of the staff.

In the case of the Grasshoppers, the starts a little earlier than at the FCZ, five years ago, when Stephan Anliker President. With his name he stands for decay. It stands for the fatal slope for GC to put on the wrong staff. It starts with the CEO (Manuel Huber), goes more than the various sports leaders (Rapic, Thoma, Huber, Walther) and coach (Bernegger, Yakin, Fink and Stipic) up to the players.

What the player is concerned, the list is almost a book in length. Looking at the current squad, who can only shake the head about what Mathias Walther, and Thorsten Fink in his compilation. In December, for example, Fink said, one, two players would get. And what happened? Six, but all six are the handles, starting with the most expensive: Yoric Ravet and Caiuby.

they came from the benches of the League with the idea to play at GC to front seats. Xamax took from Basel Geoffroy Serey Dié. The is no delicate footballer , but may be a determined worker. He also puts in tuna impressively. Serey Dié brings the reality of thinking which prevails in Xamax. It is not, once more, the President Binggeli can change something, wants to remove from the shadow of coach Stéphane Henchoz and increasingly as a self-promoter like.

In the case of GC, you must now sweep up Stephan Rietiker as Chairman and Uli Forte as coach of the shards. The culprits, however, let it go. Walther post pictures from Istanbul, while the GC suffers, Fink conceded, even after his dismissal for 44'000 Swiss francs in the month.

The FCZ lived two Victories

And the FCZ? Oh, this FCZ! He has miscalculated in the case of the Transfers in the same way as GC. At the latest, in the Winter he would have had to respond to that, he has after the departure of Raphael Dwamena and Michael Frey last summer, no striker, fit to his plans.

He repeated players, Yes, but for the U-21 because he was busy supposedly. For this, he gives off Victor Palsson. And makes Kevin Rüegg of the successor to the Icelandic horse as a Captain. Head of sports, Thomas Bickel says, this decision exemplifies the philosophy of the FCZ. Rüegg, however, is overwhelmed with the task, with his 20 years, he is everything, only no lead figure, no Palsson. Not everyone is Involved in this age Matthijs de.

Depending on the become worse the results, the more President Ancillo Canepa and coach Ludovic Magnin inclined have to pull up, on the referee. Canepa calls it "thin-skinned", he, of all people, Magnin you referred to once as a "cheater". You can't distract anyway from its own failings.

Long have you lived out of two Wins from that a year ago in the Cup final against YB, and that in October in the Europa League against Leverkusen. Magnin took advantage of that to stage yourself as a coach for big games. In the meantime, he is only a Trainer for low, eight alone in the second round. The much the speaker can also hide a little bit of that under him, no player is better. Canepa is his coach still a guarantee of a job, even in the case of a crash in the Challenge League.

so, On Saturday, the FCZ plays in Xamax. What is the FCZ is good currently, Magnins assistant René van Eck after 0:3 in Basel, summarized perfectly: the front, nothing, nothing in the rear, and in between holes like an Edam cheese.

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Created: 05.05.2019, 22:25 PM