Published21 August 2022, 09:42
Football“In Gland, I had been rejected by the Swiss U15 team”
Ludovic Magnin and Lausanne-Sport travel to the Coast on Sunday (3 p.m.). For an outrageously unbalanced but necessarily special first round of the Swiss Cup.
Ludovic Magnin will keep a close eye on the “little” FC Gland.
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When you give a pole to Ludovic Magnin, there is rarely reason to be disappointed with the way he seizes it. The question of the week was to know what football memories linked the Lausanne-Sport coach to Gland. Knowing that his career quickly led him to leave the regional fields for the lairs of the Bundesliga. “I surely came there as a junior with Assens or Echallens. I don’t really know, it’s all vague. That’s all? No. “The first thing that comes to mind is that selection game for the U15 national team. A mixed memory. I had scored, I was happy, but I had not been retained”, smiles today the one who was then playing in midfield.
It is therefore in Gland, around thirty years following this episode, that the LS is expected this Sunday followingnoon (3 p.m.). His host is particularly impatient and has preferred to trade his Tuesday evening training for an petanque tournament to ease the pressure a little, Almost every FCG player has a story that binds him to the canton’s flagship club, and the Challenge League resident knows that he will have to prove himself worthy of this image of big brother. “Maybe. But we will above all not forget to pass the turn”, reframes Ludovic Magnin.
Aldin Turkes: it’s coming soon, but not for Sunday
It’s the essence of a game like this. We must distinguish between the promised party and the pure sporting operation. “I hope to have a nice Sunday. They are not numerous, but all my acquaintances on the Coast assured me that they would come to the match. Still, for us, who don’t chain English weeks like others, this is our meeting of the week. This is another step in our progress. So there is no question of rotating the workforce or distributing gifts. The message is clear, it must be seen as a form of respect. The 2nd league team will not be taken lightly.
However, there was a theory. It said that a first round of the Swiss Cup once morest a sixth division team might look like an ideal opportunity to revive Aldin Turkes, almost two years following the start of an unending convalescence. “For Aldin, it becomes clearer. He passed several tests once more this week. The results are expected in the coming days. Which means it’s a little early for this weekend, ”replied his coach. Who has no other ambitions than to take the first step towards a trophy he won in 2018 with Zurich.
“In Gland, in a selection match for the U15 national team, I scored, I was happy, but I was not selected.”
