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With 42 goals, Alex Frei is still the record scorer in the Swiss national team. None of the current national players comes anywhere near him. Frei wants to know why Switzerland lacks a real top clipper.
In an interview with the «Sport image» The 41-year-old raves about BVB striker Erling Haaland and tries to explain why Switzerland lacks a striker with the young Norwegian class. “That’s a real problem. We don’t have a Swiss top scorer at the top international level, “says Frei and adds:” We make mistakes in our training. “
Failure in training? “Strikers are types of players who, in a positive sense,“ have a part in their heads ”, as we Swiss say, so they are a bit crazy,” explains the Wil coach. “The tendency in the youth training centers is unfortunately to prevent the egocentric, extroverted and egoistic traits and to set too many guard rails.”
Freely, more “types” would like to be what he himself was as a player. Apparently, he does not see the current Nati attackers in this category. Frei: «Of course nobody should go nuts and harm their team. But strikers, like goalkeepers, are idiosyncratic people and they sometimes need other freedoms. “
With 42 goals from 84 international matches, Alex Frei is the most accurate player in the history of the Swiss national team. The closest to him is Kubilay Türkyilmaz (34 goals, 62 games). The current Nati strikers Haris Seferovic (19 goals, 70 games), Breel Embolo (4 goals, 40 games) and Mario Gavranovic (10 goals, 26 games) lag far behind. The top scorer in Vladimir Petkovic’s squad is Xherdan Shaqiri with 22 goals from 86 games.
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