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He has to swallow back pain, says Heiko Vogel (47) after the game. Because he hardly ever comes out before bowing. His team played “excellent” in the round of 16 second leg against Slovan Bratislava. Special thanks go to a man who is not in the spotlight: goalkeeping coach Gabriel Wüthrich. “He was the key to success,” says Vogel.
Wuthrich? The 41-year-old replaced the legendary Massimo Colomba as goalkeeper coach at FCB in the summer. Before that he worked in the youth team of FC Luzern. As a player, Wüthrich is only known to insiders: he played ten times in the Super League for Xamax, St. Gallen and FCL and played most professional matches for FC Vaduz in the Challenge League. He ended his active career in 2014.
Wüthrich spent hours preparing goalkeeper Marwin Hitz for the penalty shootout for the FCB match in Bratislava. “He did a great job and it was worth it. Everything was right,” says Hitz. Wüthrich turned up penalties that were six years old. “We went through them all,” says Hitz.
According to the keeper, he did not need a cheat sheet on the drinking bottle. Because Wüthrich showed him from the sidelines where the Slovan player was going to shoot. Hitz fends off the first two penalties, on the third he stops in the middle and almost saves him. Thanks to Wuthrich. “He’s a freak, in a positive sense,” says Vogel about his goalkeeping coach. Anyway: the entire coaching team, which incidentally all came to FCB together with Alex Frei last summer, is doing a fantastic job.
Work that pays off: Hitz’ penalty parades not only flush FCB to a European Cup round of 16 for the fourth time in this millennium, but also a million francs in the parched club coffers. There is so much in the Conference League to get into the eighth finals.
In addition, FCB will again be the only team in the spring to hoist the Swiss cross in the European Cup. Or to say with Taulant Xhaka: “The other Super League clubs should just thank us, because we get the points for the UEFA ranking.”
Source : Blick
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