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![Lions President Walter Frey celebrated his first title with the ZSC Lions in 2000 together with Simon Schenk (right) and CFO Fritz Eichenberger (left).]()
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Lions President Walter Frey celebrated his first title with the ZSC Lions in 2000 together with Simon Schenk (right) and CFO Fritz Eichenberger (left).
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TOTO MARTI
![A year later, Schenk celebrates the next title with the Lions - this time Larry Huras (right) is the trainer.]()
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A year later, Schenk celebrates the next title with the Lions – this time Larry Huras (right) is the trainer.
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![Schenk hearted Morgan Samuelsson, the 2001 marksman.]()
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Schenk hearted Morgan Samuelsson, the 2001 marksman.
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Gaze sport
![Schenk listens to the words of Lions boss Frey in 2004.]()
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Schenk listens to the words of Lions boss Frey in 2004.
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Gaze sport
![Frey and Schenk assess coach Juhani Tamminen's first training in 2005.]()
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Frey and Schenk assess coach Juhani Tamminen’s first training in 2005.
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The sad news also came as a surprise to Walter Frey that his long-time companion Simon Schenk died at the age of 73 on Friday night. “I knew he had to have heart surgery,” said the ZSC Lions president. «But I didn’t expect that. It is a big loss. We all mourn Simon. »
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The former teacher had shaped three Swiss hockey institutions. His SC Langnau, with whom he became a striker in 1976, the Nati, whom he coached from 1985 to 1990 and 1995 to 1997, and the ZSC Lions, which he made great.
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Schenk and Frey had not brought ice hockey together, but politics. The Emmentaler and the Zürcher sat together for the SVP in the Nationalrat. In 1997, Schenk had to emphasize that “there was no vitamin B involved” when he became head of sports and soon became the managing director of the ZSC Lions.
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«It could have been someone from the SP»
«Simon was a very straightforward guy who stood up for his cause. It was a coincidence that we belonged to the same party. It could have been someone from the SP, »says Frey.
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The commitment of the candidate of choice turned out to be a direct hit. “When I was asked in an interview a few years ago which was my best transfer, I called Simon,” says the 76-year-old.
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At that time, the Lions were far from being the well-structured, large sports company that they are today. The waves that the merger between the financially debilitating ZSC and Freys GC had thrown in spring 1997 had not yet been smoothed out. “Schenk helped grow together, solved the tensions,” says the car importer.
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Talks in the breaks
Back then he was closer to the front, Frey said. «During the breaks, I met Simon in a small room in the old indoor stadium, where dumbbells were lying around and a couple of chairs. We discussed at eye level. Once I got him, another time he calmed me down. »
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Over the years, a “friendly cooperation” had developed between them. Even if Schenk was “not a great diplomat”, there were hardly any heated discussions between the two SVP politicians. Schenk was “someone who said a lot when he didn’t say anything,” Frey looks back. “When he was silent, you knew something was wrong.”
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“Simon was a great guy”
Already in Schenk’s second full season, the Lions surprisingly managed to take the championship title in the final against Lugano – the first in 39 years. Celebrations took place in Zurich twelve months later. And Frey remembers a mischievous statement from his clever sports manager: “Simon said to me: ‘Now we are a great management team because Morgan Samuelsson scored in the goal and not the post.'” It was the Swede who Finalissima »in Lugano in overtime. The Zurich team had previously looked like the sure loser in the 1-3 deficit in the series and coach Larry Huras was pictured with a mounted clown nose in the VIEW …
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Without Schenk, the Lions organization “could not have consolidated so quickly and built the pyramid,” Frey believes. «He was the builder. He was the right man at the right place at the right time. » And how does he describe the Emmental maker? «He was a good connoisseur of people. He could speak to everyone and found the right language. Everyone had great respect for him. You knew you could rely on him. He was a practitioner with edges. And he brought us a lot of hockey knowledge. » And the Lions boss says wistfully: «Simon was a great guy. It hurts.”
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