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Associated Press
4 hours ago
- General
- Associated Press
Euro 2025 host Switzerland loses to Norway in stadium close to Alpine rockslide village
SION, Switzerland (AP) — A full rehearsal for their opening day game at the Women's European Championship saw host Switzerland beaten 1-0 by Norway on Tuesday in the UEFA Nations League. The game was played at Sion, a Euro 2025 host venue about 40 kilometers (25 miles) down the River Rhone from the valley where the village of Blatten was destroyed last week by a landslide of rock and ice. The stadium observed a minute's silence before kickoff. On July 2, Switzerland will host Norway in the prime-time game on opening day of the Euros — likely not forgetting the manner of the only goal Tuesday in the fourth minute. When a Swiss defender purposely put a deflated ball out of play, Norway took the throw-in with a fresh ball and started an attack. That quickly led to a shooting chance for Vilde Boe Risa to score. 'It's not even a goal, because they haven't played with 'fair play,'' Switzerland midfielder Smilla Vallotto told broadcaster RTS. 'That motivates me for the next match. It's really not possible that they did that.' The young Swiss team coached by Pia Sundhage, who led the United States to Olympic gold medals in 2008 and 2012, is now relegated from the Nations League top tier in a group won by France, which beat Iceland 2-0 Tuesday. After hosting Norway in Basel in four weeks' time, Switzerland will play Iceland in Bern and Finland in Geneva. ___ AP soccer:
BBC News
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
What is your Villa moment of the season?
When do you know you belong somewhere?The Champions League fixture list confirmed Villa were not imagining it - the first win, in the chocolate-box scenery of Bern, seemed almost too easy. Was this all for real? Villa had made it to this level all right, but now they needed to really a little over 10 minutes to go in their second game, against Bayern Munich, it happened. It was all the more sensational because only one man, Jhon Duran himself, could possibly have known what was going to happen. And yet, even he could not have realised as he ran on to Pau Torres' pass, how his life was about to change. With Manuel Neuer – Manuel Neuer! – advancing towards him, barely taking a glance at the target, Duran hooked the ball around a defender, over Neuer, into the North Stand Park exploded. Duran, now instantly famous all over Europe, stood as if modelling for his own statue while his team fell around him. As it happened, it took a moment of utter football fantasy to make Aston Villa's Champions League status feel like Villa's end-of-season awards, John McGinn won the prize for goal of the season. "I feel a bit of a fraud to be honest, because that's not the best goal of the season," he said when handed the award."I just want to thank Jhon Duran for going..."Tune into The West Midlands Football Phone-In from 18:00 on weeknights
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Swiss Exports to US Plummet in First Month of Trump Tariffs
(Bloomberg) -- NY Private School Pleads for Donors to Stay Open After Declaring Bankruptcy UAE's AI University Aims to Become Stanford of the Gulf NYC's War on Trash Gets a Glam Squad Pacific Coast Highway to Reopen Near Malibu After January Fires Swiss exports to the US plummeted in April, showing the fallout from President Donald Trump's tariff policy. Foreign sales, adjusted for seasonal swings, declined 36% from March, the customs office in Bern said in an e-mailed statement. Imports from the world's biggest economy fell 15%. That resulted in a trade surplus of 4.6 billion francs ($5.6 billion) — the second largest since at least 2010. The data come after two months of strong export numbers to that country, suggesting frontloading took place by exporters seeking to get goods into US ports in time to avoid the impact of tariffs that Trump had already threatened to impose on April 2. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that Switzerland is 'at the front of the queue' for a trade deal. The country initially was hit with 31% tariffs before Trump announced the suspension of many of his global levies to a uniform 10%. Switzerland's total trade numbers also saw a drop in exports and imports, bringing its overall surplus to a record 6.3 billion francs. (Updates with trade surplus in second paragraph.) Mark Zuckerberg Loves MAGA Now. Will MAGA Ever Love Him Back? Why Apple Still Hasn't Cracked AI Inside the First Stargate AI Data Center How Coach Handbags Became a Gen Z Status Symbol AI Is Helping Executives Tackle the Dreaded Post-Vacation Inbox ©2025 Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg
27-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Swiss Exports to US Plummet in First Month of Trump Tariffs
Swiss exports to the US plummeted in April, showing the fallout from President Donald Trump's tariff policy. Foreign sales, adjusted for seasonal swings, declined 36% from March, the customs office in Bern said in an e-mailed statement. Imports from the world's biggest economy fell 15%.
Belfast Telegraph
21-05-2025
- Sport
- Belfast Telegraph
Belfast Giants handed nightmare Champions League draw with three trips to Switzerland
The Elite Ice Hockey champions will travel to EV Zug, SC Bern and Lausanne in next season's competition, while Ilves of Finland, Brynas of Sweden and KalPa of Finland will visit the SSE Arena. The tournament uses a similar style to football's Champions League, with the Giants playing three teams at home and three on the road. The top 16 will progress to the knockout rounds. The six games will be played between August and October with the exact dates confirmed at a later day. Compared to the other three Swiss sides in the competition, Zug do not place their reliance on big name stars but rather a team collective when it comes to success, which they have had plenty of recently. Although in the last three seasons they have been shy on trophies, qualifying for the CHL courtesy of finishing fourth in the National League, before that they were involved in four Finals over the course of five years, winning back-to-back domestic championships in 2021 and 2022. Winger Lino Martschini has evolved into one of the deadliest Swiss forwards in the game, while Czech powerhouse Jan Kovář keeps firing the puck in at the age of 35, with Lukas Bengtsson, one of just two former NHLers in the squad, a reliable face on defence. A once-dominant force in the National League, winning five of the ten Swiss championships prior to the pandemic, Bern have struggled to replicate that form since the turn of the decade having failed to make it to even the Semi-Finals, let alone lift the trophy. Former Tampa Bay Lightning winger Waltteri Merelä will provide plenty of offence for Pasi Puistola's side, as will Victor Ejdsell, but the stars on the side are from defence where the experienced pair of Romain Loeffel and Ramon Untersander excel. Bern do have a record of being beaten in Europe by Elite League teams, too, having lost 4-2 in Nottingham back in 2017, although they have winning experience as well as they won the rematch with the Panthers in Switzerland and would double up the Cardiff Devils a year later. While the Giants likely won't get the full experience given the Swiss fans do not get excited about the CHL until the knockouts, they are headed to a world-class arena, Bern attracting the second-best average attendance in Europe of 15,821 at the PostFinance-Arena. Swiss side Lausanne will be a considerable challenge for the Giants following an impressive season that saw them finish top of the regular season standings in the National League and only just missing out on a first-ever title when they lost to ZSC Lions in the Final. Their strength lies in their netminding and in 22-year-old Kevin Pasche they have an elite talent, with Finnish hero Antti Suomela a lethal scorer at the other end of the ice, while last season they relied on the scoring prowess of Giants centre Scott Conway's cousin, Brendan Perlini, who has since moved on during the off-season. While this will be a first meeting between these two sides, Lausanne have faced Elite League opposition before, winning one and losing one against the Cardiff Devils in 2021. Belfast Giants Head Coach Adam Keefe was part of the team that conducted the draw for Europe's premier ice hockey tournament.
