You just can't help but feel bad for Marco Streller. For the third time in his otherwise fabulous national team career, he will miss a major tournament with injury. Ottmar Hitzfeld will be hoping his front line can deal without him and has shown faith in Albert Bunjaku to fill the void, selecting him ahead of promising youngster Nassim Ben Khalifa. Time will tell whether this more conservative move will serve us. For myself, I think a young and unpredictable element might be just what we need in a very tough group, but we'll just have to see.

Here's the squad:

Goalkeepers:
Diego Benaglio (VfL Wolfsburg)
Johnny Leoni (FC Zurich)
Marco Woelfli (Young Boys Berne)

Defenders: Mario Eggimann (Hanover 96)
Stephane Grichting (Auxerre)
Stephan Lichtsteiner (Lazio)
Philippe Senderos (Arsenal)
Ludovic Magnin (FC Zurich)
Steve Von Bergen (Hertha Berlin)
Reto Ziegler (Sampdoria)

Midfielders:
Tranquillo Barnetta (Bayer Leverkusen)
Valon Behrami (West Ham United)
Gelson Fernandes (St Etienne)
Benjamin Huggel (FC Basel)
Marco Padalino (Sampdoria)
Pirmin Schwegler (Eintracht Frankfurt)
Goklan Inler (Udinese)

Forwards: Eren Derdiyok (Bayer Leverkusen)
Alexander Frei (FC Basel)
Blaise Nkufo (Twente Enschede)
Hakan Yakin (FC Luzern)
Xherdan Shaqiri (FC Basel)
Albert Bunjaku (Nuiernburg)

There have been some less-than-ideal results in the warmup friendlies, but coach Hitzfeld is determined not to let it worry him. Drawing 1-1 with defending champions Italy could be seen as a decent result, but the way they did it has been seen as pretty uninspiring. "I am happy with the attitude of my players and the important thing is that we will be ready in South Africa," he said. Let's hope he's right - otherwise the monster that is Spain could make the 1-0 defeat to Costa Rica look fairly respectable.