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A selfie here, a selfie there. Vincent Praplan fulfills all wishes in the hours after Servette’s championship title. He beams from head to toe, can’t get the smile off his face. “A day like today makes me forget everything,” he explains. Because his emotional state was completely different a year ago. The 28-year-old had just hit rock bottom and had serious doubts: “I wondered at the time why it didn’t want to anymore and why I was still doing it all.”
At that time, “Praps”, as everyone in Lower Valais calls him, was still a SC Bern player. Who has never been able to live up to expectations during his three-year stint in the federal capital. “It just didn’t fit,” he said afterwards. But he associates much worse things with Bern than personal defeats and a failed time with SCB. A personal tragedy.
Father dies after SCB match
On March 1, 2022, after a SCB match, his beloved father Gérard suffered a heart attack and stroke on his way to the car in the stadium’s underground car park. He died six days later at the age of 78. Praplan is devastated, falls into a deep hole. In Bern, that is no longer possible for him. The contract is terminated by mutual agreement. Nati’s attacker makes a new start in Geneva and signs with Servette until 2025.
This decision makes him flourish again. “From the first day I was comfortable here.” He meets a team that has only one goal from the start: to put the bucket on the dike at the end of the season. “We have now done this together and that is how we will stay connected forever.”
Siblings share the title moment with him
Praplan contributes to that too, finds his way back to his old form. In the final against Biel, he can no longer put the big accents because he injured his hand in the semi-final. But it’s still enough for a great assist to Daniel Winnik’s decisive 3:0 in Thursday’s Finalissima. “We had to grit our teeth,” he says with a smile, looking down at his taped and splinted hand, which must have kept him from playing. Therefore, Praplan cannot be an option for Patrick Fischer’s World Cup team this year.
He just wants to enjoy this magical moment with his first championship title, these beautiful feelings after the absolute rock bottom. “All my brothers and sisters are here,” he says, adding visibly moved: “It’s hard that my dad left us a year ago and can’t share this moment with us. We miss him, but he’s somewhere , looks down on us and is at least as happy as we are now.” Life sometimes has tough trials ahead of you. Praplan has experienced it firsthand: “Highs and lows are often close to each other”.
Source : Blick
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