101 Sports: Fifa World Cup: Switzerland v Ecuador The heat is on?

They backed a referendum in February to bring back strict quotas for immigration. But these restrictions, if applied retrospectively, would have deprived boss Ottmar Hitzfeld of 15 members of his 23-man World Cup squad. Remarkably, only eight of his players were not born outside of Switzerland or to foreign parents.

Immigration is the hot political potato across Europe at the moment. &, when thinking about this sensitive issue, Swiss voters might need to think about the effect on their footy team.

"Without immigrants, they would not have a team," concedes ex-Borussia Dortmund & Bayern Munich gaffer Hitzfeld.

John Hartson

"I am looking forward to this one. It should be a good game. The Switzerland manager, Ottmar Hitzfeld, really fancies this, he has got rid of all the old guard and brought in the new.

"He has the likes of Bayern Munich's Xherdan Shaqiri and Josip Drmic, who scored 17 goals for Leverkusen last season, and also Valon Behrami and Gokhan Inler, who both play for Napoli.

"Switzerland are really fancying themselves for this tournament."