Switzerland: Benaglio Is Switzerland’s First-Choice Goalkeeper at EURO 2008

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Diego Benaglio and his team are lucky that football is something beyond language barriers: Benaglio speaks Swiss-German, while his team-mates at VfL Wolfsburg speak high German.

However, despite of this language difficulty, the Swiss-Italian goalkeeper managed to have an extraordinary spring since joining VfL Wolfsburg in winter. “A determining factor in my transfer was definitely the fact that I had already worked with Felix Magath,” Diego Benaglio said, reminding the fact that Felix Magath coached him also between 2002 and 2005 at VfB Stuttgart.

“The three years at Stuttgart really shaped me and my game. The goalkeeper training was very good, but I matured as a person as well,” Benaglio also said.
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