Will Giorgio Contini lead YB to the championship title thanks to Jogi Löw?

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• Giorgio Contini played alongside Joachim Löw in his younger years and remembers the times they spent together in the football talk Heimspiel.
• "He wasn't the classic German who folded everyone up," says Contini about Löw, to whom he owes a lot - also with regard to his coaching career: "It was an important input - also for my future as a coach."

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In July 1989, the seasoned Bundesliga professional Joachim Löw moved to Switzerland. He joined FC Schaffhausen for three years before continuing his career at FC Winterthur from summer 1992. At the same time, Giorgio Contini, 14 years his junior, also joined FCW.

In the football talk Heimspiel, the current YB coach remembers their time together very well. "I was very young, 17 or 18 years old, when I played with Jogi in Winterthur. He was captain. He talked and communicated a lot. He wasn't the classic German who would put everyone down. He was very emphatic and sometimes talked to a boy off the pitch," says Contini.

Contini on first contact

"The call from YB came during the fondue evening with the men's club"

Joint move to Frauenfeld

Löw also took on Contini and promoted the young striker to player-coach at FC Frauenfeld from the summer of 1994. "When I had to leave Winterthur, he took me with him to Frauenfeld. And he told me that I had to have fun," says Contini.

It worked and gave Contini's career new impetus: "It really was the case that I had fun and scored my goals. Then I came back to St.Gallen via Baden - and two years later I found my way to becoming a professional after all."

Contini also learned from their time together what makes a good coach. "For the first time, I had the feeling that it's important for a coach to like you and talk to you," says Contini, adding: "That was an important input - also for my future as a coach."