Lugano loses cup final against YB: Steffen and Croci-Torti laugh despite bitter defeat

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It’s hard to lose a fight like that. You contributed as much to the spectacle as the winner. But “The Winner Takes It All!” One of the Luganesi even has tears in his eyes: goalkeeper Amir Saipi. Because with his buck, the lost air duel against Jean-Pierre Nsame far outside the five, the game is sent in the wrong direction for Lugano.

Another laughs anyway. The medal hangs around the neck of Lian, the five-year-old son of Lugano star Renato Steffen. medal gone. Then she has a young fan, like José Mourinho after the Europa League final? “No no. Lian doesn’t understand that very well yet. He wanted to know why I got a medal when I lost. So I gave it to him. And when I see how much fun he has with it, you have to smile. Even when you’re defeated you realize there are other things that make you happy.”

“You can’t have a better life as a footballer”

Steffen can’t quite resist a comment to the fans in the interview. The Lugano Tifosi – about 10,000 are said to have traveled to Wankdorf – vociferously supported the Bianconeri. An atmosphere that the team has never really experienced at home in Ticino. “I’m still looking for those viewers here in the Cornaredo,” says Steffen with a wink.

For the ex-YBler, who made the game really exciting again with his 2:3, the break is now short. The national meeting is already next Saturday. “And then in Tessin. I have a short trip there. And then the two games in Andorra and against Romania. Two highlights. The second in a packed stadium in Lucerne. You can’t have it better as a footballer.” Unless you become a cup winner…

Croci-Torti is enthusiastic about Bottani

And another one was set up. Mainly out of pride! “We almost beat this great team,” said Croci-Torti. “It lacked so little.” He shows a very small hole between index finger and thumb.

Actually. It was a Grande Lugano on this early summer Sunday. Especially in the second half with Mattia Bottani coming in. Croci-Torti: “Unfortunately he didn’t have his legs the whole game because we were a better team with him.”

But he is proud of his boys, who were not destroyed by the two goals given. “Only in the aerial duels were we inferior. That was probably the crucial difference. Despite everything, it was perhaps the best game since I’ve been a coach.”

The YB fans applauded the eventual loser. In any case, a much more intelligent gesture from the Bern corner than shouting down before the game and ignoring the national anthem.

Source : Blick