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Switzerland will hit for Euro Cup

Switzerland is going to play Euro Cup 2012, making their fourth appearance in the competition. As with the three previous appearances, they did not clear the group stages. Football is one of the most popular sports in Switzerland. The Swiss Football Association was formed in 1895 and was a founder member of the sport's international governing body FIFA in 1904. The Swiss cities of Zurich and Nyon are home to FIFA and the European governing body UEFA respectively. The country played host to the 1954 World Cup and 2008 European Championship.

Switzerland has an extensive league system, with the Swiss Super League as the country's premier mens competition. There are also several cup competitions, most notably the national Swiss Cup. With a very young squad, the Swiss national team participated in the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany and were narrowly beaten by Ukraine in penalties. Switzerland co-hosted the UEFA Euro 2008 tournament together with Austria. 

They did not make further than the preliminary stage, although they did record one win against Portugal, a game in which Portugal played their B squad as they already secured the division. The best international result was probably in 1954 when Switzerland as the host reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup. They also reached the World Cup quarter-finals in 1934 as well as 1938.

In Euro Cup 2004: Qualification: Switzerland qualified for the Euro 2004 in Portugal by finishing first in group 10 of the qualifying, ahead of Russia and Ireland. Group stage: After a 0–0 draw against Croatia, they lost 0–3 against England and 1–3 against France, and thus ended on the last place in group B of the main tournament. Trivia: Johann Vonlanthen became the youngest scorer ever in the Euro championships when he equalised against France, beating the record (set only four days earlier by Wayne Rooney) by three months. In Euro Cup 2008: Qualification: Switzerland co-hosted the Euro 2008 together with Austria and was therefore automatically qualified.

Group stage: Switzerland played all matches of group A in Basel. After losing the opening game 0–1 to the Czech Republic and the second game 1–2 against Turkey, they were already eliminated from their home tournament after only two games. Consolation came from the 2–0 victory over Portugal in the final group stage game.

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Experience the Exquisiteness of achieving Nirvana on Earth with Switzerland Tourism

Switzerland is the fantasy vacation destination in Europe. The vacation makers and the newlywed couples from every nook and corner of the earth deluges to this copious natural gorgeous destination affectionately identified as the ‘heaven on Earth'. This striking nation is surrounded by Austria, Germany, Italy and France and is also harbingered as the land of Alps.

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Travelers from across the World tour this attractive nation every year. According to current news, in the first section of the year the total number of travelers & vacationers in Switzerland was 9,338,416 with 5,064,110 out of the country arrivals. Due to the high number of visitors touring this land every year, the hotels in Switzerland proffer some of the finest services to their guests at really affordable rates.

Apart from all these, Switzerland is nestling many other glorious tourists' places as well as tourism places that tender superb opportunity to take pleasure in the delightful environment of Switzerland. The realm is also very admired among adventure enthusiasts too as Switzerland present handful of audacious sport activities to take off like jungle safari, mountain biking, trekking, mountain climbing and much more. So come to this striking country by availing one from the many Switzerland Travel Packages made accessible by the travel operators and relish the most appreciated moments of your life in an enchanting way.

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