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The record-holder of the Swiss national team and goalkeeper in the World Cup, Pascalis Zuberbühler, has joined the team. The club announced this information on Friday.
"West Bromwich Albion", which finished next to last in the national championship in May and dropped out of the Premier League, reports that the former player has signed a two-year contract with the club.
P. Zuberbühler kept the "dry" national team goal for 6 hours and 30 minutes in the final stage of the World Cup in Germany, and the Swiss team became the first team in history to be eliminated from the tournament without conceding a single goal in the game.
Switzerland played 0-0 in the first group stage, it turned out later, with one of the finalists, the French team, later won 2-0 against the South Korean and Togolese teams and progressed to the next stage, where after extra time, the result was 0-0, but in the penalty shootout their opponent Ukraine performed better.
The 35-year-old goalkeeper P. Zuberbühler started his career in 1992 at the "Zurich" team, where he spent 7 seasons, later played for the "Basel" team, with which he became the Swiss champion in the 2004 and 2005 seasons, the Leverkusen "Bayer", "Aarau" teams.
"West Brom" also added that they rejected the request of the forward Zoltan Gera to be transferred to another club.
