Between 1992 and 2004, Pfadi Winterthur shaped Swiss handball for twelve years. The Eulach townspeople had won nine championship titles back then, seven between 1992 and 2002 thanks to a superstar from South Korea – Jae-Won Kang.
Now, 17 years after the last title coup, things are finally working again for the Pfader. And again, alongside numerous Swiss national team players, it is a big name from abroad that makes Winterthur’s tenth championship triumph possible. The Serb Rastko Stojkovic, who will be 40 years old on July 12th.
He had actually finished sport two years ago and built an office supplies business with his wife in Belgrade. See you in March. Then his best friend Goran Cvetkovic calls him – assistant coach at Pfadi, the boss from next season – and makes the sport palatable to him again. Stojkovic does his love service to Cvetkovic – comes and scores 125 goals in 19 games for the scouts. Eight of them yesterday in the 25:23 victory in the third playoff final game against the Kadetten Schaffhausen. Against the opponent, who went down 0: 3 in four payoff finals – thanks to Stojkovic, the final balance is now reversed. And in addition to his international collection of titles, there is Switzerland, along with Serbia, Poland and Belarus