ThoseWhere to follow the Swiss team?
Even in its country, Switzerland does not do what it wants at the Euro
The Swiss team will spend the majority of Euro 2025 in Thoune, where it set its base camp. But UEFA “also forces” him to sleep in Basel and Geneva.
The Seepark Hotel in Thoune offers the Swiss team a soothing setting at the heart of a tournament that will not lack emotions for it.
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- The Swiss national women’s football team established its base camp in Thoune during Euro 2025.
- UEFA directives oblige each selection to train the day before the matches in the meeting stadium.
- Switzerland will go to Basel, where its opening match awaits it against Norway, on Tuesday afternoon.
Smilla Vallotto took a slap by joining the Swiss team. A weather slap. “I left Sweden on a small 18 degrees, with wind. I thought I would die in my first training here, ”smiles one of the players with the most confusing profile of Euro 2025. Born in Geneva, who left to live in Norway in 2008, ready to take part with Switzerland in a few hours at the shock between its two nations which will close the first day of the competition. But to be completely ready, she knows: she still has to get used to this climate that she no longer knows.
“I am not the only one to have made myself: I discussed with Finns and English people who will play the euro. They too had the image of Switzerland as a rather cold country, probably because of the mountains or skiing, “slips the 21 -year -old midfielder, freshly transferred from Hammarby (Sweden) to Wolfsburg.
Her technique is to slip into frozen baths and put out the heat alarms in her head. And luckily, the national team has reserved a pleasant surprise for him. During the entire tournament or almost, The Nati Loge in Thouneat the exact place where the AAR comes to throw itself into the lake. A refreshing setting, at least.
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The Swiss team favored the calm of the Oberland in relation to the animation of cities. The idea being to be able to escape the effervescence which will necessarily strike it in the coming days, the weight of expectations. To be able to go out to have a coffee or stretch your legs by the AAR in peace, in short.
The fact remains that if there is a place where the Swiss public is most likely to see its internationals closely, even if it means breaking their bubble, it is in the surroundings of the charming Seepark hotel.
The Swiss team cannot be satisfied with the Oberland
The pleasant eighty is only a few steps from the training ground that the crampons of the Swiss will trample the most in the next few days, located in Strandbad Sports Place. Except that its access, already largely limited for the press, is prohibited to the public (even if it is far from being impossible to distinguish what is happening through the black tarpaulins erected around the enclosure). The events of meeting between the players and the population also ended on Monday, with a final dedication session in Thoune.
The hotel was privatized until the elimination of Switzerland. In an ideal world, Lia Wälti and her teammates would probably spend all of their nights. Except that, even in his country, the national team does not do everything she wants.
The fault is the responsibility of UEFA. According to its directives, each selection has a duty to organize a press conference the day before each match of the tournament in the stadium where the game will be competed. The teams generally take the opportunity to organize a training session on the field in question.
The good side of things: each can take their bearings twenty-four hours from the kick-off. The less good: the roadmap for each selection becomes more complex. If they intend to avoid wasting hours in transport, other pied-à-terre than the base camp are necessary.
Geneva could receive Switzerland twice
To follow the trace of Switzerland, it will therefore be necessary to go to Basel on Tuesday afternoon. Pia Sundhage’s troop will train at Saint-Jacques park, Wednesday duel’s place against Norway, between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., but the public is not invited. She will then spend the night plus Wednesday in the Rhine city, before swallowing the two hours of road towards Thoune after the match.
The same diagram will be followed during the 3e Match, which will take place in Geneva against Finland. As for match 2 against Iceland in Bern, it offers the Swiss the luxury to stay in their Thounois camp. A luxury that they would find if they had to qualify for the quarter -finals as second group, the poster being planned at Wankdorf.
In the event that the Nati succeeds in winning its hen, it will delight the 27,000 spectators of the Stade de Genève. The semi-finals will be played in Zurich and Geneva, the final in Basel. A distant horizon for the Swiss team. Closer, there are the waters of AAR and Lake Thoune. It’s already not bad.
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