The last game of the 2014/2015 season is held on Friday 29. May 2015, at home against FC St. Gallen. Here you can follow the events via time lapse and images with a farewell celebration, unprecedented in Swiss Football.
The last game of the 2014/2015 season is held on Friday 29. May 2015, at home against FC St. Gallen. Here you can follow the events via time lapse and images with a farewell celebration, unprecedented in Swiss Football.
(Translated by Thomas Snaith)
20.00h: St.Jakob Park is nearly full. Everybody is waiting for the last FCB appearance in the Raiffeisen Super League 2014/2015. Sadly it is also the last league fixture for Marco Streller.
20.03: The new home shirt for next season is presented and FCB will be playing in these shirts later on.
20.05: Marco Streller´s good bye ceremony beginns. Bernhard Heusler grabs the microphone at 20.08: " A player with a red and blue heart which is in the right place, will be playing his last league fixture of his professional career tonight. You are one of us."
20.08: Marco Streller enters the stadium and the supporters applaud their hero. The whole squad is standing and a goose bumps atmosphere is felt throughout St. Jakob Park. As a farewell gift, the FCB- Captain receives a shirt with the names of the many goal keepers he beat throughout his career. Streller scored a total of 199 goals in his professional career.
FC Basel 1893 - FC St. Gallen 29.05.2015 Raiffeisen Super League Saison 2014/15 Runde 36: Verabschiedung von Marco Streller
20.17: Marco Streller starts his emotional farewell speech, letting out a few tears in the process. This was a good bye ceremony, the like of which has probably never been seen before in Swiss football history.
20.28: Both teams enter the pitch. For FCB, this match was all about the departure of Marco Streller, but for St. Gallen this fixture was all about the possible UEFA Europa League qualification.
20.31: Referee Stephan Studer signals the. This is his last fixture of his 12 year career as a ref.
20.48: GOAAAAL! Marco Streller scores his 200th goal of his career. 1:0! A great pass by Walter Samuel enabled Streller to bypass Mario Mutch, then beat keeper Marcel Herzog in a one against one situation. This is the first time Streller has ever beaten Herzog.
21.01: Marco Mathys scores with his head after a freekick by Marco Aratore. 1:1.
21.08: St. Gallen´s first substitution: Goran Karanovic is replaced by Dzengis Cavusevic.
21.09:Danijel Aleksic scores a breath taking goal, making the scoreline 2:1 for FC St. Gallen. Aleksic scores from a long distance free kick. The shot didn´t seem unstoppable.
21.18: : Half time. It was an eventful first half. If Sousa´s team want to say good bye to Streller with a victory, they need to improve in the second half.
21.35: The second half begins. Yannis Tafer is replaced by Geoffroy Tréand. FCB continue unchanged.
21.39: Goaaaal! Great goal by Walter Samuel. Luca Zuffi´s corner was struck by Walter Samuel´s diving header; unstoppable for Herzog. This was Samuel´s first goal in red and blue.
21.44: What a game. St.Gallen score again, to once again take the lead Ex-FCB youth player Marco Aratore scores for the visiting team.
21.46: Paulo Sousa´s first substitution of the game. Davide Callà is replaced by Breel Embolo.
21.54: Paulo Sousa´s second substitution. Matias Delgado is replaced by Mohamed Elneny. Stadium announcement: 33´404 Supporters currently in St. Jakob Park. Shortly after, St. Gallen substitution: Danijel Aleksic is replaced by Albert Bunjaku.
22.07: Goaal! Luca Zuffi scores the equaliser. Long distance shot with his weaker foot, 3:3.
22.12: Marco Streller leaves the pitch; big applause, fireworks and a spectacular choreography from the Muttenzerkurve as he is replaced by Albian Ajeti.
FC Basel 1893 - FC St. Gallen 29.05.2015 Raiffeisen Super League Saison 2014/15 Runde 36: Pokalübergabe an den FC Basel 1893
22.41: Marco Streller lifts the trophy into the sky. FCB are Swiss champions for the 18th time in club history and celebrate on the pitch. A shower of golden confetti rains down from the sky.
23.15: The celebrations in the stadium slowly come to an end and continue in the centre of town.
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