Re: Swiss Goalkeeper Appreciation Thread

[rwo power]

Looking fantastic both inside and outside of his goal

[CBarca]

He's so good looking.

Looks almost as good as me

In my dreams

[boss]

Better congratulate Yann Sommer, not me. I'm just the messenger

LOL ! i know i know but i thought u can Conduct-Escort my Congatulation message to him as a Wonderful messenger u are then he hehhhh...(just kidding) Sincerely.

Well then..congrats to him Sommer

[SchinnerC]

Looking fantastic both inside and outside of his goal

Thought you were going to say room

[rwo power]

Now for something that really merits some proper appreciation ^^

This Sunday was the 11th competitive match in a row that Yann Sommer kept a clean sheet for FC Basel in the St.Jakobs-Park. As a matter of fact, this season (Super League, Swiss Cup, CL quali + EL), he managed to keep 19 clean sheets in 31 competitive matches.


(c) by Sacha Grossenbacher/fcb.ch

[rwo power]

Yann Sommer was the hero in the penalty shoot-out Basel vs Tottenham tonight!! He held one shot and hypnotized Adebayor to shoot another ball to meet Ramos' ball in the earth orbit.


Yann Sommer happy to hold to the 2:2 in the 2nd half

Basel is through to the EL semi final!!

[Lex]

Sommer pretended to be shit throughout the game JUST to take it to penalties so he could shine

What a stud

[rwo power]

Pfff. He wasn't sh*t. He saved quite some shots, too. The defense was sh*t.

[Lex]

Ok ok the defence was at fault for the first goal lol. Should have done better for the second, though

[rwo power]

That's true and normally he would have saved that.


Victory!!

[McAgger]

Count me in the fan club. This guy is a true stud.

[Lex]

His chiselled good looks put off Adebayor and Hundredstone

[ronalessi]

With the Victoria's Secret run-up and the venomous shot, the ball was on a successful trajectory. Then Yann Sommer raised his right hand like Jesus towards a disciple and the ball deviated away. Split heavens with the sound of his name.

[Juveman17]

Sommer

[Lex]

Did not cover himself in glory tonight

Rwo wtf happened

[Kaladin]

The GL jinx made a swift reappearance

[rwo power]

Did not cover himself in glory tonight
Rwo wtf happened

*sighs* In the post match interview he said he positioned Fabian Schär wrong, thus he had problems seeing the ball correctly. He was pretty down and said that of course this goal was on him

[rwo power]

Yann Sommer won the Swiss Golden Player Award for Best Goalkeeper 2013 after he already received it in 2012 and 2010, too. The Swiss Golden Player Award is given to the best football and ice hockey players in Switzerland and it is voted by the player organisations of Swiss football and Swiss ice hockey.


Award ceremony: http://vimeo.com/80829261

Swiss Golden Player Award homepage: http://goldenplayer.ch/

[rwo power]

As Diego Benaglio and Marwin Hitz are Swiss, I thought I should publish the kicker.de ranking of the Bundesliga GKs after the "Hinrunde" 2013/14 in this thread, too:

Spoiler:

Currently there are rumours that after Marco Wölfli's injury, Ottmar Hitzfeld might elect Marwin Hitz as new 3rd GK for the Swiss NT behind Diego Benaglio and Yann Sommer - although Roman Bürki of course should be on the shortlist, too.

[rwo power]

Squee! Yann Sommer just was elected in the Swiss Super League Dream Team - so he was voted the top GK of the RSL.

[Kick]

Congrats to him.

[BarrileteCosmico]

Sommer to Borussia to replace Ter Stegen rumors gaining momentum.

[rwo power]

Yeah. Max Eberl is in an interview on TV atm, and he has a broad grin on the face when asked about the possibility of Yann Sommer following Marc-André ter Stegen, albeit he refuses to say anything definite. ^^

Sky claims that things are practically fixed, Yann Sommer gets a 4 year contract and he costs around 10 mio Euros transfer fee. (Actually the transfer fee varies between media from 6 mio Euros up to 10 mio Euros.)


Destination BMG <3

Spoiler:

[rwo power]

So - with Roman Bürki signing up for SC Freiburg, that means that the 4 top GKs of Switzerland now all play in the Bundesliga. After Diego Benaglio in Wolfsburg and Marwin Hitz in Augsburg, Yann Sommer got the Nr.1 job in Mönchengladbach and now Roman Bürki will replace Oliver Baumann in Freiburg. Not bad for a country like Switzerland!


Yann Sommer sad to leave Basel

[rwo power]

This thread definitely merits an update after Diego Benaglio's retirement from international football.

So here are the three current goalies of the Swiss Nati:


Nr.1: Yann Sommer (BMG) <3


Nr.2: Roman Bürki (SC Freiburg)


Nr.3: Marwin Hitz (FC Augsburg)

Source: http://www.20min.ch/sport/fussball/#showid=106914&index=0

[rwo power]

Yann Sommer has top stats in most of the GK relevant areas in the Bundesliga (according to the BL database as quoted by bild.de) so far:

Save percentages:

Manuel Neuer (Bayern) - 87,50%
Yann Sommer (Gladbach) - 87,10 %
Loris Karius (Mainz) - 82,86 %
Timo Horn (Köln) 82,86 %
Kevin Trapp (Frankfurt) - 77,42 %
Roman Bürki (Freiburg) - 72,97 %
Marwin Hitz (Augsburg) - 72,73 %
Ron-Robert Zieler (Hannover) - 72,41 %
Oliver Baumann (Freiburg) - 70,00 %
Ralf Fährmann (Schalke) - 68,42 %
Diego Benaglio (Wolfsburg) - 66,67 %
Bernd Leno (Leverkusen) - 65,63 %
Roman Weidenfeller (Dortmund) - 64,29 %
(Swiss goalies in bold)

Then he supposedly has the highest number of caught crosses with 17 - even more than Manuel Neuer (unfortunately the article doesn't give Neuers exact number there - gotta check if I can find it - the stats at bundesliga.com differ completely and give "caught crosses" at 11 for Sommer and 3 for Neuer, but somehow the number for Neuer sounds pretty unrealistic). Too bad that the Bundesliga DB is fully commercial and one needs to pay them hefty fees for the exhaustive stats.

Another stat I find surprising is that Sommer supposedly catches 60% of the balls aimed at him, while Neuer only catches about 50%.

Source: http://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/yann-sommer/schon-liga-spitze-38077052.bild.html

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