Hitzfeld in Gspon (Sports 2011, by Alessandro Della Valle) - Swiss Press Award

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Alessandro Della Valle

Ottmar Hitzfeld, head coach of the Swiss national football team, walks with the village youth to the renovated and renamed football pitch in Gspon Staldenried VS, on Saturday, October 31, 2009. The municipality of Staldenried - in the hamlet of Gspon - is naming Europe's highest football pitch (2000 meters above sea level) the Ottmar Hitzfeld GsponArena, after the man who led Switzerland to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.