In the kingdom of the blind, the Borgnes are kings. In Super League, the team that has a minimum of real talent becomes champion. Limpid.
FC Basel has been back to the summit of Swiss football since Sunday. A twenty-first title, the first since 2017. It must be said: this is good news for our championship.
Even if it is not necessary to veil the face: Basel is a champion without great glory, without presence. It is indisputable because it has been a little better and above all much more constant than the others in recent weeks. It was enough in this Super League season to forget quickly. Rarely in recent years we will have compiled so much mediocrity.
So, all in all, it must be said that there was no more acceptable champion than these Rhineans. And we can rule it with great simplicity: it is the premium with talent. In Shaqiri, therefore. To the few others (Traoré, Otele, Avdullahu). A handful of players above the lot allow you to make a lot of differences from here.
Respect for Europe
The other reasons are less due to what Basel FC has achieved than what it is. FCB is an acronym, it’s an image, it is a continental reputation. It is a club which has never really neglected Europe, and which has always seemed to do it a little more than what its true means presupposed.
The campaign until the Conference League semi-finals two years ago is there to attest to it. Young Boys, because it was he who has dominated Swiss football in recent years, has never testified to the same respect for these mid-week meetings.
And then, Basel, it’s not just a club. It is a city. A city where football is central. Where we vibrate in rotblau. The atmosphere at the Barfüsseplatz on Sunday evening has something traditional, and taking its bearings there, the FCB can rethink what made its success.
In other words, this title must be the prelude to sporting stability, already, but also of a found identity. Either young people to train and reveal, in particular. Because Basel gave too much to Swiss football at the beginning of this century to be satisfied with this single title.
