Young Boys seals 6th Swiss soccer league title in 7 years after rallying from firing coach Wicky
Release time：2024-05-21 17:51:37 Source：World Weaver news portal
GENEVA (AP) — Young Boys sealed its sixth Swiss league title in seven years by winning at Servette 1-0 on Monday to complete a late-season rally after firing coach Raphaël Wicky.
Wicky, the former Chicago Fire and United States Under-17s coach, was fired in March after losing three games in a week. Under-21s coach Joël Magnin took interim charge.
Young Boys will enter the revamped 36-team Champions League in the qualification playoffs round in August because Switzerland no longer has a direct entry into the main phase. Young Boys played in a group with Manchester City this season.
Needing just a point at Servette in the second-to-last round, Young Boys took all three on Guinea defender Mohamed Ali Camara’s header in the 73rd minute as a severe rainstorm swept across the stadium.
Young Boys moved nine points clear of second-placed Lugano which lost at Zurich 2-1. Servette is four points further back, meaning Lugano will finish runner-up and enter the Champions League in July at the second qualifying round stage.
The champion from Bern has 17 Swiss league titles to tie Servette in third place on the all-time list.
___
AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer
- Previous：Revealed: Brit tourist, 19, subjected to sex attack in Majorca 'was gang
- Next：Four people killed in a house explosion in southwestern Missouri
Related articles
- Hollywood star Shia LaBeouf is spotted on the streets of Gavin and Stacey's hometown Barry
- NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
- Swedish appeals court rules space rock should stay with the owner of the property where it landed
- Punxsutawney Phil and wife Phyllis are parents of 2 babies
- Dodgers acquire pitcher Yohan Ramírez from Mets for cash
- Posts share synthetic image of Ukrainian drone attack as real
- A California dog missing since the summer is found in Michigan
- No joke: UK comedian told to remove hot dog from subway poster over junk food ban
- Why US Catholics are planning pilgrimages in communities across the nation
- A new declaration in Mexico gives 19 cats roaming the presidential palace food and care fur
- Rangers are undefeated at .500 to keep World Series champs from a losing record with Bochy
- US measles cases are up in 2024. What's driving the increase?
- More than six in 10 US abortions in 2023 were done by medication
- Lego head mugshots add to California's debate on policing and privacy
- Election 2024: Biden and Trump bypassed the Commission on Presidential Debates
- Earthquake now eclipse, Yankees play ball amid natural phenomena
- Coalition's first budget to be unveiled on 30 May
- What we know about Kate Middleton's cancer diagnosis
- Saudi Arabia is going to sponsor the WTA women's tennis rankings under a new partnership
- Drug overdoses reach another record in 2022, CDC says
Random recommendation