SRF: That’s why Sacha Ruffier is commentating on the World Cup final

The Women’s World Cup in New Zealand and Australia is entering its final stage. Quarter-finals on FridayOn August 20 is the final. Who won the title? While only the stars know it, one thing is certain: Despite the huge popularity of the crowd, 28-year-old Calvin Stettler will not comment on the World Cup final on SRF – but the longtime commentator for Nati’s men: Sascha Ruefer.

Accompanying Stettler with expert f Rachel Renast, former Natty bassist All matches of the Swiss women. He also commented on other matches such as the opening match between New Zealand and Norway, the match between the United States and the Netherlands, or the match between South Africa and Italy. He will also comment on the quarter-finals of Colombia and England.

In the media, Stettler and co-commentator Renast were praised. From CH-Media there is the headline “Wortspielkönig, which competes with Sascha Ruefer”. “Tages-Anzeiger” blows the same trumpet: “The fact that Ruefer didn’t miss out on Women’s World Cup matches is mainly due to the entertaining duo Stettler/Rinast.”

Here’s what Sasha Rover says about Calvin Stettler

20 Minutes SRF was asked why Ruefer and not Stettler would accompany the finale on the microphone. “Sacha Rover is one of our longtime commentators and one of the most experienced. In the planning it was clear for a long time that he would commentate on the final,” explains Suzanne Schaller, SRF Sport Editor-in-Chief. » Schaller does not want to go into detail about the reasons.

However, she praises the talent of SRF, as well as his television partner: “Co-commentator Rachel Renast and commentator Calvin Stettler appropriately rated the relevant scenes, gave the viewer key information and found a nice balance between emotion, expertise and entertainment. » We are very satisfied with the performance of the duo. He says. Sasha Rover himself on request: “Calvin is a talented commentator and does his job very well.”

“Competent comments – a lot of meaningless chatter”

The SRF duet was also well received by the public. On social media, for example, it says: “Convincing Calvin Stettler and Rachel Reinast with great competence and humor. Could there be a duet for men’s national team matches?” Rinast himself also tells 20Minute about the positive feedback: “I got feedback than three or four people who are more critical of commentators.”

What doesn’t go with everyone is Stettler’s puns or when he objectively gets carried away. So it can suddenly happen that he is talking about cheese, gula, wrestling or his grandmother. “In addition to the many competent comments, there are a lot of nonsense gossip from Calvin Stettler,” she says on social media.

There is no associate expert for Sascha Ruefer

Speaking of praise, the TV duo: We asked the community for 20 minutesHow to find the common comment principle with an expert. The answer is one obvious thing. When it was voted on by more than 2,000 participants, 73 percent voted favourably.

Despite this obvious consequence: in SRF, this form is still limited to the women’s national team. Susan Schaller explained to 20 Minutes: “There are no plans to introduce a double for the men’s national team. We are very satisfied with Sascha Ruefer’s performance and therefore see no reason to change anything in the current line-up. »

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