He Barcelona faces this Tuesday the Young Boys On the second day of the Champions League. A team with a long history and that was founded in 1898 by a group of young people – Young in English – university students from the University of Bern (Switzerland) with the aim of creating a rivalry with the Basel Old Boyswhich had been founded in 1894. More than 120 years later, this team is already a regular in the highest competition in European football.
Young Boys: what country is it from?
He young boys, many wonder, it is a Swiss team that plays in the First Division of the country and which, as we mentioned, has already become a regular in the Champions League, which is the highest (and best) competition in European football. The Swiss team has 17 titles Leaguebeing the first obtained in 1903 and the last in 2024, that is, last season. But not only that. The team of ‘Young Boys’ has eight Swiss Cups, a League Cup and a Super Cup.
The young university students of the University of Bern They created this team because they wanted to highlight their youthful identity. They did it by choosing the name “Young Boys” to compete with the “Old Boys”. This team that faces Barcelona today began as a small university team, but its great objective and desire was to eventually become an important entity in Swiss football.
Young Boys: a historic stadium
Wankdorf It is one of the most mythical stadiums in Swiss. And it was first created in 1925, but in 2005 it was renovated with a construction that made it the second complex with the largest capacity in the entire country, with 32,000 spectators. Stadion Wankdorf is the second largest football stadium in Switzerland, after St. Jakob-Park.
Another detail and curiosity about the stadium is that it has artificial grass, which allows the team to train every day in its stadium without problems of having to keep the grass in perfect condition. Furthermore, the Swiss club does not have a sports city. The stadium of Wankdorf It is one of the stadiums with the largest solar power plant in the world as it has a roof that has a sufficient amount of solar panels to generate 700,000 kWh.
