Switzerland
A team from the Swiss border city Lugano began participating in the AFL Italia league in 2010. From this team developed a Swiss National Team who competed in the 2010 Euro Cup hosted by AFL Italia in Parabiago, Milano, Italy on 2 October 2010.
Switzerland were defeated by England and Germany in the first two rounds, then in the third round defeated the Czech Republic. The Semi Finals for their Pool saw them compete against Scotland, who proved far too experienced for the young Swiss team, and later went on to finish 4th in the overall tournament. The Swiss national team finished 11th out of the 15 Nations competing.
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Famous quotes containing the word switzerland:
“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)