Bhutan And Swiss Soccer Match

Football (soccer) is one of the favourite sports in Bhutan. People enjoy playing and watching it. Since the introduction of western education football has become a part of a school co-curricular activities.

On September 27, 2009 a friendly match was played between the Bhutan national team and the visiting Swiss team.

The match was not as expected. The visiting team was weak and the match one sided. Initially the Bhutanese team in nervousness could hardly tackle the ball. Their moral booster was Passang 's (striker) easy gole in 20 minutes of the first half. With 1-0 lead the Bhutanese team had full control of the game. Then a succession of goles were scored by the Bhutanese team. Bhutan won the match with 5-0 lead.

Few years back Bhutan and Monserrat the last two FIFA ranked countries played a similar match and Bhutan come out victorious thus climbing the FIFA rank.

Below are some pictures from today's event:


Swiss team spectators


Match in progress


Bhutanese team


Army band