Zuber provided the key to Switzerland’s success

Steven Zuberfootball player Switzerlandconfirmed this Thursday in a press conference that he “wants” to leave his “stamp” on Euro 2024 after missing the first games due to a muscle injury that has cost him a place in the eleven team. Murat Yakin in favor of Michel Aebischer.

The midfielder of AEK Athens He was one of the best players of the Swiss team at the last Euro, where his team also reached the quarterfinals. Then, he was the best helper of the tournament with four assists on goals and three years later he barely managed to get a few minutes in the round of 16 duel that Switzerland won 2-0 in Italy.

“I know what my role will be”

“I really want to leave my mark in the Euro Cup. Before the tournament I already know what my role will be, but I always want to go into games as a substitute if it is with a 2-0 favor than a 0- 2 against,” he said with 48 hours to go before Switzerland’s match with England in the quarterfinals.

Zubernext to Xhaka, Shaqiri, Schär either summerwas part of the ‘Golden Generation’ of Switzerland and he remembered that everyone was very close after years of sharing locker rooms with the national team from the lower categories. “We all played together from very, very little. That’s why we know the good and bad sides of each other,” he commented.

“It also allows us to address things that can hurt us, but in the end it helps us all. That is the great strength of our team. Also, age no longer influences football , everything is a question of quality,” he said. Zuber to defend players over 30 years old.

Furthermore, he was confident that he would overcome it England in the quarterfinals and declared that in the match against Italy he already felt that his team was capable of doing “something big” at the Euro Cup. “I was impressed by the team’s attitude. It was like we were playing a totally normal game,” he concluded.