Switzerland names 26-player squad for 2026 World Cup, seeking to break quarterfinal curse

For the sixth consecutive time, Switzerland steps onto the world stage with a squad shaped by memory and continuity — 18 familiar faces, a captain with 144 caps, and a young midfielder playing a European final on the very morning the roster was unveiled. La Nati carries with them not only tactical preparation but the quiet weight of a 72-year absence from the quarterfinals, a threshold that has come to define the limits and longings of Swiss football. In the architecture of sport, some ambitions outlast generations, and this squad arrives in 2026 as the latest vessel for a nation's unfinished