The Swiss media voted on the best things in Swiss sports this year and here are the soccer related ones: Best team: FC Basel 44.46% Swiss u21 team 29.04% Newcomer of the year: 3. Philippe Senderos 26.07% Coach of the Year: 3. Christian Gross FC Basel 18.32%. For those who care. the best sportsperson was Simon Ammann who won two gold medals in ski junping at the olympics.
An article from UEFA.com reviews the youth tournaments, not a bad year for the Swiss side. Winning the U-17 and the semi's in the U-21. I hope that this leads to even better things for the senior side. Link:http://www.uefa.com/footballcentral/news/Kind=4/newsId=44547.html How does olympic qualfying work in Europe? Do they use the U-23 tournament as it?