Soccer World Cup 2010 / Switzerland

This article covers the Swiss national football team at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Switzerland	18: 08	21st
2	Greece	20:10	20th
3	Latvia	18:15	17th
4th	Israel	20:10	16
5	Luxembourg	04:25	05
6th	Moldova	06:18	03

	Israel - Switzerland		2: 2 (0: 1)
	Hakan Yakin, Blaise Nkufo
	Switzerland - Luxembourg		1: 2 (1: 1)
	Blaise Nkufo
	Switzerland - Latvia		2: 1 (0: 0)
	Alexander Frei, Blaise Nkufo
	Greece - Switzerland		1: 2 (0: 1)
	Alexander Frei, Blaise Nkufo
	Moldova - Switzerland		0: 2 (0: 1)
	Alexander Frei, Gelson Fernandes
	Switzerland - Moldova		2: 0 (1: 0)
	Blaise Nkufo, Alexander Frei
	Switzerland - Greece		2: 0 (0: 0)
	Stéphane Grichting, Marco Padalino
	Latvia - Switzerland		2: 2 (0: 1)
	Alexander Frei, Eren Derdiyok
	Luxembourg - Switzerland		0: 3 (0: 3)
	Philippe Senderos (2), Benjamin Huggel
	Switzerland - Israel		0-0

Swiss contingent

The Swiss national coach Ottmar Hitzfeld announced on May 11th 2010 the line-up of 23 players. On May 18, Christoph Spycher had to cancel because of his torn inner ligament in his left knee, whereupon Ludovic Magnin was nominated. At the beginning of the first week of training, Marco Streller suffered a ruptured muscle fiber and was replaced by Albert Bunjaku .

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Diego Benaglio	VfL Wolfsburg	09/08/1983	3	0	1	0	0
12	Marco Wölfli	BSC Young Boys	08/22/1982	0	0	0	0	0
21st	Johnny Leoni	FC Zurich	06/30/1984	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Stephan Lichtsteiner	Lazio Rome	January 16, 1984	3	0	0	0	0
3	Ludovic Magnin	FC Zurich	04/20/1979	0	0	0	0	0
4th	Philippe Senderos	Everton FC	02/14/1985	1	0	0	0	0
5	Steve from Bergen	Hertha BSC	06/10/1983	3	0	0	0	0
13	Stéphane Grichting	AJ Auxerre	03/30/1979	3	0	1	0	0
17th	Reto Ziegler	Sampdoria Genoa	01/16/1986	3	0	1	0	0
22nd	Mario Eggimann	Hannover 96	01/24/1981	1	0	0	0	0
midfield player
6th	Benjamin Huggel	FC Basel	07/07/1977	3	0	0	0	0
7th	Tranquillo Barnetta	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	May 22, 1985	3	0	1	0	0
8th	Gökhan Inler	Udinese Calcio	06/27/1984	3	0	1	0	0
11	Valon Behrami	West Ham United	April 19, 1985	1	0	0	0	1
14th	Marco Padalino	Sampdoria Genoa	December 8, 1983	0	0	0	0	0
15th	Hakan Yakin	FC Luzern	02/22/1977	2	0	1	0	0
16	Gelson Fernandes	AS Saint-Etienne	09/02/1986	3	1	1	0	0
20th	Pirmin Schwegler	Eintracht Frankfurt	03/09/1987	0	0	0	0	0
23	Xherdan Shaqiri	FC Basel	10/10/1991	0	0	0	0	0
striker
9	Alexander Frei	FC Basel	07/15/1979	2	0	0	0	0
10	Blaise Nkufo	FC Twente Enschede	May 25, 1975	3	0	1	0	0
18th	Albert Bunjaku	1. FC Nuremberg	11/29/1983	1	0	0	0	0
19th	Eren Derdiyok	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	06/12/1988	3	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Ottmar Hitzfeld		01/12/1949

Crew quarters

The team was based in the Emerald Resort & Casino in Vanderbijlpark ( Gauteng ), 80 kilometers south of Johannesburg .

Games of Switzerland

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Spain	4: 2	6th
2	Chile	3: 2	6th
3	Switzerland	1: 1	4th
4th	Honduras	0: 3	1

Switzerland started the tournament with a big surprise. Against the European champions and one of the tournament favorites Spain, they managed an opening win thanks to a convincing defense. In the second game against Chile they remained without conceding a goal for a long time and set a new record with 559 minutes in a row at the World Championships. However, they lost the second game after losing a player early to being sent off due to a tough referee decision. In the last game, the Swiss had it in their own hands to make it through to the round of 16, but against Honduras they couldn't get past 0-0.

• Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 4 p.m. in Durban Spain - Switzerland 0: 1 (0: 0)
  
• Monday, June 21, 2010, 4 p.m. in Port Elizabeth Chile - Switzerland 1: 0 (0: 0)
  
• Friday, June 25, 2010, 8.30 p.m. in Bloemfontein, Switzerland - Honduras 0-0
  

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ottmar Hitzfeld announces World Cup squad
2. ↑ Spycher declares resignation from the national team
3. ^ Torn muscle fiber - World Cup without Marco Streller
4. ↑ Bunjaku replaces Streller who was injured in the national team