Basel's new coach talks about his relationship with Shaqiri

Ludovic Magnin has appeared for the first time at the media conference as the new coach of champion and winner of the Cup, Basel. At the first conference, 46-year-old also spoke of Basel's captain, Gerdan Shaqiri. He appeared in a good mood at the conference. He joked that there is no good relationship, nor bad with the star of Basel.

We don't have a very close relationship, but we certainly don't have a bad one. We were in the field together for three minutes with the Swiss representative team. He certainly won't be sad that I'm here now”, Magn said. After a joking reply, Magn said his team would build around Shaqiri.

When you have a Shaqiri calibre player, you need to build a team around him. I want him to continue as Basel played last season. The attack was incredible. However, I want to change a few little things that fit my” ideas, Magnin expressed.

In the post of coach at Basel, Magnin replaced Fabio Celestin./Periscopi/