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From 0 to 100 – in eight months. EV Zug has put together a semi-professional women’s team from the start. “Right – or not at all.” CEO Patrick Lengwiler (45) wrote this credo to his club for the ‘Women & Girls Program’ project. And he keeps his word. The Zugers are wreaking havoc in the second highest women’s league, SWHL B. How good.
The players headed to the locker room of the former Swiss men’s team at the Bossard Arena. This was modernized, enlarged and somewhat adapted to the needs of women – under the leadership of captain and figurehead Lara Stadler (29). The entire team was involved in the conversion process.
And now another premiere is coming, one of many in recent weeks: the first championship home game. The bass booms from the cabin and loud music plays. The players’ competition bibs are in place. It is the same photo as in the NL dressing room opposite. Only: Stalder, Ryhner, Lutz, Mäkinen and Harju instead of Kovar, Hofmann, Martschini, Genoni and Hansson.
Get used to the professional structures
SonntagsBlick will be present when the players arrive for their home premiere. They are engrossed in their competition preparations. In the completely renovated coaching office a few meters away, head coach Daniela Diaz (41) has already completed her work with assistant coach Christoph Scherrer (32) and goalkeeping coach Franzisca Ebener (46).
Diaz has been there from hour one. “It feels like a dream,” says the former international and coach. “The fact that it is in Zug, my hometown, makes it even more special.” She and her brother Raphael (37), currently a defender at Gottéron, grew up just a few hundred meters from the ice rink. Diaz is grateful. For the opportunity to build something big here. “And for the fact that the team is so hungry.”
The players have to do that too. For many of them, the professional structures available to them are new territory. “Some people had to get used to the intensity of the training or the video analysis,” says Diaz. «We have opened many new chapters in recent months. Somehow there was almost no time to get everything set up correctly.”
Stalder’s hope for euphoria
CEO Lengwiler is also proud of what his club has achieved. Starting with sporting development, but also with marketing and sales or the organization surrounding the team and the competitions. Even before the project started, Lengwiler approached the sponsors and received a lot of positive feedback. “I may have been a bit cheeky, but even then I said either completely or not at all,” he reveals. Unbelievable: within this short time, the EVZ has set up a collaboration with more than 40 partners and a sponsorship contribution of 750,000 francs. “And many of them are committed for several years. Our journey is far from over.”
No fewer than 320 season tickets were sold for the women’s games. On Saturday, 523 paying spectators watched the 17-0 win of the Zug women against the Brandis Juniors Ladies. In addition to many goals, they will see an impressive pregame show that can compete with any NL club. Lara Stalder, five-time goalscorer: “We wanted to show what the team can do. Now we hope that the euphoria will break out.”
Source : Blick
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