GENEVA (AP) — Young Boys sealed its sixth Swiss league title in seven years by winning at Servette 1-0 on Monday to complete a late-season rally after firing coach Raphaël Wicky. Wicky, the former Chicago Fire and United States Under-17s coach, was fired in March after losing three games in a week. Under-21s coach Joël Magnin took interim charge. Young Boys will enter the revamped 36-team Champions League in the qualification playoffs round in August because Switzerland no longer has a direct entry into the main phase. Young Boys played in a group with Manchester City this season. Needing just a point at Servette in the second-to-last round, Young Boys took all three on Guinea defender Mohamed Ali Camara’s header in the 73rd minute as a severe rainstorm swept across the stadium. Young Boys moved nine points clear of second-placed Lugano which lost at Zurich 2-1. Servette is four points further back, meaning Lugano will finish runner-up and enter the Champions League in July at the second qualifying round stage. The champion from Bern has 17 Swiss league titles to tie Servette in third place on the all-time list. ___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer |
Independent UN experts say radical Saudi Arabia scholar held for years should be tried or releasedJapan, US move ahead in coReport: Welding at water slide caused huge fire in Sweden that killed one personParis garbage collectors lift strike threat ahead of Olympic GamesMarston Hefner brands Crystal Hefner a 'master manipulator' in damning attack on his father's widowKelly Clarkson calls dating 'awkward' and admits it makes her 'so nervous'Nepal's top cricket star has his 8A Swiss court sentences a former Gambian interior minister to 20 years for crimes against humanityChristina Aguilera leaves RCA Records after spending her entire 26Toronto's Spooner is out for the rest of the PWHL playoffs with a knee injury