soccer

• Singing in the rain: Switzerland's national soccer team made a disappointingly early exit from their first European Championship on home soil, but organisers insist that Euro 2008 still brought major gains for the country as a whole.

Euro 2008 was a stunning sporting success, a cash-cow, a financial disaster, a bit of a damp squib, exciting, disappointing, lasting too long and over...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2008, Avril 2008

• Not All Cottages Are Red

In a Sweden where one in five citizens has roots in another part of the world, it is not as surprising as it once might have been that the leading star of Scandinavian food culture in America, Marcus Samuelsson, has his roots in Ethiopia. He grew up on Sweden's west coast, and his Swedish is perfect, albeit laced with a hefty Göteborg dialect; he enjoys time in the forest, picking wild mushrooms and berries; he truly enjoys the salty aspect of Scandinavian food; and he likes the simplicity of Nordic design. He plays soccer as often as he can, these days in Central Park, and possesses that genuinely Scandinavian trait of not letting anything go to waste -- a frugality he picked up from his grandma in the kitchen while forming his first ideas on cooking. Marcus, linguistically and cultura...

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. XVIII Num. 13, Septembre 2005
• News

• On the ball? Five years after the successful bid to stage the 2008 EuroPean football championships with neighbouring Austria, Switzerland is finally waking up to the fact that one of the world's biggest sporting events is just around the corner. So how ready are the Swiss to put on a memorable soccer party, and what challenges still remain?

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Two recent events have helped focus the public's attention on the immediacy of Euro 2008, one requiring plenty of planning an...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2008, Avril 2008

• NEW COACH FOR NATIONAL SOCCER TEAM.

The Argentinian Enzo Trossero has signed a two year contract as the new coach of the Swiss National Soccer Team starting 10 July. Trossero, who was ve...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2000, Mai 2000

• Nations and technology getting bolder.

... the highest level of security: the 2014 Soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic games. In the fight...

• Armada International
• Vol. 35 Num. 3, Juin 2011

• Not All Cottages Are Red

In a Sweden where one in five citizens has roots in another part of the world, it is not as surprising as it once might have been that the leading star of Scandinavian food culture in America, Marcus Samuelsson, has his roots in Ethiopia. He grew up on Sweden's west coast, and his Swedish is perfect, albeit laced with a hefty Göteborg dialect; he enjoys time in the forest, picking wild mushrooms and berries; he truly enjoys the salty aspect of Scandinavian food; and he likes the simplicity of Nordic design. He plays soccer as often as he can, these days in Central Park, and possesses that genuinely Scandinavian trait of not letting anything go to waste-a frugality he picked up from his grandma in the kitchen while forming his first ideas on cooking. Marcus, linguistically and culturally...

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. 18 Num. 14, Septembre 2005
• News

• What's on this month: Switzerland Tourism.MySwitzerland.com.

...27.12.2008: Snow Soccer . Info: www.snowsoccer.ch . Verbier . 13-14.12.200...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2008, Avril 2008

• 10 questions with Carlo Janka.

... to sleep late, have brunch and then watch soccer on TV . When I'm not skiing, I am .. . practising ...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2011, Janvier 2011

• Urs Althaus: a model of success.

... leading role of Aristoteles, a Brazilian soccer player, in the 1984 film Allenatore nel pallone. H...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2010, Février 2010

• Where life is worth living.

... and indoor climbing facilities; beach soccer and ice skating at the Deutweg sports complex, and...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2011, Janvier 2011