Kloten versus Bern, that was the duel between two teams on Saturday, for which the young season hasn’t brought them much apart from worries.
Tristan Scherwey shot SCB to victory.
On one side was Kloten, who was promoted without a win and lost 7-0 to substitute goalie Sandro Zurkirchen in Davos on Friday.
A club whose sports director Patrik Bärtschi had resigned from the job before the start of the season and then said in a TV interview that the wording used by the club in the media release, according to which he wanted to “reorientate himself”, was not true. The gazettes wrote of a lost power struggle. However, it can be heard that the former national player Bärtschi was worn down by the fact that President Mike Schälchli interfered too often in sporting matters.
One who knows the scene well calls the busy Schälchli a “micromanager” with whom it is difficult to work and who, above all, places people around him who he knows from the event industry. Just like the new CEO Anjo Urner. Most recently, Barbara Kälberer, the newly hired Head of Communications and Marketing, left the club during the probationary period.
The SCB had initial difficulties
On the other hand, the proud SCB, upgraded in the summer with the three national players Joël Vermin, Romain Loeffel and the previously invisible Sven Bärtschi for some money. It started off with three defeats, including a 5-1 loss in Ambri. The initial difficulties are understandable, the most important individual player Dominik Kahun is missing injured, the newly signed aggressive leader Chris DiDomenico first had to serve two game suspensions.
But the pressure on the controversial coach Johan Lundskog is already noticeable again, the Swede does not have too many advocates in Bern. After all, they are powerful, his most important supporter is the CEO Raeto Raffainer, whose word is considered gospel in the SCB.
Nevertheless, Lundskog will only be holdable if the team finds its way to some extent. In Kloten, SCB should have picked up three points after beating the Lakers 3-2 24 hours earlier, but the much stronger Bernese failed either because of the formidable Kloten goalkeeper Juha Metsola or because of their own inability. It was only in extra time that Tristan Scherwey shot SCB to victory – he benefited from a major mistake by Metsola, of all things.