Five YB episodes that will get under your skin

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No wonder Sunday’s stunner against FC Basel would be sold out. The neoclassical is actually always sold out. What is new is that 31,500 fans are now needed for this situation. Previously there were 31,120. The increase was made possible, among other things, by the conversion of the guest sector in Wankdorf.

YB giving herself this gift is a perfect fit for this week. The club was founded on March 14, 1898. So 125 years ago. The city of Bern did not splash and presented the anniversary with a sea of ​​flags with current and historical logos of the club.

On that day, four high school students founded FC Young Boys around Max and Oskar Schwab. The club name was based on that of the hugely popular Basel club Old Boys. His club colors black and yellow were also copied. Contribution: 30 centimes per month … from 1925 the association was called BSC Young Boys. The first game was on June 17, 1898 against FC Viktoria. YB became Swiss champion for the first time in 1903.

125 years of YB in five episodes

celebrate what? toast? No: fifteen minutes. The last 15 minutes of every YB game are ushered in by fans singing. Since. In this case sometime means summer 1901. FC Young Boys then played against Excelsior Basel at the Allmend and scored five goals in the final phase! This success gave the players enormous confidence. And from now on, the last 15 minutes will receive a special tribute.

What would no longer be appropriate today for reasons of political correctness was perfectly normal in the 1960s: a particularly sharp shot was called a “bombshot”. And someone in particular had one: Eugen “Geni” Meier! He was the maestro of the four championship titles between 1957 and 1960. Schaffhausen, who died in 2002 and played for YB for 14 years, scored an impressive 313 goals for yellow-black! 248 of them in the championship. Which, by the way, is only the second best value. Jacky Fatton, the Servette star of the 1950s, even has 307 goals. Records for eternity! In comparison, Guillaume Hoarau, the outstanding striker of the four championship titles of the YB modern era 2018 to 2021, scored 118 goals. 94 in the Super League.

In January 1961, YB is on its way to a fifth straight championship title. The gap to FCZ is two points. Four on napkin. YB had made a good reckoning recently. So coach Albert Sing’s stars, who were all amateurs, are rewarded on top of the modest cash prizes. In the form of a 30-day trip that started with a train journey from Bern to Kloten, where a DC-6 was bound for the Far East: Singapore, Hong Kong, Saigon, Colombo, Kuala Lumpur, Karachi and Cairo were the destinations . The football players covered a total of 27,000 kilometers and had to play ten matches according to the deal. The telephone travel reports attracted enormous interest. And after the return of the cracks, the footballers’ adventure, which was also recorded on celluloid, was shown in two cinemas in Bern. Movie title: «Toward the Sun». Nothing came of the fifth national title. Then-Captain Heinz Schneiter said they returned to Bern “exhausted”.

Despite two modern Champions League appearances: probably the most legendary game in YB history is that of April 15, 1959. Officially, on a rainy Wednesday, 63,000 fans in Wankdorf, which was bursting at the seams, watched the first leg of the half final against Stade Reims, the second best team in Europe behind Real Madrid at the time, with (probably all-time) World Cup record scorer Just Fontaine: 13 goals at the 1958 World Cup. But there were certainly more than 70,000 spectators in the stadium , because the inspectors let anyone who wanted to go to the stadium for five francs. This 1-0 victory thanks to a goal from Geni Meier is the most attended match in Swiss football history. In the second leg, YB has no chance in the Parc de Princes: 0:3. To reach the semi-finals, they had to advance against MTK Budapest and against the East German champions SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt. YB chronicler Charles Beuret recalls: “I have never forgotten what I saw on the great standing ramp: it was hopelessly overcrowded, packed together, and there was no room for spectators to move. With spectacular scenes on the field, the audience began to move scary. Like a cornfield it swayed up and down, back and forth. The iron railings and the barriers on the levels, which were divided into sectors, could not withstand the resistance of the crowd, they were crushed and rolled to the ground. The fact that not the slightest accident happened then borders on a miracle.”

It was salvation! It was the end of the time of humiliation, ridicule, of Veryoungboysen. A cute composition of words that sums up the failure of the Bern team so beautifully at the crucial moment (like in the 2009/10 season, when they were 13 points ahead of Basel and didn’t make it to the finish line). It is an event so important that every Bernese remembers where he was on April 28, 2018 and what he did. Like the first lunar load. First reserve goalkeeper Marco Wölfli gets a penalty kick. Then, just when you least expected it, Jean-Pierre made Nsame YB champion in the 89th minute. The first title in 32 years. The stadium shakes, it shakes to its foundations. And after the final whistle, there’s no stopping a sea of ​​YB fans who shed just as many tears of joy. A moment for eternity!

Source : Blick

Emma

I’m Emma Jack, a news website author at 24 News Reporters. I have been in the industry for over five years and it has been an incredible journey so far. I specialize in sports reporting and am highly knowledgeable about the latest trends and developments in this field.