Euro 2024 preview - Switzerland: Having scored at each of Switzerland's last five major tournaments, Shaqiri will be back and playing a key role for his country as they tackle Group A
There will eventually come a day when the same old faces don't line up for Switzerland in a major tournament, but that day isn't yet here.
And where there is Xhaka, there is Xherdan Shaqiri, the little attacker who was reportedly furious to miss out on the armband to his international team-mate but is nonetheless still a vital part of the Swiss side at the age of 32. It didn't really work out in France though, and since then Shaqiri - often seen as a bit-part player at several of the clubs he's been at - has embraced the role of being a 'designated player' at Chicago Fire in the MLS, accepting the riches that goes along with that even if he did initially claim it was something of a 'semi-retirement', even briefly losing his place in the Swiss squad as a result.
That may be tricky though, especially with lively attacker Breel Embolo only just returning from an ACL injury in April and having played just five times for Monaco all season. Fellow attacker Ruben Vargas scored just four times for Augsburg this campaign, while Steven Zuber and Renato Steffen are both the wrong side of 30.
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