After Yverdon, immediately YB?: Rappi coach David Sesa must put the brakes on the euphoria

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Attention YB! A team with great self-confidence is waiting for you! FC Rapperswil-Jona has won its last five matches in the Promotion League and is on its way to the top. “And if we had not lost to Brühl, because we forgot a player on the scoresheet, we would have been second,” says the boss. God knows the boss is a stranger. David Sesa (50). 36-time national player and transfer billionaire. Because the player from Zurich was the most expensive transfer of a Swiss player when he went from Lecce to Napoli. It cost 16 billion liras in 2000. That’s 13 million francs today.

Rappi is suitable for promotion

Sesa has turned Rappi into a top club. The team from St. Gallen finished in fifth place last season. And if Stade Nyonnais had not received the license, Rappi would now be in the Challenge League. Ultimately they failed in the barrage against Uli Fortes Xamax Neuenburg. Maybe it will work this year, because unlike some competitors such as Cham or Brühl, Lake Zurich has a suitable stadium for the second highest division.

But first comes the game of the year. YB comes to Grünfeld. And it is already the second Super League club to embark on this journey. Yverdon didn’t like her. And players like Dimitri Volkart are already saying: “Yverdon did well in the championship. And we won. That could be the same against YB…” Rhetorical, the question?

YB is better than Man Utd…

However. With the master there will certainly be a completely different breed than with the Vaudois. You’d almost be tempted to make the little gimmick that YB is better than Manchester United. They lost 3-0 to Manchester City. YB “only” 1:3. Does Sesa get his boys excited with this photo? The coach: says laughing: “You don’t need a photo when YB comes. Everyone is motivated to the core. On the contrary, I have to tone down the euphoria a bit.” But it turns out: Rappi is not afraid. Sesa: «No. We are giving it full throttle. But we need to know where we come from. And who’s coming? With YB you don’t even know if what they are doing is a rotation. Various positions are filled twice with equal players. No one else in Switzerland has that.”

Sesa has a positive record against YB

Sesa has been a coach in the Rose City since last summer. Before that, he was René Weiler’s loyal second for many years. Why isn’t he Servette’s assistant today? “I told René that I didn’t want to come to Japan and take responsibility for a team.” After the assistant assignments under Weiler in Brussels at Anderlecht and in Cairo at Al-Ahly, this was initially the case in Bellinzona, but in Ticino Sesa gave up bitterly. No wonder the chaos in the club is in the hands of the dubious Pablo Betancur. Rappi then immediately got in touch.

And by the way: Sesa played against YB eleven times as an active player: he probably only scored one goal. But he won four times and lost only three times. His balance sheet is therefore positive. “Then let’s see if it stays that way…” And Sesa laughs again.

Source : Blick