Switzerland national football team profile

The Swiss national football team is the national football team of Switzerland. And it is controlled by the Swiss Football Association.ts best performances in the World Cup have been reaching the quarter-finals three times, in 1934, 1938 and when the country hosted the event in 1954. Switzerland also won silver at the 1924 Olympics. The youth teams have been more successful, winning the 2002 U-17 European Championship and the 2009 U-17 World Cup.
In 2006, Switzerland set a FIFA World Cup record by being eliminated from the competition despite not conceding a goal, losing to Ukraine in a penalty shootout in the last 16, by failing to score a single penalty - becoming the first national team in Cup history to do this.
Switzerland co-hosted Euro 2008 with Austria, making their third appearance in the competition. As with the two previous appearances, they did not clear the group stages.
In October 2009, Switzerland booked their place at the 2010 World Cup finals with a goalless draw against Israel at St Jacob stadium in Basel.
Switzerland qualified for the Euro 2004 in Portugal by finishing first in group 10 of the qualifying, ahead of Russia and Ireland.The World Cup 2006 in Germany was the first World Cup for Switzerland since their participation at the World Cup 1994. After finishing second behind France in qualifying group 4, they defeated Turkey in the play-off round 2–0 and 4–2 to qualify for the main tournament.Switzerland co-hosted the Euro 2008 together with Austria and was therefore automatically qualified.Switzerland played in group 2 of the UEFA qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Despite an embarrassing home loss against Luxembourg, they finished first in their group, ahead of Greece, Latvia and Israel.
Provisional squad list:GK Diego BENAGLIO,GK Johnny LEONI,GK Marco WOELFLI,Francois AFFOLTER,Tranquillo BARNETTA,Valon BEHRAMI,Nassim BEN KHALIFA,Albert BUNJAKU,Eren DERDIYOK,Mario EGGIMANN,Gelson FERNANDES,Alexander FREI,Stephane GRICHTING,Benjamin HUGGEL,Gokhan INLER,Stephan LICHTSTEINER,Fabian LUSTENBERGER,Ludovic MAGNIN,Alain NEF,Blaise NKUFO,Marco PADALINO,Pirmin SCHWEGLER,Philippe SENDEROS,Xherdan SHAQIRI,Christoph SPYCHER,Valentin STOCKER,Marco STRELLER,Steve VON BERGEN,Hakan YAKIN Reto ZIEGLER.

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