Brandon Soppy and the Cup of Switzerland: a lesson in humility on the Riviera

Take a player like Brandon Soppy. Last Thursday, he played in the fabulous Astana arena. Less than two years ago, the lateral French side or piston was still fighting against St. Pauli or Lazio with his former Atalanta clubs and Schalke 04. On Sunday, he ended up on the lawn of the Bel-Air stadium, in La Tour-de-Peilz, opposite Vevey-Sports. A team of 3rd Swiss division…

So you might as well write it right away, Brandon Soppy did not immediately have the desire to want. The former international junior among the Blues even took a big broth at the start of the game against the flamboyant Yohan Aymon, the Valais winger landed less than a month ago from FC Sion. If he ended up raising the pace a little, the native of Aubervilliers took a good lesson in humility and that is why the universality of football is unique.

“Thank you to all the young people for not invading the field, the players would like to warm up!” At halftime, Patrick Rochat – Former mythical speaker of the Tuilière and the Pontaise, who resumed the service for the occasion – may have prayed fans to stay in the stands, it was lost. We are in the countryside and here, at the halftime of a match, we will play on the field, and worse that’s all. The organizers may have watering on the way, the supporters rushed below, just to win some degrees under the heat wave of the Riviera.

It was the same at the final whistle. With his microphone, Patrick Rochat launched a call not to tread the lawn of Bel-Air. But the spectators rushed there, logically, just to try to scratch a jersey here or to offer a selfie there. They would undoubtedly have liked to talk with the players, but as the sound system of the enclosure was spitting much too strong from the rap which oscillated between bad quality and downright embarrassing, it was complicated.

So yes, the game was a bit organized with the means at hand. In view of the instability of Vevey-Sports, necessarily … but the afternoon was still beautiful. “We were even quite lucky to lead 0-2 before half-time,” smiled a little yellow a Peter Zeidler who was not happy with the performance of his players. Before braiding laurel crowns to a few elements of the Veveysan workforce, like a certain No. 7 “which has the level of the Super League”. On the 7th, it was Yohan Aymon and Brandon Soppy probably agreed…

“First there are regrets, because we still have the opportunities,” said the Aymon in question. We know that Lausanne is two notches above us and against a Super League, it does not forgive. In the end, there is still a little pride to have offered a good match like that. ” And when we come back to 2-1 at the 85th … “Of course we believed it. We were able to perceive a legendary scenario that could happen, ”signed the one who touched wood in the 11th.

“I come from FC Sion and I knew that matches like that, it’s always complicated and I was a little used to this level,” chained Valaisan. Now, I will try to perform even more to finalize my opportunities, because I have to put them, and we’ll see! ” No doubt Peter Zeidler will also want to see him again one of these four, in other circumstances …