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2014 soccer world cup team
profile Switzerland
About the World cup
The FIFA World Cup™ is the biggest single-event sporting
competition in the world and is contested by the senior
men's national teams from the 208 Member Associations of
FIFA. FIFA is based in Zurich, Switzerland.
The competition has been played every four years since the
inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946
when it was not held because of the Second World War.
It fulfils FIFA’s objectives to touch the world, develop the
game, and build a better future through a variety of ways.
Tournament format
The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams
competing for the title at venues within the host nation(s)
over a period of one month – this phase is often called the
Final Competition. A qualification phase, the Preliminary
Competition which currently takes place over the preceding
three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for
the tournament together with the host nation(s).
The Swiss held it in 1954
Team
The Swiss national football team (also known as the Schweitzer Nati in
German, La Nati in French, Squadra nazionale in Italian) is the
national football team of Switzerland. The team is controlled by the Swiss
Football Association.
The team's logo, ASF-SFV, represents the Swiss Football Association's initials in
Switzerland's official languages: ASFrepresents both French (Association Suisse
de Football) and Italian (Associazione Svizzera di Football), and SFV is German
(Schweizerischer Fussballverband). In Romansh, the association is abbreviated
as ASB (Associaziun Svizra da Ballape).
Its 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. They would not concede a goal until
their second group stage game in the2010 FIFA World Cup, giving up a goal in
the 74th minute against Chile, setting a World Cup Finals record for consecutive
minutes without conceding a goal.
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.
History
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The establishment of the Swiss Confederation is dated to 1 August 1291, which is celebrated
annually as Swiss National Day. Switzerland has a long history of neutrality—it has not been
in a state of war internationally since 1815—and did not join the United Nations until 2002.
There are four main languages, German, French, Italian and Romansh.
Switzerland is a confederation of 26 Cantons. There is a Federal parliament and a parliament
at Canton (similar to county) level.
The Old Swiss Confederacy was an alliance among three initial communities (cantons today)
of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden.
Bern is the capital of
Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland is famous for its ski resorts
And it agricultural land
Its banks generate € 31.0 billion
representing 6.2% of the country's GDP
Fact file
Capital city
Bern
Largest city
Zürich
Mountain range
alps
Largest lake
Lake Geneva
Smallest lake
Sucherghann sea
Longest river
Rhine 1,233 km
Shortest river
Arve 102 km
population
7.997 million (2012)
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